In addition to the baseball stuff, here’s another Chicago nugget: This is the anniversary of that Sunday in 1968 when the then-called Chicago Transit Authority had just finished a set at the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles, supporting Albert King.
Horn player Lee Loughnane was relaxing when he felt a presence at his shoulder, as he tells it. That turned out to be guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who was soon going to embark on a long tour.
“You have a guitar player who’s better than me and a horn section that sounds like one set of lungs.