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Today in Cubs history: 30 years ago, they tried to play the first night game at Wrigley

Several years ago, in an offseason “Game from Cubs History” series, I wrote the story here of the attempt to play the first night game at Wrigley Field August 8, 1988, 30 years ago today.

In re-reading that article, I decided I couldn’t have re-written the story of that night any better than I had posted it here in January 2013.

So below is the text from that article, with a couple of minor edits.

Tomorrow, I’ll have the story of the real first night game at Wrigley Field, played August 9, 1988.