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Watch: In '91, Caray assures Cubs fans pennant will eventually come

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They did it, Harry. They really did it.

Following the Chicago Cubs' final game of the 1991 season - a forgettable 77-83 campaign and their sixth sub-.500 finish in a seven-year span - longtime broadcaster Harry Caray refused to be cynical, assuring Chicago that, one day, the Cubs would win the National League Pennant.

"Sure as God made green apples, someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series," he said. "That may be sooner than we think."

Well, it took 'em 25 more years, but they finally got there. Tuesday, the Cubs will play their first World Series game since 1945 when they open their highly anticipated Fall Classic showdown with the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field.

Caray, a Ford C. Frick award recipient who spent the last 16 years of his career calling Cubs games, died in 1998.

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