No.

My dad, though, has told me that when he was in the Navy during World War II, he remembers listening to the World Series games in 1945 on the ship he was on that was part of the occupation force in Japan.

I know someone who saw Claude Passeau’s one hitter in the 1945 World Series while recovering from wounds that
had him in military hospital in Detroit ( a local businessman bought tickets for a number of wounded vets). That is as close as I get.

My Dad grew up in NY city in the 50s. (born 1948) in his youth he thought the World Series was a competition between the best NY teams. (from 1949-1958 six WS were between NY teams and only 1 didn’t include the yankees)

But to his credit, when we lived in Arlington heights in the early eighties, he took me to my first MLB game at Wrigley.

but baseball wasn’t even broadcast on the radio in those days. The first game ever broadcast on the radio wasn’t even until August 5th, 1921 (Pirates vs Phillies). The only way anyone would’ve seen them win live was to be at the game. Kinda sad to admit.

There were no radio broadcasts in 1908. Scientists were playing around with radio waves, but there were no stations or even voice transmissions. People in remote locations would follow games on a primitive version of MLB Gameday, where a telegraph would send out the results of each play and runners would be placed on a giant baseball diamond board for people to see. Pretty much only gamblers followed it. Of course, there were a lot of gamblers back then.

My grandmother died four years ago and would have been eight when the Cubs won. However, she was also in central Wisconsin and not a sports fan, so I seriously doubt she even knew it happened. Plus, there was no radio.

And by the way, radio was in its infancy at the time. The famous experiments by Hertz were about 20 years earlier, leading to the first very primitive radio prototypes sometime around 1895 by Tesla, Rutherford, Popov and most importantly Guglielmo Marconi.

Spark gap transmitters, Alexanderson alternators, coherers, Morse Code, Marconi-Fleming valves, primitive Audions, etc. but no phonie broadcasting in 1908. At that time, the transmission of voice audio was in an early, very experimental phase.

1906 radio technology, Bing Coherer/Decoherer (receiver) with Rhumkorff Transmitter, found at http://www.sparkmuseum.com/.

Long and Medium wave A.M. broadcasting started and Crystal (galena) receivers became widespread c. 10 years after last WS victory.

According to http://www.historicbaseball.com/fea/baseballbroadcasts.html :

1921 : The game goes to the air
On August 25, Harold Alren of KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa., broadcasts the first baseball game over the air.

at the West Side Grounds (now U of I @ Chicago).

Unfortunately for my father, he wasn’t born until 1911 so he missed out.

It was so cool learning the history of our city from family, the Cubs & ‘Hawks included. From the Great Chicago Fire (Mrs. O’Leary & her cow were NOT responsible) to the 1893 World’s Fair through the Cubs 1906-10 “Dynasty”, Prohibition, The Great Depression & Blackhawk ’34 & ’38 Stanley Cups, getting the history right from family was awesome.

I give ak123 credit for having a cool idea. BCB could have a collection of Cubs WS stories at your fingertips. Very Cool!!

I recommend reading Cait Murphy’s Crazy ‘08. Here’s a nice review that has a lot of info on it. link

I agree with the reviewer that

Readers of "Crazy ’08" can almost smell the whiskey and taste the pigs’ knuckles.

this book earlier in the year. It was an entertaning read, even if the wrong team won.

My great grandparents were farming in the Pecos River valley fighting off cattle rustlers and other bad men.

Heck, we were not even a state yet.

I had a grandmother that remembered 2 World Series victories by the Indians (1920, 1948). She was a huge Tris Speaker fan and hated Ty Cobb. Speaker was with the 1920 Indians. 1948 was recent to her for the Indians other World Series victory. She was born in April 1907 and died in 1998. I used to tell her that the Cubs had won 2 World Series in her lifetime. She saw a lot of Memphis Chickasaws games in the old Southern Association at now burned down Russwood Park. She recounted how she could see the flames from six miles away of the great fire at RussWOOD Park in 1960.

He was 17 in 1908, and attended one game of the WS that year. (I can’t remember which game). Then in ‘45 he took my Dad to two games of the WS vs. the Tigers, (my Dad was 16 in 1945). The deal has always been that when the Cubs go to the WS again, that my Dad & I will go to a game at Wrigley. I hope it’s soon, Dad is 80 now, we’re running out of time.

were alive when the Cubs last won their two World Series titles. My paternal grandparents lived in the city but did not follow baseball or sports in general. My maternal grandparents (grandfather was born and raised in the city while my grandmother was born on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin) did follow the Cubs to their dying days and used to tell stories about when the Cubs were baseball’s dominant team.

Two of my great-grandmothers and two of my great-grandfathers and one grandfather and one grandmother were living in Chicago in 1908.

I heard my grandfather talk about it once or twice. He was old enough to know that a Chicago baseball team had won something called a “World Series” and he was a newsboy and sold a lot of papers as a result; however, his parents were not “Americanized” enough to understand just how important baseball was to American culture.

As time went on and the Cubs became losers he became more and more proud about remembering 1908.

My Mom attended game 2 of the 1938 WS.