Happy Thanksgiving, Cubs fans!
Do you give thanks for baseball? Do you remember the game that turned you from a casual fan with a passing interest in the sport into the die-hard you are now? I remember mine, though it was really an unremarkable event as far as Cubs baseball was concerned. That day, the Cubs and Mets split a doubleheader at Shea Stadium.
But there was so much going on. The White Sox played a doubleheader at Comiskey Park that day, too, splitting their set against the Rangers. I was 12 years old and I met my first crush that day in the alley behind my grandparents’ house at 63rd & Troy, just north of Marquette Park.