Jon Jay got an in-person sense of what a ratcheted-up atmosphere at Wrigley Field sounds and feels like when he happened to be in the stands for Game 3 of the 2016 World Series — which was the first Fall Classic contest played on Clark and Addison in 71 years.
Jay was already going to be in the area with plans to head east on the Indiana Toll Road to South Bend, Ind., where his alma mater, Miami, was playing Notre Dame on the last weekend in October. So the seven-year major league veteran scored a ticket and filed into Wrigley Field that Friday night with hordes of fans, many of whom literally had waited their entire lives for that night.