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Winning Helps Chicago Cubs Fans Forgive Bartman 12 Years Later


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2015-10-13T195656Z_2_LYNXNPEB9C13Q_RTROPTP_2_SPORT-BASEBALL.JPGBy Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - It turns out that winning really might cure everything, and with the Chicago Cubs' playoff triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday, that even includes a decade-plus grudge Cubs fans have held against "Bartman." That would be Steve Bartman, the Cubs fan scapegoated for a missed catch by a Chicago outfielder in a playoff game in 2003 when the team was tantalizingly close to reaching its first World Series since 1945. Bartman has stayed quiet during this year's playoffs and in fact has said little publicly since incurring the wrath of fans who blamed his interference with a foul ball late in the 2003 game for sparking a Cubs collapse that ended with the Florida Marlins reaching the promised land instead.

 

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