MLB: What it's like to be a Chicago Cubs fan 24 Articles

by Lowell Frederick

It starts as a young boy if you are fortunate enough to have a father that has fallen under the most wonderful curse ever known. The curse of a Chicago Cubs fan. Every father is honored to pass the humility on to the nex...read more

by Brian Robbins

Being a fan of the Chicago Cubs is a blessing that is usually handed down from generation to generation. It is a lesson in life; taught to all those who, for too many seasons, have been able to experience the euphoria of ...read more

by Bob Rehak

There's No Cursing in Baseball Like a man winning an all-day shopping spree at the Mall of America, I was conflicted. Watching the Boston Red Sox sweep the inept and sleepy St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series in 20...read more

by Mary Dorice Wills

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities That about sums up what it is like to be a C...read more

by L. Jay Paul

Standing beneath the sign gazing upward, I can not help but think of all those before me who have done the same. Perhaps a man in a fedora, wearing shirt and tie, not knowing he would see the game in which Ruth was said t...read more

by Bob Smyk

This topic's statement could have been worded slightly differently, perhaps as the question I regularly get now that I no longer live in Chicago, and that is "WHY are you a Chicago Cubs fan?" The answer to both for me i...read more

by Rick Bailey

CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! The sound of Harry Caray yelling at the end of a Cubs victory. Nothing sounds any better to me as a Cubs fan than the words Cubs win. Obviously winning at Wrigley field happens less than most ...read more

by Joseph Aaron Friedman

When one thinks of Wrigleyville, one envisions crowded bars, rowdy baseball fans, and the aging shrine that is Wrigley field. From April through October the seasonal stench of stale beer and bratwurst permeates the foyers ...read more

by Sean Curtis

Chicago Cubs fans: Hold your heads high. As the 2008 baseball season looms on the horizon, so does the prospect of the Chicago Cubs going 100 consecutive years without winning the World Series. To put that in perspectiv...read more

by Tim Delamatter

I, like millions of others are cursed to be a Cubs fan. I have tried to root for other teams. I even moved out of the country (I am in Canada), but still, I remain a true blue Cubs fan, hoping against hope that Sweet Lou c...read more

by Timothy Kolczak

How can I possibly describe the pain of being a Chicago Cubs fan? At the end of every year that same tormenting feeling shoots through the gut of every Cubs fan. We live our lives by a team that continually brings us not...read more

by Gabriel Rodriguez

Being a Chicago Cubs fan is like being married to a woman who constantly cheats on you right before your very eyes; it's like walking into a bar full of thick-shouldered, rowdy bikers with knives and calling them sissies; ...read more

by David Hughes

With the 100th anniversary of the Cubs coming home from September or October empty-handed, there is one thing that must be understood between Cubs, Cards, and White Sox fans alike: it is impossible to predict the future su...read more

by Kimberly Skillman

"What's it like to be a Chicago Cubs fan", now there's a question. I wish to give the female perspective on this very popular and often maddening subject. Ever since I can remember, I have been a Cubs fan. Seven yea...read more

by Jeff Axelrod

My grandfather was a blue-collar worker in a Chicago factory, so he didn't make a lot of money. And much of what he did make went to support my grandmother and my disabled uncle. Fortunately, one of his greatest joys in ...read more

by peaclver

Being a fan of the Chicago Cubs is an exercise in futility and faith. Futility because like so much of life your dreams get broken and your hopes sashed. It is an exercise in faith because each spring you believe that this...read more

by Larry Parry

When you are a Cub fan, things will get very disappointing. Year after year, Cub fans all around get very excited about how they are going to have a great year, and this is their year. It never is. The Cubs always start...read more

by Meg Broderick

I've loved baseball since I was a kid and when I was about 10, I discovered that if I went to Wrigley Field and waited long enough, I could sneak in the service entrances along side a truck. When the security guy flipped t...read more

by Kevin Hendricks

Before 2007, being a Cubs fan was like being a loser in high school. You would constantly see your peers having fun and making friends while you sat alone in the lunchroom. Not all alone, however. You still had two buddies...read more

by Kory Ross

To be a Cubs fan is to be the eternal optimist. We go in to every season with this idea that this year is it. This is the year the suffering ends, and the dynasty of the Cubs begins. Okay maybe a dynasty is a bit of a stre...read more