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AUGUST 2, 1988, six days before Wrigley will bask under the lights, life is a bit more complicated...
Chicago (76-85, NL East, sixth): Goose Gossage (1-1, 6.89 ERA in 32 innings for the Cubs) is the new stopper, along with Calvin Schiraldi (8-5 with Boston). Rick Sutcliffe (18-10, 3.68 ERA) is the only pitcher who stands out among the ivy troops at Wrigley. National League MVP Andre Dawson and Ryne Sandberg (.294, 16 HR, 59 RBI) will be the only good news coming out of Wrigley this season. Best player: Dawson...
...night game here at venerable Wrigley. Harry Caray has never been up so late...
...seasons, baseball has followed the sun at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Long after every other major league stadium began featuring night games, the ivy- covered ball park resisted installing lights. Last week, under pressure from Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs, the city council voted 29 to 19 to allow the Cubs to play eight night games this season and 18 each year until 2002. Nearby residents contended that night baseball would bring an undesirable element into the area. But the Tribune Co. noted that night games would earn millions of dollars in additional television revenue. As an inducement...
Andre Dawson had the nerve to belt an offering from the Padres' Eric Show deep into the Wrigley Field bleachers. When Dawson came back looking for more, show fired an inside fastball that decked the Cubs slugger. While Dawson lay bleeding, the benches cleared...