A Nice Little Place On The North Side: Wrigley Field At One Hundred - Plot & Excerpts
Ahead of the Marlins 3–0 in the top of the eighth inning of Game 6, with a Marlins runner on second base, the Cubs were five outs from their first World Series since 1945. For Major League Baseball, that would be a matchup made in heaven: David against Goliath, the Cubs against the Yankees, perennial losers against the definition of the word “dynasty.” Then a Marlins batter lofted a soft fly ball down the left-field line where the seats are only a few feet from the foul line. Cubs left fielder Moises Alou, his glove hand raised, crossed the foul line and reached for the ball. So did some fans, including Steve Bartman. A twenty-six-year-old computer consultant, a former high school second baseman, a youth baseball coach, and a besotted Cub fan, he was listening to the game through headphones. He was sitting in aisle 4, row 8, seat 113, a few feet from the wall. Except now, as the ball descended, he was not sitting. He was doing what fans reflexively do: standing and reaching for the ball, which was coming down tantalizingly close to him.
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