I am always looking around for new Wrigley/Cubs images to sleuth. Well, “new” to me, obviously I’m checking around for old images, the older the better.
A recent search brought me to this chicagonow.com article from 2014. The article isn’t really relevant; what is relevant is the caption to the photo in the article, which reads:
A photo of the Wrigley Field scoreboard back in the 1950s.
Well, no. It’s obvious at a glance that this photo can’t be from the 1950s. There weren’t teams in Montreal and Toronto back then. Further, there wasn’t an electronic message board beneath the scoreboard until the early 1980s (and then only for a couple of years), on this date advertising “Rag Ball Day.