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AUGUST 8, 1988. Wrigley Field. Chicago, Illinois. 8:05 p.m. EST. The Philadelphia Phillies, the visitors, versus the host Chicago Cubs. Kevin Gross (10-8, 3.45 ERA) faces Rick Sutcliffe...
Never before has the light bulb, once considered the most innovative creation of the past 100 years, created so much hysteria. Run for your lives, the lights are on at Wrigley. Yogi and the fat lady can start singing now. It's going, going, gone...
Baseball has now paid its last respects to the past that has made it so great. Day games at Wrigley have now joined the Ghosts of Baseball Past. Ghosts that call each other "Babe" and "Dizzy," carry bats the size of Redwood trees, smother balls in Vaseline, spit and lard, pitch both games of a doubleheader (what's that?) and take the subway for a World Series game against cross-town rivals...
...course, it has become the sport of the night game--the microwave popcorn of major league baseball. Forget about fly balls lost in the sun--the modern fan longs for convenience. Once the lights went on at Wrigley last night, baseball stopped being the sport of escape. Along with 24-hour supermarkets, self-service gas statitons and VCRs, baseball has officially entered the land of convenience...
There's no need to quote Shakespeare with every ground ball that skips through the gap or label the installation of lights at Wrigley "a bastardization of the sport." Those who do are few and rare, kind of like an elite group of baseball-crazed marines...