Thinking about the great event of the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016, breaking their 108-year draught. I was commissioned by Chicago magazine to make a scorecard during every game of that World Series. On the side of each scorecard, I listed a few Cubs fans who had died just a few days prior. One of them is the father of a very close friend of mine. For the others, I looked through the local obituaries to see who mentioned Cubs. No big names. No one famous.
I'm looking up who died on November 2, 2016 (the Cubs won on November 3 in Cleveland at 12:47 a.m. Eastern time).
Maria Glazovskaya, Russian scientist and agrochemist, died on that day. She was 104 years old. Therefore, four years before she was born, the Cubs won the World Series in 1908. She taught soil science, soooo.... that's kinda like baseball. Baseball is played on dirt. At Moscow University in the Faculty of Geography she lectured on: "Fundamentals of Soil Science and Soil Geography, Soils of the World". How about some Wrigley Field soil?
Now if we take the flip, who was born before the event. That would be my daughter. She was six months old when the Cubs won the World Series. She makes a special appearance on each of my scorecards. I drew her in the margins and what she did that day Cub-related.
• Game 1: 90 minutes before the game started, we fed our 6-month daughter her first food. We fed her squash, because we hope the Cubs squash Cleveland.
• Game 2: My daughter’s six-month doctor check-in was today. 14 pounds (Ernie Banks’ number) & 26 inches (Billy Williams’ number).
Not a person, but still significant.
The Houston Post, one of the two newspapers in town, printed its final edition on April 18, 1995. The Oklahoma City bombing happened the next day.
Thinking about the great event of the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016, breaking their 108-year draught. I was commissioned by Chicago magazine to make a scorecard during every game of that World Series. On the side of each scorecard, I listed a few Cubs fans who had died just a few days prior. One of them is the father of a very close friend of mine. For the others, I looked through the local obituaries to see who mentioned Cubs. No big names. No one famous.
I'm looking up who died on November 2, 2016 (the Cubs won on November 3 in Cleveland at 12:47 a.m. Eastern time).
Maria Glazovskaya, Russian scientist and agrochemist, died on that day. She was 104 years old. Therefore, four years before she was born, the Cubs won the World Series in 1908. She taught soil science, soooo.... that's kinda like baseball. Baseball is played on dirt. At Moscow University in the Faculty of Geography she lectured on: "Fundamentals of Soil Science and Soil Geography, Soils of the World". How about some Wrigley Field soil?
Now if we take the flip, who was born before the event. That would be my daughter. She was six months old when the Cubs won the World Series. She makes a special appearance on each of my scorecards. I drew her in the margins and what she did that day Cub-related.
• Game 1: 90 minutes before the game started, we fed our 6-month daughter her first food. We fed her squash, because we hope the Cubs squash Cleveland.
• Game 2: My daughter’s six-month doctor check-in was today. 14 pounds (Ernie Banks’ number) & 26 inches (Billy Williams’ number).
• And so on for all seven games.