108-Year Old Cubs Fan Dies Days After Team Won 2nd World Series of Her Lifetime

NORTHBROOK, IL - Mabel Ball's life spanned the entire duration of the Chicago Cubs' World Series drought. Which means she lived to be 108.

Ball died this week at Covenant Village of Northbrook. She had a heart attack, her family told the Chicago Tribune.

A longtime Cubs fan, one of her final days was spent reading the Chicago Tribune's account of her beloved Cubs winning the World Series for the first time since the year she was born, 1908.

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"The cruel irony, the almost unbelievable irony, is that the person who waits and waits and waits, after it happens, says, 'I've done what I've got to do, and I'm out of here,'" her son 75-year-old son, Rich, said. "It ain't funny, but it's funny."

It's more than funny, it's remarkable. For someone who is that dedicated to the Cubs to be associated with those two very years, live to be exactly 108 and die less than a week after the long-awaited championship?

Ball followed the team for decades primarily by listening to games on the radio. In all her years, she only made it out to Wrigley Field one time.

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photo courtesy of Covenant Village of Northbrook