A lot has changed since the Chicago Cubs or Cleveland Indians won World Series title

CHARLOTTE, NC — The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians are hoping to keep the World Series dream alive as players get ready for the first game of the World Series tonight. Both teams have the longest droughts in baseball history.

It’s a different world since the Cubs’ last series. The last time the team won was in 1908.  That’s 108 years without a championship. Wrigley Field didn’t even exist the last time the Cubs took home the title.

Back then, Teddy Roosevelt was still in office. There were only 46 states. New Mexico and Arizona would become states in 1912, followed by Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. Orville Wright just made the first hour-long flight. Cowboy outlaws Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid were still on the run. The NFL didn’t exist yet – it was founded in 1920.

The Cleveland Indians have gone 68 years without a title. The team won its last World Series in 1948.

At that time … President Truman was running for re-election against Thomas Dewey and won in an upset. Babe Ruth passed away from cancer just two months before the year’s World Series. The newly formed CIA was dealing with the beginning of what would soon be known as The Cold War.

No matter how you look at it – history will be made at the 2016 World Series.