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Twenty years ago… 8/8/88… was the first night game at Wrigley Field. It actually wasn’t the first official night game, because it was rained out, proving of course that God didn’t want night games at Wrigley Field.

Interesting side note, the Conrad Clan was actually at the game on 8/7/88 and somewhere we have a picture of my brother and I at Wrigley with the still unused lights in the background.

For those who may have thought that it was a travesty that Wrigley added lights, Cubs.com has a great timeline of the effort to get lights added to the ballpark. I had always thought that the Wrigley family wanted to add them in the winter of 1941, but canceled the plans when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered WWII. It turns out that they were trying all along between then and when they sold the team.