Seventy-five years ago today, Sunday, May 18, 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers made their first visit of that season to Wrigley Field.
That’s significant because it was the first appearance of Jackie Robinson at Wrigley.
Legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko attended that game as a teenager and the day Robinson died in 1972 wrote this eloquent column (scroll down, it’s the second column on that link) about his experience:
Robinson came up in the first inning. I remember the sound. It wasn't the shrill, teenage cry you now hear, or an excited gut roar.