Talk:List of Chicago Cubs seasons

message: why does this article refer to World Series in 1885 and 1886 when the World Series itself did not start until 1903? Cottonshirtτ 20:55, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The modern World Series is considered to have begun in 1903 (although arguably it was 1905). The 19th century version of the World Series was long considered on an equal par with the modern Series, but that recognition faded over time. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:00, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess the point is that it either is the World Series or it isn't. Wikipedia needs to be consistent with itself, and if the page on the World Series says it started in 1903 then it started in 1903 and a competition in 1885 is not the World Series. By all means have a post-season inter-league tournament in 1885, but you can't call it the World Series unless you have previously done two things: 1) found a reliable source that says it is the World Series, and 2) edited the page on World Series to include this 1880s tournament. If you can't do both of those then it should not be called the World Series. One baseball website I looked at called it a Championship, and I would agree that it resembles the World Series in that it is the top teams from two different leagues going head-to-head, but it is not the World Series. I have therefore deleted references to pre-1903 World Series from this article. Cottonshirtτ 05:39, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The last time I looked, it said the modern World Series began in 1903. And the 1880s series were, in fact, called "World's Championship Series", just as 1903 was - the term eventually shortening to "World's Series" and then "World Series". There are plenty of sources. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:57, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

text: All of this used to be explained in the World Series article. I haven't looked at it lately - maybe it's been edited out. But it at least used to say that when "World Series" is used by itself it is understood to mean the modern World Series and not the 1880s version or the 1890s version or whatever else; hence there's no reason to say anything other than "World Series". That's why we have a separate page for those earlier Series, the "19th Century World Series". Also, historians have retrofitted the term. It was originally "World's Championship Series", shortened to "World's Series" and then to "World Series". The shortened versions were adopted as conventions at different times by different media. In fact, some newspapers had shortened it to "World's Series" as early as 1887. Meanwhile, the scorecards for 1903 said "World's Championship Series", and it was some time before that practice faded out. It's the same situation as trying to figure out when "base ball" became "base-ball" and then "baseball". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:48, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  World series? 

message: The name of this article is misleading.  It refers to Chicago Cubs' seasons but only discusses their major league seasons.  This ignores their 1870-71, 1874-1875 seasons which MLB classifies as minor league seasons.  Either the title has to be changed or all the seasons have to be included.  (Though the minor league seasons would be segregated from the major league ones).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tripodas (talk • contribs) 16:48, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicago Cubs' Seasons