Cubs Win: After Historic Game 7 Of The World Series, Here's The Origin Story Of Night Baseball

You know the result.

As the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs squared off last night at Cleveland’s Progressive Field—in search of their first World Series wins in 68 and 108 years respectively—it was a fair bet that few fans were focused on the stadium’s lights.  But that wasn’t always the case. For almost a century after Abner Doubleday “invented” baseball on a cow pasture in the middle of Cooperstown, New York, night games were rarer than a Honus Wagner card.