1945 world series

• Cubs Fans Understand Feeling of Losing

CHICAGO -- In his 82 years, Bob Fox has seen everything at Wrigley Field, from Dizzy Dean pitching for the Cubs to Gale Sayers scoring six touchdowns for the Bears to the Philadelphia Phillies and Cubs combining for 45 runs during a May 1979 game. Fox even skipped school as a 16-year-old senior to attend a 1945 World Series game between the Cubs and Detroit Tigers, never imagining it would be the last time his hometown favorites would play for a world championship.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• April 03, 2011

• [ a Unique First Memory of War: Baseball ]

LA VERNE - When former Seabee Herman Buehler thinks back on his World War II service, it's not the bombs, bullets or battles he thinks of first. It's baseball. Buehler, a petty officer 3rd Class, and the 106th Seabees were in Okinawa during the 1945 World Series. The war in Europe had been over since May and the Japanese had surrendered about two months earlier, in August.The Detroit Tigers were playing the Chicago Cubs and the servicemen wereable to listen to the game on Armed Forces Radio.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• November 23, 2005

• Basketball Is Clement's Latest Passion

The arm that used to throw a baseball 94 mph and once carried the Chicago Cubs within one victory of their first World Series appearance since 1945 shook with passion. Just like the rest of him. Butler boys basketball coach Matt Clement rushed to the edge of the bleachers at North Allegheny High School, where his fans had watched his team upset No. 1-seeded Shaler in a WPIAL Class AAAA quarterfinal game Saturday. The words exploded from his lips.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• March 01, 2011

• Cursed?: ; Cubs May Not Be, but Try Telling That to the Fans

CHICAGO - Sam Sianis wants to help the Cubs, he really does. But until the team calls and asks, Sianis says he can't do anything to lift the hex his uncle put on the Cubs when they wouldn't let his pet goat attend the 1945 World Series.

• Charleston Gazette
• October 08, 2007

• The Web Traveler: ; Double Your Pleasure; Chicago's Wrigley Field Is the Real Deal

AH, to be a Chicago Cubs fan! Eternal optimists despite a century of despair. Never hearing the water circling the bowl as season after season flushes into baseball oblivion. No World Series championship since 1908? No World Series at all since 1945? The Curse of the Billy Goat (dacurse.com), a hex that is at least 10 times as strong as the now-broken Bambino's? Could even Job take this degree of torture?

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• May 09, 2005

• Adu Makes History - Again

Freddy Adu, 15, became the youngest athlete to win a championship in a major American professional league yesterday when D.C. United captured MLS Cup 2004. Adu surpassed Detroit pitcher Art Houtteman, who was 18 years, 64 days old when the Tigers won the 1945 World Series.

• The Washington Times
• November 15, 2004

• Th Sports Staff Predicts the Major League Baseball Races

Here's how the sports writers at the Telegraph Herald see this season's Major League Baseball season playing out. They agreed on only one thing: the St. Louis Cardinals will win the National League Central. So, you can expect the Chicago Cubs to make it back to the World Series for the first time since 1945.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• April 07, 2010

• Cubs Hire Piniella; A's Dismiss Macha ; White Sox Infielder Accused of Shooting.

Lou Piniella feels refreshed after a season broadcasting games instead of managing them. He'll need the extra energy for his next assignment, one of the most challenging in the major leagues. Piniella agreed yesterday to a three-year contract worth nearly $10 million to manage the Chicago Cubs, who haven't been in a World Series since 1945. Their last world championship came in 1908.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• October 17, 2006

• Lou Gets a Sweet Deal From the Cubs ; Hoping a-Rod Will Come Along

Lou Piniella is coming to Wrigley Field, agreeing Monday to a three-year contract to manage the Chicago Cubs and accepting a job that long has been one of the most challenging in baseball. His assignment: Get to the playoffs and win a championship with a franchise that hasn't been to a World Series since 1945 and hasn't won one since 1908.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• October 17, 2006

• Golf: Chicago Native Makes Mark at South River

Bruce Bowen has been around sports for a long time. A Chicago native, he was in the stands at Wrigley Field Oct. 10, 1945 when the Cubs met the Detroit Tigers in Game 7 of the World Series. Hal Newhouser pitched the Tigers to a 9-3 victory that day, and Cubs' fans are still waiting for their next World Series appearance.

• Maryland Gazette
• August 10, 2005