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Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Big crowd edition

Getty Images says:

Wrigley Field crowd in Chicago, ca. 1962.

Not only is that not correct, it’s not particularly close. Here’s the full photo so you can follow along:

Photo by Kirn Vintage Stock/Corbis via Getty Images

So, what do we see here? A couple of sections worth of fans, and a few players in the Cubs dugout. Right away we know this isn’t 1962 because the Cubs are wearing the uniform style they wore from 1943 to 1956. There’s one player with a partial number visible — a two-digit number that ends in “9.