News

1993 Yearbook Predicts Chicago Cubs Championship

A photograph shows a high school student's yearbook quote from 1993 predicting a Chicago Cubs World Series championship in 2016.

Published Oct. 25, 2016

Shortly after the Chicago Cubs triumphed in the National League Championship Series on 22 October 2016, thereby garnering their first trip to the World Series since 1945 (which they eventually won, triumphing over the Cleveland Indians), a photograph began circulating on social media purportedly showing a 1993 high school yearbook quote from Mission Viejo (California) student Michael Lee in which the youngster predicted a 2016 World Series championship for the Cubs:

michael lee

This image was initially met with skepticism, but since its initial posting on TheHeckler.com, multiple photographs showing the same yearbook page have appeared on various sites such as Reddit, where user number1makeitso shared another picture of Lee's quote:

michael lee yearbook quote

Another Reddit user and apparent classmate of Lee also shared multiple photographs showing the entire page of the yearbook:

michael lee 2

michael lee 3

michel lee 4

On Twitter, user Thomas Dale shared a photograph of his mother's copy of the yearbook:

thomas dale chicago cubs

Lee's prediction echoes a scene from the 1989 film Back to the Future II, which is set in the year 2015 and includes an (in-joke) news report showing the Cubs winning the World Series that year.

Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes.

Article Tags