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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.
The Billy Goat Tavern is a chain of taverns located in Chicago, Illinois. Its restaurants are based on the original Billy Goat Tavern founded in 1934 [ 1 ] by Billy Sianis , a Greek immigrant . It achieved fame primarily through newspaper columns by Mike Royko , a supposed curse on the Chicago Cubs , and the Olympia Cafe sketch on Saturday ...
As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant (from Paleopyrgos, Greece [1]), who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy (or Sinovia according to some ...
Billy Goat Tavern. Chicago Opened in 1934, the Billy Goat Tavern is such a Chicago mainstay that it even played a crucial part in the alleged "curse" that led to the Cubs' decades-long losing ...
Through his columns, Royko helped make his favorite after-work bar, the Billy Goat Tavern, famous, and popularized the curse of the Billy Goat. Billy Goat's reciprocated by sponsoring the Daily News's 16-inch softball team and featuring Royko's columns on their walls. [17] Royko's columns were syndicated country-wide in more than 600 newspapers.
The Curse of the Billy Goat originated in this Series before the start of Game 4. [1] Having last won the Series in 1908, the Cubs owned the dubious record of both the longest league pennant drought and the longest World Series drought in history, not winning (or appearing in) another World Series until 2016.
Many Cubs fans viewed this as a continuation of the "Curse of the Billy Goat", which had hung over the team since 1945, when the owner of the local Billy Goat Tavern was prevented from bringing his beloved pet goat into the Cubs' home stadium, Wrigley Field, and thus swore that the Cubs would never again win the National League Championship ...
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