For Chicago, the fall of 1945 was a rosy spell of good fortune: World War II was won, the Cubs were in the World Series and soldiers like 20-year-old Marv Levy were home in time to watch their team ...

Cubs pitcher Hy Vandenberg, center, ends Detroit Tigers’ second inning with a toss of the ball to Phil Cavarretta, at first, retiring Detroit Tigers’ Jimmy Outlaw. But by then the Tigers already had ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... John Hanson is 84 years old, but these days he feels like a kid again. Baseball can do that for a person. The Chicago Cubs are doing it for Hanson. It has ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Exactly 75 years ago – on May 8, 1945 – World War II ended in Europe, while the end of the war with Japan ...

Douglas MacArthur signing surrender of Japan on warship USS MIssouri on Sept. 2, 1945 History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news ...

Detroit — You're a Wyandotte man, born and raised — just 21. Your dad makes gaskets for $2 a day. You went to Wyandotte Roosevelt High School and you've always been a Tigers' fan. The year is 1945 — ...

Editor’s Note: Val Lauder, a former reporter for the Chicago Daily News and lecturer at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is the author ...

The Chicago Cubs are in their first World Series in 71 years, no thanks to Milwaukee. That wasn't true the last time the team made it to the Fall Classic. The roster for the 2016 Cubs is, in this age ...