You know how they print up shirts for both teams in a championship and eventually have to get rid of those from the losing side? Now just imagine if you’d announced that Wrigley Field was going to host its first night game in 1945 only to find out the steel for the light standards was being requisitioned for the war effort. That’s what happened almost 80 years ago, after which the Cubs stubbornly clung to day baseball for several decades.
Baseball under the lights at Wrigley is no longer a big deal, but you can own a piece of forgotten history if you’ve got a few extra bucks burning a hole in your pocket.