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In Chicago, Cubs baseball fans dare to dream as playoffs begin

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Oct 9, 2015; St. Louis, MO, USA; A general view of Busch Stadium before game one of the NLDS between …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Every Chicago Cubs fan can recite the bitter moments over decades past when they dared to hope their eternally doomed team would make the playoffs or even win a World Series, only to see catastrophe strike.

This year Cubs followers are shedding hardened layers of pessimism as the team - which has not won a World Series in more than a century and has not played in one since 1945 - heads into the post-season against arch-rivals the St.