With the anniversary of the Cubs’ first night home game approaching, here’s an illuminating look at night baseball in Chicago. As with everything in our city, it came at the intersection of politics, activism and tradition.
Rockford Peaches — 30 years after ‘A League of Their Own’ — live on in a new series: ‘We didn’t know we were part of something bigger’The first nighttime big-league game at Wrigley could have been a 6 p.m. Cubs-Cardinals affair on June 25, 1943 — but MLB officials considered that a day game. The Cubs would have to wait another 45 years.
“It was as though one had suddenly walked into bright sunshine,” the Tribune reported after Charles Comiskey II flipped two switches at 8:25 p.m. to ignite Comiskey Park’s new $140,000 “illuminating plant.” Chicago White Sox pitcher Johnny Rigney then threw a three-hitter and struck out 10 St. Louis Browns in a 5-2 win watched by more than 30,000 fans.. Charles Drake, assistant to then-Cubs owner Philip K.
Though the Wrigley family had pledged not to install lights at the field, the team’s new owner did not make the same promise.Cubs general manager Dallas Green tells reporters lights will have to be installed at Wrigley Field, “or we’ll have to think about playing in another ballpark.”
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