NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The Chicago Cubs' World Series victory on Wednesday night not only ended the team's historic 108-year championship drought but attracted the biggest U.S. television audience for baseball in 25 years.
Despite the final game of the World Series going well past midnight on the East Coast, plus a 17-minute rain delay, more than 40 million viewers watched on Fox, according to preliminary numbers from Nielsen.
That was the most since 50.3 million tuned in to see the Minnesota Twins defeat the Atlanta Braves in Game Seven of the 1991 World Series.