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13 things that weren’t around last time Chicago Cubs won World Series

Posted at 2:56 PM, Oct 25, 2016
and last updated 2016-10-25 17:21:11-04

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

  1. The Boy Scouts of America
  2. The Cleveland Indians
  3. Nylon
  4. FM Radio
  5. Sliced bread
  6. Canned beer
  7. The zipper
  8. The assembly line
  9. The convertible car
  10. Traffic signals
  11. Band-aids
  12. A divided Korea
  13. Wrigley Field

Watch the first game right here on Fox 13 starting at 5:30 p.m. 

See the full list from Newsday.com here.