Overhand pitching had only been legal for 24 years when the Cubs last won the World Series.
Overhand pitching had only been legal for 24 years when the Cubs last won the World Series.
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
cincinnati chili (02-13-2013)
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
The last time the Cubs won the World Series, the first animal had just come out of the sea onto land.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
vaticanplum (09-12-2013)
cincinnati chili (02-13-2013)
The last time the Cubs won a World Series, the zipper had not been invented.
It was only 3 weeks after Henry Ford unveiled his Model T.
It was 4 months before the death of Geronimo
Wyatt Earp was 60 and would live another 20+ years
Thomas Edison was 61 and would live another 22 years
It was 3 years before the first Indy 500
Babe Ruth was 13, Lou Gehrig was 5 and Ty Cobb was in his second full season.
Red Barber, Milton Berle, Buster Crabbe, Lyndon Johnson, Louis L'Amour. Al Lopez, Fred MacMurray, Joseph McCarthy, Ethel Merman, Baby Face Nelson, and Red's Hall of Famers Ival Goodman and Ernie Lombardi were all born.
All my posts are my opinion - just like yours are. If I forget to state it and you're too dense to see the obvious, look here!
You guys know he did this, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OgwDVaCiSw
Sorry, but when you collaborate with Timbaland, your grunge credit gets overdrawn.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
The last time the Cubs won a World Series....
- the sacrifice fly was adopted
- "Take me out to the Ball Game" registered for copyright
- Cy Young threw his 2nd ho-hitter
- the Boy Scouts began
- the 1st Mother's Day was observed
- wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented
- 1st passenger flight in an airplane
- Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours
- General Motors founded
and....
Buddy Ebsen was born!!!!
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
The last time the Cubs won a World Series other major league baseball teams that season included the Boston Doves, Cleveland Naps, Brooklyn Superbas and New York Highlanders.
The last time the Cubs won a World Series the NFL was more than a decade away from being founded.
The last time the Cubs won a World Series, in college football the field was 110 yards long, teams had 3 downs to gain ten yards for a first down, touchdowns were worth 5 point and field goals were worth four points, and the Quakers of Penn claimed the national title.
The last time the Cubs won a World Series, women in the United States were still more than a decade away from achieving the right to vote nationally.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Anyone over the age of 43 in the stands of the Cubs last World Series victory would have been alive to see the end of the Civil War.
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