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After the talented Chris Garrity (23-for-38, 195 yards on the day) hit junior wide receiver Kurt Wrigley with a 13-yard touchdown pass, the Crimson drove another 76 yards downfield, gobbling almost four minutes off the clock, before Jim Villanueva hit a 27-yard field goal before time expired...
Precisely at 1:35 p.m. C.D.T., starting time for last Friday's game between the Chicago Cubs and the visiting San Diego Padres, the stands at Wrigley Field were empty. A few hours later, when games were scheduled to begin at other big league ballparks across the U.S., no fans showed up. After nearly two years of acrimonious bargaining between team owners and the Players Association, major league baseball was shut down by a strike, a month short of the season's midpoint. Though the players had walked out just before the start of the 1972 season, last...
Sparky Anderson's Detroit Tigers lost ten consecutive games. The hapless Chicago Cubs dropped twelve in a row before slipping and defeating the Cardinals 6-1. Some diehard Cub supporters have had enough. During the streak, a contingent of fans showed up at Wrigley Field wearing paper bags over their heads, and another group wore disguises. "We're too embarrassed to show our faces," said Disc Jockey Bob Del Giorno from behind a fake nose and eyeglasses. Season Ticket Holder Al Bernstein, however, is one of the many who declined to join the covered-face revolt...
...People are coming here to sit in beautiful Wrigley Field and just relax," he said. "What's happening on the field has become incidental...
...atmosphere, there are signs announcing NO GUNS, NO KNIVES. NO TIES. For down-the-hatch topers, Chicago's Rodeo offers a selection of booze that includes Redeye whisky, Rotgut Scotch, Panther gin and Snakebite vodka; Rodeo also claims to be the city's largest Budweiser outlet after Wrigley Field. Manhattan's Lone Star Cafe boasts the sizzlingest made-to-order chili east of the Pecos, but attracts a relatively cool clientele To be sure, says Maryann Smith, 34, the entertainment coordinator, "some people may have Stagecoach or High Noon in the back of then minds, but they...