Jon Miller pointed out during last night's TV broadcast that the Cubs' curse dates back to 1908 and them being awarded a victory that they did not deserve on Sept. 23.
Of course, that's the 1908 Merkle game. Miller's point was that the curse stems from the Cubs going on to win a World Series that they should have never gotten to in the first place.
Ed Sherman did a nice writeup in 2008 and noted that Keith Olberman reviewed the play and concluded that umpire Hank O'Day had made the decision by invoking a rule that was never enforced after Johnny Evers got a ball that was probably not the game ball. That fact alone -- that there was no way to prove that it was the actual game ball -- should have been enough to declare the game had been won by the Giants.
