The World Series gets underway tonight in Cleveland as the Indians take on the Chicago Cubs in the best of seven series. The World Series starts in Cleveland an American League team, because the AL beat the NL in the 2016 All-Star game.

Both teams go into the series with a ‘curse‘ that fans think have prevented them from winning a World Series, or in Chicago’s case, going to a World Series in so many years.

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The Cleveland Indians played in the ‘series’ in 1995 and 1997 but lost both. The last time they won the Fall Classic was 68 years ago in 1959. Cleveland believes ‘The Rocky Colavito Curse’ is what has kept them from winning the World Series. Colavito was very popular player for the Indians and he was traded to the Detroit Tigers in 1959 and they have been carrying the curse with them ever since.

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The Chicago Cubs ‘curse’ is a little more interesting, it’s the ‘Billy Goat Curse’. Legend has it that barkeeper Billy Sianis put the curse on the Cubs when they wouldn’t allow him to bring his ‘goat’ into Wrigley Field during the 1945 World Series because other fans where complaining the goat stunk. The Cubs lost the series and it took 71 years before they got back to the series this season.

Chicago is a heavy favorites going into the series but they will have to break the ‘Billy Goat Curse’ first.

The Boston Red Sox broke the ‘Curse of the Bambino’ 12 years ago when they won their first World Series title since 1918 so anything is possible for Chicago and Cleveland.

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