The Chicago Cubs meet the Cleveland Indians in the World Series starting Tuesday night.
The Cubs haven’t won the series since 1908, which makes the Indians’ last win in 1948 seem recent.
Quite a few things have changed since the last time the Cubs won.
Many things we take for granted today didn’t even exist back then.
Newsday.com compiled a list: Things that didn’t exist the last time the Cubs won the World Series
- The Boy Scouts of America
- The Cleveland Indians
- Nylon
- FM Radio
- Sliced bread
- Canned beer
- The zipper
- The assembly line
- The convertible car
- Traffic signals
- Band-aids
- A divided Korea
- Wrigley Field
Watch the first game right here on Fox 13 starting at 5:30 p.m.