For the first time in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs are the champions of baseball.

For more than a century, the Cubs failing to win the World Series was a concept entangled in the cultural fabric of North-Side Chicago. It was a cycle of disappointment, year after year, that Chicagoans were more than used to.

But on a wet and windy November night, that would all change for the city of Chicago; the impossible would happen.

The Cubs entered the 2016 Major League Baseball season with high expectations. They had a powerful pitching rotation, an even more powerful lineup of batters, an impressive coaching staff, and looked poised to make a deep postseason run. As the regular season rolled along, the Cubs were unequivocally the best team in baseball, and while it wasn’t such a hot take to say that they could win the World Series, it still sounded offbeat and bizarre to suggest that the Cubs could pull it off.

Come postseason, the Cubs showed that there was still some 1908 magic in them with stunning wins over the Giants and Dodgers, clinching a World Series berth for the first time since 1945.

Fours games into the Series, however, it appeared that the Cubs magic had all but run out. They had fallen behind 3-1 to a dynamic and fervent Indians team, a team that was trying to end a 68 year drought of its own. Only five teams in baseball history have ever come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series, and the Cubs were not possibly going to be one of those teams – order would finally be restored to the baseball world.

Chicago, however, would not go down without a fight. With a win in Game 5 and 6 of the World Series, there was going to be a Game 7.

The Cubs would take an early lead off of the first leadoff home run in a World Series Game 7, and with two outs in the eighth inning, it looked like the Cubs, after more than a century, were finally going to win a World Series.

And then, in one of the most shocking moments in World Series history, the Cubs coughed up a two run homer, erasing their lead.

The Cubs looked dead in their tracks, but they were not about to be haunted by ghosts of playoff past. The Cubs would successfully close out the ninth inning, forcing the game into extra innings, and with a well-timed rain delay that evened out any momentum the Indians got from the game-tying home run, the Cubs put up two runs in the top of the tenth inning, a lead that would not be relinquished. After recording the final out in the bottom of the frame, for the first time since 1908, the Cubs became champions of baseball.

While this Cubs team might not go down as one of the great teams of all time, they will certainly be one of the most memorable in the history of sports for what they were able to accomplish. This accomplishment will not just live on in the hearts of Cubs fans, but will be felt by the entire sports community for a long, long time.