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" Somewhere inside Wrigley, the Chicago Cubs must have a dusty, crowded attic. They&amp;#039;re\u00A0one of the oldest teams in baseball and have accumulated an untold number of artifacts over the decades. Ghosts are certainly rattling around up there, including the spirits of Frank Chance, Johnny Evers and Joe Tinker\u2014Tinkers to Evers to Chance\u2014who were the backbone of the last Cubs team to win a World Series, all the way back\u00A0in 1908. Steve Bartman will surely haunt the place one day.  This week, Cubs management added another artifact to the attic: Kyle Schwarber&amp;#039;s home run ball from Game 4 of the 2015\u00A0National League Division Series. Let me jog your memory: A\u00A0young\u00A0Cubs team played scorching baseball in the second half of last season, finishing with nearly 100 wins.\u00A0\u00A0They go to the playoffs, where they meet\u00A0arch\u00A0rival St. Louis Cardinals. By Game 4, the North Siders are up two games to one in a five-game series, and\u00A0in the bottom of the seventh inning\u00A0it&amp;#039;s 5-4 Cubs.\u00A0At this point, you\u00A0can smell the National League Championship Series and, if you close your eyes and inhale deeply enough, can pick up the faint aroma of the World Series.\u00A0 Schwarber, the Cubs&amp;#039; 22-year-old slugger, gets a fastball inside. He turns on it, violently, crushing the ball high over the right field fence. His towering solo home run\u00A0buries the Cardinals&amp;#039; hopes and sends Wrigley Field erupting into bedlam. The Cubs go on to win.\u00A0        The ball landed atop the Cubs video scoreboard in right field,\u00A0a fitting resting place because the scoreboard\u2014like so many members of the team\u2014is new to Wrigley. The team promised the ball would stay on that scoreboard, protected by plexiglass, for the rest of the postseason. Unfortunately, the Mets swept the Cubs in the NLCS, quickly ending their playoff run. On Tuesday, a Cubs spokeswoman told the Chicago Tribune Schwarber&amp;#039;s ball was no longer up there. The team removed it &amp;quot;sometime after the season,&amp;quot; the Tribune said. The ball, the spokesman added, is in &amp;quot;a safe, secure place.&amp;quot; \u00A0 So it&amp;#039;s in that\u00A0attic, which is a good thing. Time to move on from 2015\u2014and from Schwarber&amp;#039;s embarrassingly terrible defensive play against the Mets\u2014to 2016 and beyond, where, in the mist, you can almost see the outline of a dynasty.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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