There were two delays but they rushed it through between cloudbursts. The Pirates were up four to two in the top of the seventh when Lieberman and Hanrahan came in the door of the T & L Deli on Devon. On the radio, Harry Carey was exhorting the crowd. “Let me hear ya,” he cried, and the crowd came back with ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game.’” At their reserved front table, the only table in the T & L, three of the Alter Cocker regulars—Herschel Rosen, Syd Levan, and Howie Chen—kept singing along with Harry when the policemen entered. There was a fourth man at the table who wasn’t singing, but he was smiling knowingly and nodding his head. Syd Levan, the youngest Cocker at sixty-eight, motioned to Lieberman and Hanrahan to stop at their table. They did and dutifully waited till “Root, root, root for the Cubbies” let the patrons of the T & L, including two women at the counter and a couple with a small child in one of the red leatherette booths, know that the important part was coming.
