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Rick Sutcliffe remembers walking down to the bullpen at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh and spotting a family of four in Cubs gear holding a sign that said 39 years of suffering were enough.
‘‘I had no clue,’’ he said, thinking back to Sept. 24, 1984. ‘‘I didn’t read the paper.’’
Sutcliffe had joined the Cubs via trade in June of that year.