Editing Chicago Cubs (section)

===Popular culture===
Season 1 Episode 3 of the television show ''[[Kolchak: The Night Stalker]]'' ("They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...") is supposed to take place during a fictional 1974 [[World Series]] matchup between the Chicago Cubs and the [[Boston Red Sox]].

The 1986 film ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]'' showed a game played by the Cubs when Ferris' principal goes to a bar looking for him.

The 1989 film ''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'' depicts the Chicago Cubs defeating a baseball team from [[Miami]] in the [[2015 World Series]], ending the [[List of Major League Baseball franchise postseason droughts#Longest current World Series championship drought|longest championship drought]] in all four of the major [[Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada|North American professional sports leagues]]. In 2015, the [[Miami Marlins]] failed to make the playoffs but the Cubs were able to make it to the [[2015 National League Wild Card Game|2015 National League Wild Card]] round and move on to the [[2015 National League Championship Series]] by October 21, 2015, the date where protagonist [[Marty McFly]] traveled to the future in the film.<ref>{{cite web |last1 = Oz |first1 = Mike |title = Reminder: The Cubs won the 2015 World Series in 'Back to the Future 2' |url = https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/reminder--the-cubs-won-the-2015-world-series-in--back-to-the-future-2-085935047.html |work = [[Yahoo! Sports]] |access-date = August 5, 2015 |date = December 10, 2014 }}</ref> However, it was on October 21 that the Cubs were swept by the [[New York Mets]] in the [[2015 National League Championship Series|NLCS]].

The 1993 film ''[[Rookie of the Year (film)|Rookie of the Year]]'', directed by [[Daniel Stern (actor)|Daniel Stern]], centers on the Cubs as a team going nowhere into August when the team chances upon 12-year-old Cubs fan Henry Rowengartner ([[Thomas Ian Nicholas]]), whose right (throwing) arm tendons have healed tightly after a broken arm and granted him the ability to regularly pitch at speeds in excess of {{convert|100|mph}}. Following the Cubs' win over the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, Nicholas, in celebration, tweeted the final shot from the movie: Henry holding his fist up to the camera to show a Cubs World Series ring.<ref>{{cite twitter |url = https://twitter.com/TINBand/status/794040486365302784 |number = 794040486365302784 |user = TinBAND |title = Amazing! @Cubs win the #WorldSeries 2016 |author = Nicholas, Thomas Ian |date = November 2, 2016 }}</ref> Director Daniel Stern, also reprised his role as Brickma during the Cubs playoff run.