The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, April 24, 19907
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Take me out to Wrigley: Tradition
runs rampant in Friendly Confines
"All right, lemme hear yah. A one, a
two, a three. Take me out to the ball
Rame, take me out to the crowd..."
For those who don't know, these are
some of the immortal words from
baseball's timeless masterpiece, "Take
. Me out to the Ball Game." They pro
ceed from the somewhat tilted mouth
of Chicago Cubs announcer Harry
. Caray during every seventh-inning
stretch at Wrigley Field, a timeless
ballpark that houses the Cubs. His song
at baseball's stand-up-and-stretch time
is as traditional as 20-win seasons for
UNC basketball coach Dean Smith.
For Wrigley, a park built around the
turn of the century, tradition is the key
word.
I, along with one companion, was
taken out to a ball game this weekend,
courtesy of a drawing at the UNC-
.Clemson contest two weeks ago at
Boshamer. We (my girlfriend and I)
.got to see three games in historic
;Wrigley and be a part of a crowd that
-.carries on many traditions.
First, Wrigley has the Major
- Leagues' sole manually operated score
. board. The scorekeeper puts up the
.number of hits and runs of each team as
: well as the line scores of the rest of the
day's games. Wrigley, unlike other
parks in the bigs, doesn't have any
.fancy visual graphics with fireworks or
- dot races between innings.
. Instead of playing pop music during
.breaks in the action, Cubs' Park either
plays the organ or has tunes from an
old-time quintet. But there are some
exceptions. When Cub reliever Mitch
Williams nicknamed the Wild Thing
,for his unusual and often dangerous
pitching style completes an inning
of work, "Wild Thing" by (no, not the
, . Tone Loc version) the Troggs blares as
; fans sang along. Williams, a crowd
. favorite, is traditional in that he doesn't
throw junk. His heater is one of the best
. in the business.
" ...Buy me some peanuts andcracker
.jack, I don't care if I ever get back..."
Vendors carried around lots of the
good stuff hot dogs, soda, peanuts
and beer. Emphasize the latter, because
baseball and beer seem to go hand in
hand at Wrigley. Vendors barked out a
variety of calls to sell their products in
a variety of accents. Some examples:
"Hey! Hot dauwwwg" or "Beer here!"
Luckily for me, much of the food sold
for very old-time prices, which made it
On Tap
Today
BASEBALL, vs. Campbell, Boshamer Sta
dium, 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 25
SOFTBALL, vs. North Carolina A&T, Finley
Field, 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 26
BASEBALL, vs. N.C. State, Boshamer Sta
dium, 3:00 p.m.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK, at Perm
Relays, Philadelphia, Pa., 9:00 a.m.
Friday, April 27
BASEBALL, at N.C. State, 3:00 p.m.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK, at Perm
Relays, Philadelphia, Pa., 9:00 a.m.
LACROSSE, at ACC Tournament, Charlot
tesville, Va., 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 28
BASEBALL, vs. N.C. State, Boshamer Sta
dium, 1:00 p.m.
LACROSSE, at ACC Tournament, Charlot
tesville, Va., 8:00 p.m.
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"...So, its root, root, root for the
Cubbies, if they don' twin it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes yer out at
the old ball game."
I grew up watching the Cubs on
cable. Or, should I say, watching the
Cubs lose on cable. At one point, fans
in the Windy City and elsewhere waited
39 years for a National League pennant
from 1945 to 1984. Last season, they
took home the N.L. East crown and
then got spanked by San Francisco in
the playoffs.
Of course, we rooted for the Cubs
this weekend, but it didn't help much.
In fact, it hurt the home team a lot. The
Cubs had not one or two but three
strikes in the loss column as Pittsburgh
won by scores of 9-4, 4-3 and 3-2.
Several of my friends here who are
from Chicago said we struck the Cubs
with some sort of evil losing streak and
should be banned from Wrigley for
life. They truly believe we caused the
Cubbies' weekend demise. Yeah right.
One Chicagoan, who shall remain
nameless, went so far as to say, "Man,
you ruined the whole season." I cer
tainly hope not.
The folks at the Friendly Confines
have baseball roots that run as deep as
the Pirates' Bobby Bonilla's home run
in Friday's game. His dinger, the sec-
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ond for Bonilla on the day, carried out
to Sheffield Avenue past the right field
bleachers. One cf the strongest tradi
tions was exhibited after Bonilla's first
homer into the left field stands. The
Bleacher Bums, so called for their of
ten inebriated state, have a thing for
throwing visitors' home runs back onto
the field.
After a Pittsburgh homer on Satur
day night by Jeff King, one bleacherite
decided to keep the souvenir. In the
bleachers, this was not the customary
nor safe thing to do. Fans booed vehe
mently until the overwhelmed fan flung
the ball back into the outfield to the
delight of the Cubs' faithful.
The tradition that set Wrigley apart
from other parks until 1988 was that
baseball was always played in the
daytime. You see, Cubs' Park had no
lights, so afternoon games were the
norm. We got to witness a Wrigley
rarity Saturday called night baseball. It
was great to be a part of history on that
beautiful but nippy Chicago night.
Even though the home team lost,
Sunday's game is what makes Wrigley
the greatest park in baseball. The sun
was shining and a slight breeze was
blowing from the shores of Lake Michi
gan. The grass, surrounded by old-time
wooden seats and the anachronistic but
new light fixtures, was thick but well
kept. The essence of baseball at Wrigley
came Sunday afternoon after six and a
half innings of play. With 37,09 1 fans
singing along, Caray's traditional seventh-inning
serenade culminated a
weekend of baseball for the ages.
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