The last time that the Chicago Cubs won the World Series was in 1908, when
Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House.

It’s ironic that “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” the song now
famously sung during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field, was
written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer in 1908, the same year that
the Chicago Cubs last won the World Series. Back then, Theodore Roosevelt
was president of the United States, and American life was very different to
what it is today. In 1908, only 8 percent of American homes had a telephone
and just 14 percent had a bathtub. If you lived outside of the city, just
getting to the ballpark would have been quite an undertaking, since car
ownership was rare and paved roads were even more scarce.