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Check out this fan's amazing hand-written box score from Game 1 of the 1908 World Series

By Michael Clair

The last time the Cubs won the World Series, there was no TV, internet or even an Interstate highway system. Fortunately there was still pen and paper. Thanks to one intrepid fan that decided to hand-write and then bind his or her 1908 World Series linescores, we can marvel at Frank Chance's two runs and two stolen bases, or that 10,812 people were in attendance for something that people would still be thinking about 108 years later:

If you've ever wanted to look at hand-written leaderboards, you're in luck: 

Just imagine, before the advent of the internet, this is what you had to do if you wanted baseball information. Beautiful to look at, horrifying to consider having to do the same. 

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