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10.15.2003
Not Since 1945...
 Mark Prior, Sammy Sosa and the Cubs cruised into the eighth with a 3-0 lead, set to end their 58-year absence from the World Series. At that point, it was almost as if the baseball gods woke up and realized these were the Cubs.
What followed was a sudden collapse that would rival anything in the Cubs' puzzling, painful past — and the emergence of baseball's most infamous fan since Jeffrey Maier. A 26-year-old wearing a Cubs hat prevented Alou from catching Luis Castillo's ball down the left-field line. "When it happened, Mark Redman said to me, `Let's make this fan famous,'" Florida's Derrek Lee said. They did. Given the last-gasp chance, the Marlins broke loose. That's about when security decided to escort the fan out. He threw a jacket over his face for protection, but not before other fans hurled beers in his direction. "You cost us the World Series!" one fan yelled at him.
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