Son Drives From North Carolina to Indiana Cemetery to Listen to Cubs Clincher With Late Father

GREENWOOD, IN - Several decades ago, Wayne Williams Jr. and his father, Wayne Sr. agreed that when the Chicago Cubs finally advance to the World Series and play for a championship that they would listen to the game on the radio together.

On Wednesday night, Wayne Jr. made sure the pact would remain intact, even though his father died 36 years ago and was buried in a cemetery several states away.

Williams drove several hours from his home in North Carolina to Greenwood Forest Lawn Cemetery in Greenwood, Ind. to be beside his father, according to a Channel 13 WTHR report.

“We had a pact that when the Cubs make it to the World Series, we are going to listen to the game together,” Williams said.

So he brought along a radio and a 'W' flag and sat beside his father’s grave as the Cubs recorded the final out in the 10th inning against the Cleveland Indians.

Wayne Sr. died in 1980 at age 53. He was a veteran of World War II in the United States Navy and was buried in Greenwood, a town of some 54,000 people just south of Indianapolis on Interstate 65.

Wayne Jr. says his father was devastated when the Cubs blew a huge division lead in 1969 and if he hasn’t died in 1980, “(the playoff loss in) 1984 would have done it.”