The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team from Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team that plays in the National League (NL) Central division. The team's home games are held at Wrigley Field, which is located on the city's North Side. The team was founded in 1876 as the Chicago White Stockings. Wrigley Field is the home of the Chicago Cubs and has been since 1914. The first game played at Wrigley Field was on April 17, 1914, when the Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 in 10 innings. The Cubs have won more than 670 regular season games since then and have only been eliminated from playoff contention twice - in 2007 and 2008. The team's owner is an organization called "Billy Bean LLC", which is made up of members of the family that owns Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs have won two World Series titles - in 1907 and 2016 - and eight NL pennants. They have also appeared in nine World Series games but have never won one. The team's all-time leader in wins is Joe McCarthy with 1,505; he was hired by the Cubs as their manager in 1945 and led them to victory in the NL Championship Series in 1946 but was fired after that season. Bill James is credited with creating the term "expository language" to describe the statistical analysis that now forms such a large part of modern baseball writing.