This Friday at Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs will play their first World Series home game since October 10, 1945. This was the story the day after the first Cubs home game in that series, a 4-1 loss on October 6:
“They brought the 1945 World Series show to the Windy City today but, for all the enjoyment the majority in a crowd of 42,923 derived from it, they might have left it on the road.”
Here are some numbers to help put Wrigley Field's absence from the World Series in perspective.
45 different ballparks have hosted a World Series game since Wrigley’s last one.