Tonight was the second of two evenings of celebrations for the Chicago Cubs this week.

On Monday, the Dodgers came to town… to sit through the Cubs banner raising ceremony before the ballgame in the evening.

The banner raising event was well done, as one would expect when celebrating a first World Series championship in 108 years- and when the club-owning Ricketts family is involved with the event. As a finale of that ceremony, the Cubs players filed out and around the ballpark to right center field, and each symbolically raised last year’s championship one link at a time. And, as the evening demanded, the ceremony and the game were both delayed by rain (a nod to last year’s World Series game 7). And appropriately enough, a Rizzo single drove in a run to give the Cubs a walk-off win over the Dodgers.

Tonight, the Dodgers got to sit through another pregame of celebration, and this time it got a little more personal for the Chicago players and personnel as they each received their World Series championship ring. Designed with input by the players and staff, the ring, suitably enough, is crowned with 108 diamonds, aside from the 14-carat white gold and the other precious stones that make it up. It is big and sparkly and shiny, and what a Cubs player probably deserves after breaking the 108 year drought. Among the decorations on the ring, someone also had the wisdom to suggest including the profile of a goat head, to clearly certify the curse of the goat was made kaput in 2016.

I think what struck me the most about watching tonight’s game and snippets of the ring presentations and the interactions between players and staff and the MLB people is the extent of remembrance and generosity that went into not only this week’s festivities, but also into the making and giving of the rings. That generosity became apparent when Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies, the Cubs TV broadcasters, were starting to talk in their booth after a commercial break with a man representing the Cubs, and on the desktop before them were two boxes which, moments later, were opened and revealed two rings, which went to the two broadcasters. The guest was one of the Cubs brass giving them rings as part of the 2016 Cubs crew.

As it turns out, the rings the players received were worth a little more than sentimental value tonight. Back in the old days, prior to the late 1920’s, the World Series champs received pins and pocket watch fobs as mementos of their victory. When rings became the World Series champion keepsake of choice, they were simple items at first, but over time, decorative elements and precious stones were added on. The Cub ring the players each received is worth about $70,000.

But the Cubs organization and the Ricketts- the team owners- didn’t simply give mementos to just the players and coaches. They also made sure everyone in the organization who had a decent hand in the Cubs winning last year’s championship received some sort of ring or jeweled pin to commemorate the event- groundskeepers, front office personnel, ball park staffers.

Uniquely enough, that list of recipients for the championship jewelry came to 1,908 people.

Prior to last year’s championship run, the last time the Cubs won the World Series was in 1908.