This week in 1908, 1945

Every weekend (even Easter weekend), JOBC goes back in time to the last year the Cubs won the pennant (1945), and the last year they won the World Series (1908).

This week in 1945, Hitler celebrates his last birthday in a bunker beneath Berlin, Happy Chandler is named the second baseball commissioner, and the Cubs get their ace pitcher back from an injury.

This week in 1908, a gruesome murder in Indiana is getting headlines, and the Cubs surge into first place on a 2-hitter by Orval Overall.