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...
30 KB (3,515 words) - 01:22, 16 September 2024
-87.624488 The Billy Goat Tavern is a chain of taverns located in Chicago, Illinois. Its restaurants are based on the original Billy Goat Tavern founded...
8 KB (765 words) - 15:31, 18 August 2023
Cubs' Curse of the Billy Goat (1945–2016), or the Boston Red Sox' Curse of the Bambino (1918–2004), these "curses" have been publicized by the popular...
10 KB (1,235 words) - 22:06, 7 September 2024
The Curse of Billy Penn (1987–2008) was a sports-related curse, urban legend, and popular explanation for the failure of major Philadelphia professional...
18 KB (2,131 words) - 12:29, 6 August 2024
billy goat is a male goat. Billy goat may also refer to: Billy Goat (band), American band William Windsor (goat), a goat also known as Billy the Goat...
570 bytes (109 words) - 20:37, 30 November 2023
Strikeouts The Curse of the Billy Goat was a curse on the Chicago Cubs that was started in 1945 and ended in 2016. As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek...
15 KB (644 words) - 19:40, 8 January 2024
Chicago Cubs (redirect from The cubs)
Sox rivalry Curse of the Billy Goat Grant DePorter Lee Elia Major League Baseball uniforms Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada...
188 KB (18,284 words) - 11:15, 12 October 2024
1984 National League Championship Series (category October 1984 sports events in the United States)
contributed to the popular mythology of the "Curse of the Billy Goat" on the Cubs. The series was the 16th NLCS in all -- in 1985 the League Championship...
22 KB (2,239 words) - 08:10, 17 September 2024
the Cubs' first title in 108 years, ending the longest championship drought in North American sports history, as well as the Curse of the Billy Goat....
37 KB (2,981 words) - 13:58, 12 October 2024
Steve Bartman incident (category October 2003 sports events in the United States)
associated the Bartman incident with the Curse of the Billy Goat, allegedly laid on the Cubs during the 1945 World Series after Billy Sianis and his pet goat were...
32 KB (4,289 words) - 00:25, 4 October 2024
superstition surrounding the Boston Red Sox (American baseball, ended in 2004) Curse of the Billy Goat – A similar superstition surrounding the Chicago Cubs (American...
13 KB (1,441 words) - 01:08, 24 August 2024
A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune...
18 KB (2,198 words) - 15:36, 27 September 2024
1945 World Series (category October 1945 sports events in the United States)
Game 7. The Curse of the Billy Goat originated in this Series before the start of Game 4. Having last won the Series in 1908, the Cubs owned the dubious...
20 KB (1,919 words) - 07:43, 3 September 2024
of lifting curses, one of which is named "Curse of the Bambino". Baseball portal Baseball superstition Sports-related curses Curse of the Billy Goat Curse...
36 KB (4,637 words) - 05:36, 13 October 2024
2016 National League Championship Series (category October 2016 sports events in the United States)
World Series championship in 108 years, and ending the Curse of the Billy Goat. The 2016 NLCS was the Cubs' second consecutive NLCS appearance and fifth...
32 KB (3,236 words) - 16:49, 24 August 2024
Field. In Game 4, the Curse of the Billy Goat was laid upon the Cubs when Philip K. Wrigley ejected Billy Sianis, who had come to the game with two box...
126 KB (17,801 words) - 18:06, 6 October 2024
2016 World Series (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
regarded to be the most famous championship drought in American sports history. Sports folklore attributed this due to the "Curse of the Billy Goat", which was...
104 KB (9,464 words) - 23:31, 7 October 2024
Anil Sunkara (category Year of birth missing (living people))
Tarun". The Hans India. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017. "Anil Sunkara's Films: From the Missile Man of India to The Curse of the Billy Goat". Pop...
7 KB (377 words) - 09:46, 23 September 2024
Ex-Cubs Factor (category Baseball-related curses)
The Ex-Cubs Factor (or Ex-Cub Factor) is a seemingly spurious correlation that was seen as essentially a corollary to the Curse of the Billy Goat. Widely...
18 KB (2,190 words) - 18:35, 21 July 2024
Theo Epstein (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
up to $25 million. The Cubs would proceed to break the so-called "Curse of the Billy Goat" by defeating Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, their...
31 KB (2,637 words) - 02:56, 10 October 2024
Hamburger America (film) (category History of the hamburger)
2004, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, followed by a release party at Billy Goat Tavern, one of the restaurants featured in the film. It was...
8 KB (643 words) - 07:35, 6 September 2024
NL pennant. The Cubs' collapse in this series contributed to the popular mythology of the Curse of the Billy Goat. This was the first of four consecutive...
16 KB (1,392 words) - 15:08, 11 October 2024
the Curse of the Billy Goat. That incident involved Billy Sianis, owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, who was asked to leave a World Series game vs. the Detroit...
185 KB (21,522 words) - 18:26, 26 September 2024
won the National League but lost the Series in 1910, 1918, 1929, 1932, 1935, 1938, and 1945, allegedly stymied by the infamous Curse of the Billy Goat imposed...
40 KB (3,306 words) - 14:44, 30 July 2024
Miami Marlins (section Baseball Hall of Famers)
second NL pennant, keeping the "Curse of the Billy Goat" alive and well. In the 2003 World Series, the Marlins defeated the heavily favored New York Yankees...
71 KB (4,271 words) - 22:40, 29 September 2024
Mike Royko (category American people of Polish descent)
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...
23 KB (2,375 words) - 17:58, 25 September 2024
course of the Cubs' failed pennant attempts of the past, learning about the Curse of the Billy Goat; about the collapse of the 1969 Cubs, watching the ball...
5 KB (601 words) - 00:49, 3 September 2024
Cruz Azul (section Billy Álvarez presidency)
Sox, or the Curse of the Billy Goat for MLB's Chicago Cubs. The commonality derives from these teams' inability, no matter the quality of the team relative...
90 KB (7,814 words) - 19:38, 10 October 2024
2005 Major League Baseball postseason (section (2) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. (3) New York Yankees)
end the Curse of the Billy Goat by winning the 2016 World Series. This would be the last postseason appearance by the Astros as a member of the National...
29 KB (2,236 words) - 15:32, 11 October 2024
Grant DePorter (category Cornell University School of Hotel Administration alumni)
The event was an attempt to end the "Curse of the Billy Goat" – which has supposedly prevented the Cubs from winning the National League since 1945 and...
7 KB (716 words) - 21:40, 2 October 2024