What’s weirder than Michael Jordan leaving his life as the world’s greatest basketball player to play minor league baseball?
How about a bizarre in-season exhibition game between the White Sox at Cubs at Wrigley Field — one where North Side fans cheered the visitors?
Well, they cheered for one visitor, at least.
Back before Interleague play was a part of the daily major league schedule, if the crosstown rival White Sox and Cubs were going to play each other, it was going to have to be in the World Series — or more likely in an exhibition contest.