It will now be 104 years since the Chicago Cubs last won the World Series, and my, how some things have changed in these United States. When the Cubs defeated the Tigers in five games in the 1908 World Series in a rematch of the 1907 Fall Classic, little did Cubs fans know that the drought of all droughts had just begun. It was so long ago that Chicago’s National League franchise called its home West Side Park—on a larger block bounded by Taylor, Wood, Polk and Lincoln (now Wolcott) Streets—and not Wrigley Field. Back then, Major League Baseball had ...
