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Winning helps Chicago Cubs fans forgive Bartman 12 years later

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Steve Bartman, the Cubs fan scapegoated for a missed catch in a 2003 playoff game, sits in the stands …

CHICAGO (Reuters) - It turns out winning does cure everything, even the decade-plus grudge that Chicago Cubs fans have held against "Bartman."

Steve Bartman, the Cubs fan scapegoated for a missed catch in a 2003 playoff game, is staying quiet during this year's playoff series against the St. Louis Cardinals. He has said little since feeling the wrath of fans who blamed his interference with a foul ball late in the game for sparking a Cubs collapse that ended with the Florida Marlins reaching the promised land - instead of the Cubs.