The date was April 23rd, 2004.
Growing up near Chicago, I spent a lot of my springs and summers at the city’s two ballparks, Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park (at the time it was still called that).
This particular story involves the former of the two. On the aforementioned date, the Cubs played an afternoon game against the New York Mets. I typically went to a lot of games in April and May because of the cost involved. At that time, a lot of the weekday games at Wrigley and Comiskey (more often at Wrigley) in April/May/September were less expensive than the summer and night games because of the number of fans in school or work.