I was only 8 years old when our Little League team went there for a day game of course.
In those days, fans could enter the park at 10am and watch infield practice and batting practice. We all lined up on the 3rd base wall and got autographs. Randy Hundley “9” signed my Gil Hodges’s model first baseman’s mitt.
I was a catcher from then on and played that position until I was 21 and aged out of Legion ball.
My sister’s,nephew was at the last game with his wife. Last time we went was to take my mom who was a cubs fan over 60 years. We saw Sammy Sosa hit his 59th homer. I grew up on the southeast side but moved to Michigan in the late 70’s. Still close enough to visit everyone often. Our parish priest who passed in the 80’s was buried with his cubs cap.