With the World Series rapidly approaching, you can’t go too long without hearing about droughts. An ever-popular topic of conversation, you see, because the Chicago Cubs have the longest World Series drought in baseball. They haven’t won since 1908. With our latest World Series title coming in 1948, we take second place.

On Monday, October 11, 1948, before a crowd of 40,103 at Braves Field in Boston, Massachusetts, the Cleveland Indians, under player/manager Lou Boudreau, defeated the Boston Braves 4–3 to clinch just the second World Series in club history.

Braves Field is now called Nickerson Field, the current home facilities of the Boston University Terriers. Nickerson Field celebrated its 100th birthday last year, and the stands at the field are still those remaining from the original Braves Field. BU’s digital media department reached out to us offering to send us some of the dirt from the field where we celebrated our last World Series 68 years ago.

Take a look:

We received the dirt today, and shared a photo on our warning track at Progressive Field:

Here’s for hoping this memento from our big win 68 years ago brings some good luck as we look to end the drought with a win over the Chicago Cubs in the 2016 Fall Classic. Even more so, here’s for hoping some different dirt will be just as meaningful to us in the next coming week or so. One thing’s for sure, it should be a match up for the ages.

-TribeVibe contributor Missy Perez