Chicago Cubs Fan Watches World Series Win At His Father's Graveside
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Baseball team the Chicago Cubs recently won the World Series after a 108-year wait, but the final was a moment Wayne Williams and his father had made a pact about years earlier. The two of them had said that when the team played in the World Series, they would experience it together.
However, Wayne's father passed away in 1980, so when the game came, he decided to drive from North Carolina to Indiana to listen to the game at his dad's grave site.
"I talked it out with my boys forever. I let them know that I told my dad - we had a pact. When the Cubs - not if, when - the Cubs got into the World Series, we would make sure we listen to the games together," Williams told television station WTHR Channel 13 while at Greenwood Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Wayne's old man became a die-hard Cubs fan after joining the Navy during World War II.
"I think it was because when he was at boot camp at Great Lakes," Wayne said. "He probably went to some games, because Wrigley's brought the guys out there for these things and it was the closest thing to big-time baseball he'd ever seen."
Wayne wore Cubs clothing and waved a"W" flag for the win.
Asked whether he thought his dad might be watching down from heaven, Williams laughed and said it was unlikely.
"He was a hell raiser, baby. He was a hell raiser," he said.
Featured image credit: WTHR Channel 13
