Corcoran: The 10 greatest games in Wrigley Field history
From Cliff Corcoran at SI.com on April 23, 2014, with mention of SABR member John Thorn:
Over the last 100 years, Wrigley Field has hosted five World Series, three National League Championship Series, four Division Series, the 1998 wild-card tiebreaker game, three All-Star Games and seven no-hitters and been the home park of 33 Hall of Famers. It was the site of one of baseball’s most enduring legends, some of its greatest individual performances and one of the most controversial moments in postseason history.
In its century of use, Wrigley has been a multi-purpose venue — the NFL’s Chicago Bears used it from 1921 to 1970, and college football and soccer have been played there as well — but it is best known for baseball, the sport which inaugurated the park exactly 100 years ago today.
With that in mind, here is a look, in chronological order, at the 10 of the most memorable baseball games in Wrigley Field history.
Read the full article here: http://mlb.si.com/2014/04/23/ten-greatest-baseball-games-in-wrigley-field-history/
Originally published: April 23, 2014. Last Updated: April 23, 2014.