It’s been brutally cold for most of the early baseball season in Chicago and much of the Midwest and Northeast.
So at least one part of this story should warm you up. 42 years ago today, it was 84 degrees at game time between the Cubs and Phillies with a wind blowing out at Wrigley Field at 20 miles per hour.
As you might imagine, that sent quite a few baseballs heading toward the Wrigley Field bleachers that Saturday afternoon, April 17, 1976.
Earlier today we talked about Cubs comebacks. This is one that went the other way.