--- title: Chicago Cubs 2016: Fan Drove 600 Miles to Honor Late Father description: One longtime Chicago Cubs fan movingly marked the team’s historic win with his late father — who did not live to see it. canonical: https://time.com/4556601/chicago-cubs-fan-late-father/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-03T16:08:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:36:36.067Z article:section: Sports og:title: 'We Had a Pact': Cubs Fan Drove 600 Miles to Listen to Game 7 At Father's Grave og:description: Keeping a promise to his late father, a Cubs superfan og:url: https://time.com/4556601/chicago-cubs-fan-late-father/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5394683d062babdd/6988acd90a4a22c5d49cbe7b/chicago-cubs-win-world-series1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cubs win World Series og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'We Had a Pact': Cubs Fan Drove 600 Miles to Listen to Game 7 At Father's Grave twitter:description: Keeping a promise to his late father, a Cubs superfan twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5394683d062babdd/6988acd90a4a22c5d49cbe7b/chicago-cubs-win-world-series1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chicago Cubs Fan Drove 600 Miles to Listen to Game 7 At Father's Grave: 'We Had a Pact' > Sponsored content. 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The Chicago Cubs celebrate after defeating the Cleveland Indians, Nov. 3, 2016 in Game 7 to win the World Series at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio.Chicago Tribune—TNS via Getty Images by [Char Adams / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Char Adams / People Nov 3, 2016 4:08 PM UTC One longtime Chicago Cubs fan movingly marked the [team’s historic win](http://people.com/sports/chicago-cubs-make-history-with-first-world-series-win-since-1908/) with his late father — who did not live to see it. Wayne Williams drove from North Carolina to Indiana on Wednesday to listen to Game 7 of the 2016 Major League Baseball [World Series](http://people.com/sports/5-things-to-expect-at-the-2016-world-series-as-the-cubs-and-indians-aim-to-make-history/) with his father, a Cubs superfan who died more than 35 years ago, [WTHR](http://www.wthr.com/article/cubs-fan-shares-world-series-with-late-father-at-greenwood-cemetery) reports. “I talked it out with my boys forever. I let them know that I told my dad we had a pact,” Williams told the station. When the Cubs — not if, when — the Cubs got into the World Series, we would make sure we listen to the games together.” So, Williams drove about 600 miles to Greenwood Forest Lawn Cemetery, set up a chair next to his dad’s headstone and listened to the game with his father. Williams told WTHR that his father, a Navy veteran who died in 1980 at age 53, was a loyal Cubs fan and was always hopeful that the team would win big — despite their lengthy history of losing. “I’ll never forget one day he said, start of the season, I forget what year it was, ‘This is going to be our year. This is going to be our year. We’re going to be 500,’ ” he said, noting that the team’s near-miss ’69 season “broke his heart.” The Cubs beat out the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a dramatic extra-innings game, nabbing their first World Series win since 1908 — and Williams had his big “W” flag ready to fly after the big win. > [](https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/794039516185014272) Despite Williams’ big effort to listen to the game with his dad, he’s slyly dubious about whether his father was following along from the great beyond. “Knowing him, no,” he said. “He was a hell raiser, baby. He was a hell raiser.” _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/sports/cubs-fan-keeps-promise-to-late-father-and-drives-600-miles-to-watch-game-7-at-his-grave-we-had-a-pact/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4556601/chicago-cubs-fan-late-father/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4556601/chicago-cubs-fan-late-father/"},"headline":"Chicago Cubs Fan Drove 600 Miles to Listen to Game 7 At Father's Grave: 'We Had a Pact'","datePublished":"2016-11-03T16:08:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:36:36.067Z","description":"Keeping a promise to his late father, a Cubs superfan","url":"https://time.com/4556601/chicago-cubs-fan-late-father/","keywords":["Baseball","world series"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5394683d062babdd/6988acd90a4a22c5d49cbe7b/chicago-cubs-win-world-series1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Char Adams / People"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5394683d062babdd/6988acd90a4a22c5d49cbe7b/chicago-cubs-win-world-series1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cubs win World Series","caption":"Cubs win World Series","creditText":"Chicago Tribune—TNS via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/baseball/","name":"Baseball"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4556601/chicago-cubs-fan-late-father/","name":"Chicago Cubs Fan Drove 600 Miles to Listen to Game 7 At Father's Grave: 'We Had a Pact'"}}]}] ```