Curse of the Billy Goat
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title:
Curse of the Billy Goat
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The Curse of the Billy Goat was a sports curse that was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in 1945, by Billy Goat Tavern owner William Sianis. The curse lasted 71 years, from 1945 to 2016. During Game 4 of the 1945 World Series at Wrigley Field, Sianis's pet goat, named Murphy, was bothering other fans, and so the pair were asked to leave the stadium. Outraged, Sianis allegedly declared, "Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more", which had been interprete
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Superstition in American baseball
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Billy_Goat
date created:
2004-03-18T20:54:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:49:11Z
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