Under The Lights

Let’s talk baseball under the lights. Baseball was a game meant to be played outdoors and under the sun, are you with us on this? Although, there is a special feeling when you arrive at the ballpark and find your seat in the early evening and the lights artificially illuminate the field as the sun sets. Truly there’s nothing quite as comforting for the soul as an 80 degree summer night under clear skies and halogens (remember the Fenway scene in Field of Dreams? Magical!). Still, it’s a game that is naturally best-played under full sunshine, in all its glory. The first night game was played at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field in 1935. But some of us are old enough to remember when there was still one holdout – the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. Daytime baseball was the only way it was played on the north side of Chicago for nearly 75 years, and day games on WGN were a way of life for generations. When Wrigley finally got lights and told the sun it was no longer necessary on August 8, 1988, it was the end of an era for the sport. Score famously commemorated the passing of history with this card in 1989. In our opinion, the Wrigley lights card was probably the highlight of the set since they didn’t have a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card!

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