After waiting 108 years for a World Series title for her favorite baseball team, Mabel Ball died a happy woman.
Six days after lifelong Chicago Cubs fan Mabel Ball witnessed the team’s second World Series championship in her lifetime, she suffered a heart attack, her son told the Chicago Tribune.
“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 Rich Ball, 75, said. “It ain’t funny, but it’s funny.
Six days after lifelong Chicago Cubs fan Mabel Ball witnessed the team’s second World Series championship in her lifetime, she suffered a heart attack, her son told the Chicago Tribune.
“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 Rich Ball, 75, said. “It ain’t funny, but it’s funny.
- 11/13/2016
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
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