Showing posts with label Cubs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cubs. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Time, Time, Time...and the Cubs

Things that existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series:

1-The Ottoman Empire
2-The Austrian Empire
3-The Czar of Russia
4-The British Raj
5-Trusts
6-Jim Crow
7-People who remembered veterans of the American Revolution
8-People who remembered an America without baseball
9-Civil War Veterans


Things that did not exist the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series:

1-Antibiotics
2-The NFL
3-NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC...
4-X-rays
5-The Interstate
6-Live baseballs
7- Air power
8-Voting women
9-Talkies!
10- Baseball west of the Mississippi