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Harry Caray sings “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” during the seventh inning stretch at Chicago’s Wrigley Field on July 21, 1989. You knew it had to happen once the Chicago Cubs made it to the World Series, and your patience has been rewarded. Harry Caray has returned.

The last time the Cleveland Indians won the World Series, Dewey led Truman in the polls. The Chicago Cubs' last title was 13 days after the first Ford Model T car was completed. Lovable losers known for decades of defeat meet in this year's championship, a combined 174 seasons of futility facing off starting Tuesday night at Progressive Field.

For a team that’s supposed to be cursed, everything seems to be coming up in the Chicago Cubs’ favor right now. The Cubs will not only enter their first World Series in 71 years as the overwhelming favorite, but they’ll also do so with a player who was expected to miss the entire season. On Monday night, Jon Morosi of Fox Sports reported that Schwarber was on his way to Cleveland and the plan was to have him DH in Game 1. Relief pitcher Rob Zastryzny who hadn’t appeared thus far for the Cubs this postseason.

Kyle Schwarber was added to the Chicago Cubs' World Series roster and could start Tuesday night's opener against the Cleveland Indians at designated hitter. The 23-year-old outfielder replaced left-handed pitcher Rob Zastryzny on the 25-man roster announced 10 hours before Game 1. Schwarber was playing left field at Arizona on April 7 when he collided with center fielder Dexter Fowler and tumbled on a ball that became an inside-the-park home run for Jean Segura.

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All it took was two games, some batting practice and lots of hard work over the season by Kyle Schwarber to make it to the World Series. Schwarber, who has spent the year rehabbing from a knee injury suffered in the third game of the season, was added to the Cubs' playoff roster today.

You might say it's a matchup that's been decades in the making. One way or another, either Chicago or Cleveland is going to end a historic postseason drought in the World Series. Let's break it down position by position.

The 112th World Series is almost ready to begin, with the Cubs and the Indians set to get things going with Game 1 at Progressive Field. As we await first pitch, a collection of MLB.com analysts, columnists and reporters shared their thoughts on who will come out on top.

Kyle Schwarber has been ahead of the pack throughout his brief pro career, and now he's being issued his biggest challenge. Don't be surprised if the kid from Indiana University pulls it off.

Kyle Schwarber will be with the Cubs for the World Series and could be the designated hitter tonight for Game 1.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Republican governors of Illinois and Ohio are betting cases of beer, pizza and other ballpark favorites on the World Series beginning Tuesday between the Cubs and the Indians.

The world looks much different since the last time the Cubs won the World Series in October 1908. Here are just a few things that have changed.

The World Series for the ages begins tonight at 8 ET with Game 1 between the Cubs and Indians at Progressive Field, and each FOX broadcast on the way to the drought-busting clincher will be streamed live to eligible subscribers for only $9.99 with the MLB.TV Postseason package.

Cubs. Indians. World Series. It's about time.

World Series managers sent a clear message to their players - pay no attention to the historic title droughts that have created such a tremendous buzz around your games. The Chicago Cubs, who have not won a title since 1908 in the longest championship futility streak in American sports history, worked out on the eve of the opener of the 112th World Series against the Cleveland Indians, whose title drought since 1948 is the second-longest in Major League Baseball annals. "I think we all have a tremendous amount of respect for history and what has happened before us or not happened before us, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.

Chicago hasn't been to the Series since 1945 and hasn't won since 1908, and Cleveland earned its most recent title in 1948. How long has it been for Chicago? Dexter Fowler will become the first black player to suit up for the Cubs in a World Series when he likely bats leadoff at Progressive Field.

Theo Epstein is restless in a way most of us are not. No one is more invested in finding out whether he can repeat in Chicago what he did in Boston a dozen years ago - win a World Series in a town that measures its disappointment in decades. In the middle of a vacation with family or the middle of an inning surrounded by staff - sometimes even in mid-sentence - Epstein will extricate himself from the group, pull out his mobile phone and laser-focus on the longer-term target: building a dynasty.

The Chicago Cubs often were the team to beat in the National League early in the 20th century, rather than the lovable losers they became in the decades that followed. Playing in their third straight World Series, and led by the Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double play combination that was immortalized in verse, the Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers in 1908 for their second championship in a row. The Cubs haven't won the title since.

Dave Shovein previews the Fall Classic including matchup breakdowns, predictions and analysis in Tuesday's Daily Dose.

Although the Indians and Cubs have shared the field just 18 times -- this will be their first meeting in the postseason -- there are a few instances where that history intertwines.