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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Sport
Paul Skrbina

Cubs World Series trophy damaged during benefit concert in Boston, then repaired

After 108 years, the Cubs broke through and won a World Series last season.

Now their World Series trophy is broken.

Or was broken.

The team's commissioner's trophy was damaged during Cubs' President Theo Epstein's "Hot Stove Cool Music" benefit concert in Boston over the weekend, the Cubs confirmed.

The Cubs played the Red Sox in a three-game series at Fenway Park on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Cubs' trophy, along with the one Epstein helped the Red Sox win as their general manager in 2004 to break an 86-year drought, both were being passed around the crowd.

In a video, Epstein is shown on stage playing guitar while Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder sings and the trophies are being passed around the room.

"A handful of (the 30) flags came off the trophy during the event Saturday night," Cubs vice president of communications and community affairs Julian Green told the Tribune. "(It) was repaired and was on display Sunday (at Fenway along with the Red Sox trophy)."

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