How Chicago Cubs Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

27 of the 27 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

Joined the National League as a charter member Cap Anson's Chicago White Stockings help launch the new league
Won a record 116 games The club set a single-season win mark that still stands
First World Series championship Beat the Detroit Tigers in the Fall Classic for the first title
Repeated as World Series champions A second straight crown over Detroit, the last for over a century
Wrigley Field opens The North Side ballpark debuts as Weeghman Park for the Federal League
Won the NL pennant Hack Wilson and MVP Rogers Hornsby power a return to the World Series
Hack Wilson drives in 191 runs An outfielder sets the still-standing single-season RBI record
Babe Ruth's 'called shot' The Yankees slugger allegedly points to center at Wrigley in the World Series
A 21-game September streak clinches the pennant A torrid stretch run captures another flag
'Homer in the Gloamin' clinches the pennant Gabby Hartnett's twilight blast helps win the crown
Last pennant of the drought era Reached the World Series, then waited over 70 years to return
Ernie Banks debuts 'Mr. Cub' becomes the team's first Black player
Ernie Banks wins back-to-back MVPs The shortstop is named MVP a second straight year
The late-season collapse A big first-place lead evaporates as the Miracle Mets surge
Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run Mr. Cub joins the 500 club at Wrigley
Ferguson Jenkins wins the Cy Young A durable right-hander claims the award with a 24-win season
Ryne Sandberg's MVP season The second baseman leads the club to its first postseason in 39 years
First night game at Wrigley Field Lights finally arrive at the last holdout ballpark
The 'Boys of Zimmer' win the division A surprise NL East crown behind Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton
Greg Maddux wins the Cy Young The homegrown ace claims the award before leaving as a free agent
Kerry Wood strikes out 20 as Sosa chases the record A rookie ties the single-game strikeout mark amid a home run summer
The Bartman Game Five outs from the World Series, the NLCS slips away
First of back-to-back NL Central titles Lou Piniella's club returns to the postseason
Best record in the National League A 100th-anniversary season ends in another playoff sweep
A deep run one year before the title A young core reaches the NLCS behind a Cy Young ace
Broke the curse, won the World Series Ended a 108-year title drought in a Game 7 over Cleveland
Won the NL Central in the shortened season Took the division in a pandemic-shortened schedule