Orphans no more

After 12 seasons of being known as the Colts and then Orphans, Chicago’s National League baseball team is called the Cubs for the first time in a story that runs 122 years ago today in the Chicago Daily News.

The new name is used by first-year Chicago manager Frank Selee.

The team still will be known mostly as the Orphans in 1902 before the Cubs’ new name takes hold the next season.

While the newly minted Cubs play well in Selee’s four seasons as their manager, they do not reach the postseason until 1906 in Frank Chance’s first full season as manager.

The Cubs then win the World Series both in 1907 and ’08 before a championship drought that lasts until 2016.