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After 21-year-old Harold Stricklin placed a bouquet of roses on Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg’s statue, he stepped back and stood alone for a few minutes as “Go Cubs Go,” the team’s anthem that plays after every home win, blared through his headphones.
“I feel like that was the least I could do to pay tribute to a Cubs legend,” Stricklin said. “Wrigley Field’s never gonna be the same.”
Sandberg announced in January of 2024 that he’d been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He announced that he was cancer-free in August, but four months later his cancer had returned, and Sandberg resumed intensive treatment.