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Article: Lights for Wrigley Field: Baseball Goes Whistling in the Dark
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 7, 1988
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I keep thinking this whole thing is just a dream. On Monday
night, Aug. 8, some guy will flick a switch and turn on the lights at
Wrigley Field. But in my dream, it's just a commercial. The lights
go on and I hold up a banner from my seat in the left field bleachers
that says, "No, you silly fool, Bud Light!"
Unfortunately for me, for baseball, for anyone who ever sat in
those bleachers on a sunny afternoon playing hookey from school or
the office, for any high school senior who ever took his sweetheart
to see the Cubs for $2, it is not a dream. They're turning on the
lights at Wrigley Field and it's just a damn shame.
Baseball is a sport that repeatedly tries to sell us on its
uniqueness ...