Article: Wrigley Field name carries sense of magic

This is about a magic place that may be on the brink of losing its magic; a place whose memory may become as remote as the sands of Carthage.

This is about Wrigley Field, home of the hapless Chicago Cubs.

What does any of that have to do with Long Beach? Well, strange as it may seem, there are Cub fans right here in town. Two, maybe even three of them. One is the P-T's executive editor, Rich Archbold. His baseball joys and sorrows, mostly sorrows, fluctuate endlessly with the fortunes of the city and team he left several decades and 2,000 miles ago.

This is a tough time for Archbold, for all Cubbie stalwarts. What makes it so is Sam Zell, the jeans-wearing billionaire who inherited the Cubs ...