Don't believe the media. I live in Chicago and listen to Local Sports Talk Radio. The great majority of Cubs fans were not blaming that guy. Just the usual gang of drunken idiots that every stadium has.
The clear majority were, according to my own informal water-cooler polling at the time.
Just the usual gang of drunken idiots that every stadium has.
If these people were drunk, it was on some very rare, we-may-never-get-this-chance-again Cubbies hysteria.
I'm sure a lot of them have sobered up in the meantime and no longer lay the majority of the blame on poor Steve Bartman. But, they did back then, and it's something I'll never forget.