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The Cubs have hired a new organist

Cubs organist Gary Pressy retired at the end of the 2019 season, having set a consecutive-game record that will likely never be broken:

Al Yellon
A video board tribute to Gary Pressy, September 22, 2019

The Cubs auditioned quite a number of people to succeed Pressy; I wrote about this back in January when some of the auditions were heard from the streets surrounding the ballpark.

During the season-ticket holder meeting with Cubs executives Thursday, it was revealed that the team had hired not one, but three organists who will begin playing when baseball resumes at Wrigley Field, and that one of them would be having a practice session between 5 and 6 p.