Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Wasu masana tarihi sun yi jayayya cewa asalin la'anar ya koma baya sosai; cewa hanyar da ake zargi da cin nasara ta 1908 (wanda ya kai ga nasarar da suka yi a gasar cin kofin duniya) ya fusata "allahn baseball". Saboda rashin daidaitaccen lokaci, ana iya kiran wannan la'anar Fred Merkle, tun da yake yana tsakiyar rikici. Kowane post-kakar sun halarci tun sa'an nan alama sun featured wani bala'i na wasu irin, daga Hack Wilson rasa wani tashi ball a cikin rana, to Babe Ruth ta kira harbi, to da "Steve Bartman lamarin
. " A lokacin da suka lashe gasar a shekarar 1984, taken farko tun 1945, manajan Jim Frey ya yi ihu a cikin gidan kulob din da aka shayar da shampen, "Jim's baya baya!" Wasu magoya baya sun dauki wannan a matsayin sumbar mutuwa... wanda ya tabbatar da cewa, yayin da Padres suka yi taro a wasan karshe a San Diego ya nuna kwallon da ke ƙasa a ƙarƙashin safofin hannu na dan wasan farko Leon Durham... wani abin mamaki mai ban mamaki ga irin wannan da kuma mafi yawan abin tunawa da abin da ya faru da Red Sox da "tsohon" Cubs na farko Bill Buckner wanda zai faru shekaru biyu bayan haka. Wannan yana buƙatar saurin ambaton "Ex-Cubs Factor", wani yanki na babban "la'anar" Cubs: cewa duk wata kungiya da ta kai wasan bayan kakar wasa tun daga 1945 Series, kuma tana da 3 ko fiye da tsoffin Cubs, kusan tabbas an yanke musu hukuncin rasa ko dai a cikin wasan kwaikwayo ko Series saboda "matsanancin adadin Cubness". Pirates na 1960 sun kasance banda banda har zuwa 2001, lokacin da Diamondbacks suka kawo karshen magana game da wannan la'anar ta hanyar cin nasarar Series a cikin wasan kwaikwayo wanda ya nuna 2 daga cikin 3 tsohon Cubs, ɗayansu (Luis Gonzalez) yana samar da jerin RBI mai nasara.