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...Padres had a right to gulp when they arrived in Chicago and found that the four makeshift umpires breaking the strike (and mangling the strike zone) hailed from the Illinois townships of Deerfield, Des Plaines, Northbrook and Arlington Heights. Anyone who could read the signs at Wrigley Field (MY HUBBY FOR A CUBBY) and the signals everywhere else around the country knew that there were few impartial observers anywhere. When the tournament shifted to San Diego, the amateur umps were brought in from Arizona, and the Padres were revived...
...symbols of something or other, the Cubs have long been irresistible subjects for heavy thinkers. With the Cubs having nothing to look back on or forward to, it stood to reason, their games stayed a little stiller in time, though grassy and unlit Wrigley Field obviously had much to do with it. "Their ivy-covered burial ground," the late composer Steve Goodman called it, where Gabby Hartnett hit his Homer in the Gloamin' and Babe Ruth may have pointed to the sky. Bill Veeck, who planted the original outfield vines in 1938, sits out there every day now bleaching...
Perhaps it was the change in venue, as much as Templeton's spark, that enlivened the Padres, winners of the NL West this season. Returning home after suffering in the unfriendly confines of Wrigley Field, the Padres played before the largest crowd ever at Jack Murphy Stadium, 58,346. The previous record was 52,134 set on July 4 this year against the Cubs...
...Leonard Arnold, 61, came along with his twin sons Larry and Gary, who "were born the last year the Cubs won a pennant." Jim Anixter, 38, a wire-company executive from Highland Park, Ill., was a member of a syndicate that attempted unsuccessfully to buy the Cubs from the Wrigley family in 1981 (the team was purchased by Chicago's Tribune Co.). Gene Marzelli, 45, of Palatine, Ill., who designs office interiors, had been working out daily since Thanksgiving. Everyone's favorite goat was Dr. Harry Soloway, 45, a bearded Chicago psychiatrist whose flubbed grounders and muffed flies...
...commodity on the international exchanges that the White House feigned unhappiness that the broadcasters had violated the President's privacy. In truth, Reagan handlers were genuinely concerned about the breach of faith because the next time it might be damaging. "No-good lousy bums" is right out of Wrigley Field and the 1930s, naughty but lovable. Remember Richard Nixon's tapes and all those four-letter words about out-of-the-way parts and functions of the body? A caveman lurked down there someplace...