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For the first time in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series and the city couldn’t wait to celebrate their long awaited win!
To give you a hint how long ago that was, all of the television news stations that covered the game were not around then because TV was still 18 years away from being displayed. The first baseball game to be broadcast on radio was still 12 years away and 30 years from being seen on television. We were also 18 years away from the first movie with sound aka Talkies.
There were just 16 baseball teams unlike the 30 that we have today.There were only 46 states, New Mexico and Arizona were still territories. Only 14% of houses had bathtubs inside of them and 8% had phones. Only 30 people lived in Las Vegas. The average worker made less than $400 a year. The first computer would not be completed until 1946.
Four months after the Cubs clinched the second World Series in a row, construction would begin on a little boat called the Titanic. No World Wars has been fought. The Hollywood Sign was 14 years away from being built.
The oldest Chicago Cubs fan living in Chicago was months away from being born. In fact, Kirk Douglas, Betty White, Queen Elizabeth II Larry King, you and me were not even born yet.
A lot has changed since 1908, some for them better, some for the worst. But one thing that has been constant is how much we all love baseball and that feeling of enjoyment we all got yesterday to see a team win a title that hadn’t won in 108 years.
