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When the Cubs beat the Tigers to win the 1906 World Series (yep, you can look it up - the Cubs)

Well I looked it up Blues..seems you were off by a year or two. In 1906 the White Sox defeated the Cubs 4 games to 2 in the World Series. In 1907 and 1908 The Cubs won their World Series both over Detroit by 4-0 and 4-1 respectively. 6 more seasons to the century mark for no Cub World Series Championships. Red Sox fans still have about 16 or so seasons to go...should be an interesting "celebration" for both of them.

Right you are - nice catch on my typo! I should have remembered the actual dates, especially since I had just been re-reading something about the crowd madness that caused the Cubs to need the police to get out of town alive, and boy should I have remembered 1906 as the year the Hitless Wonders White Sox knocked off the Cubs in the Series. (Does that say Cubs all over, that they could lose a Series to a team nicknamed the Hitless Wonders?) Though I have to admit, reading the teams on paper, I'm surprised the '07 Tigers didn't at least play even-up with the Cubs, take it to a seventh game, the '07 Tigers were a good enough team...

I have seen much speculation and fantasising on the idea that maybe the only way to bust the infamous Curse of the Bambino would be for the Red Sox to meet and beat the Cubs in a Series again, since the 1918 Series matched the two teams and Ruth was still one of the Sox's top pitchers. I find it fascinating enough a prospect, but with my luck what'll happen is - such a Series goes down to a seventh game, they get to the bottom of the ninth (in Fenway Park, of course!), and the Red Sox launch a two-out rally, get the bases loaded, and...the second great Northeastern power failure hits, Boston blacks out, and still-Alleged Commissioner Bug Selig declares that in the interest of fairness due to circumstances beyond his control, he is thereby proclaiming the Series a tie and splitting the championship.