Blast From The Past: The 2016 Cubs were the biggest sports story in the U.S. — and beyond
When the Cubs broke a 108-year drought by winning the World Series in dramatic fashion in 2016 — 10 years ago Monday — it was sure to be big news from coast-to-coast. But it was bigger than I thought. The Cubs winning the World Series not only was on Page 1A in newspapers in big-league cities like New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Denver and St. Louis, but in Anchorage, AK, Concord, N.H., Brainerd, Minn., Pierre, S.D. and Fayetteville, N.C.
It actually was a tough story for newspapers to cover, especially in the East, where the Cubs' thrilling 8-7 victory over the Indians didn't end until after midnight, and even in the midwest, where it ended after 11 p.m. The monumental World Series made only the late edition of many papers, if that.
But while newspapers have struggled even more than the Cubs since that glorious moment, in 2016 the print edition still had a significant impact in a media landscape dominated by the internet. And many of them captured the moment in find fashion, including, of course, our hometown Sun-Times, Tribune and Daily Herald. But it's the papers from around the country that illustrate just how big a story the Cubs were in 2016:
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