Anonymous Reader Comment Day After Cubs Lost

1938—NY Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0—1. No major New Deal legislation is passed after this date, due to Roosevelt's weakened political power.—2.The year-long recession makes itself felt: the GNP falls 4.5 percent, and unemployment rises to 19.0 percent.

1935—Detroit 4, Chicago Cubs 2—1. The Supreme Court declares the National Recovery Administration to be unconstitutional.—2. Congress authorizes creation of the Works Progress Administration, the National Labor Relations Board and the Rural Electrification Administration.—3. Congress passes the Banking Act of 1935, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act.—4. Economic recovery continues: the GNP grows another 8.1 percent, and unemployment falls to 20.1 percent.

1932—NY Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0—1. This and the next year are the worst years of the Great Depression. For 1932, GNP falls a record 13.4 percent; unemployment rises to 23.6 percent.—2. Industrial stocks have lost 80 percent of their value since 1930.—3. 10,000 banks have failed since 1929, or 40 percent of the 1929 total.—4. GNP has also fallen 31 percent since 1929. 

5. Over 13 million Americans have lost their jobs since 1929.—6.International trade has fallen by two-thirds since 1929.—7. Congress passes the Federal Home Loan Bank Act and the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932.—8. Top tax rate is raised from 25 to 63 percent.—9. Popular opinion considers Hoover's measures too little too late. Franklin Roosevelt easily defeats Hoover in the fall election. Democrats win control of Congress.

1929—Philadelphia A's 4, Chicago Cubs 1 —The strength of America's economy in the 1920's came to a sudden end in October 1929—even if the signs of problems had existed before the Wall Street Crash. Suddenly the 'glamour' of the Jazz Age and gangsters disappeared and America was faced with a major crisis that was to impact countries as far away as Weimar Germany—a nation that had built up her economy on American loans.

1918—Boston Red Sox 4, Chicago Cubs 2—The 1918-19 influenza epidemic killed at least 40 million people worldwide and 675,000 people in the United States, far exceeding the combat deaths experienced by the US in the two World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam combined.

Besides its extraordinary virulence, the 1918-19 epidemic was also unique in that a disproportionate number of its victims were men and women ages 15 and 44, giving the age profile of mortality a distinct 'W' shape rather than the customary 'U' shape, and leading to extremely high death rates in the prime working ages.

1908—Chicago Cubs 4, Detroit 1—Cubs win. The U.S. bank panic of 1907 and the Mexican depression of 1908-1909. - Historians have long recognized that the U.S. bank panic of 1907 was the stimulus for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 that was designed to regulate the nation's money and supply and credit by buying and selling government bonds and issuing Federal Reserve Notes.

1907—Chicago Cubs 4, Detroit 0 (one tie)—Cubs win. The U.S. bank panic of 1907 and the Mexican depression of 1908-1909. - Historians have long recognized that the U.S. bank panic of 1907 was the stimulus for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 that was designed to regulate the nation's money and supply and credit by buying and selling government bonds and issuing Federal Reserve Notes.

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