Wrigley Field history: Curt Flood makes a catch

I don’t actually need to sleuth the date of this game, because it’s right in this tweet, which is where I found the photo:

Curt Flood makes a leaping catch into the Ivy at Wrigley Field, September 18, 1962. pic.twitter.com/emm9YmUZiB

— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) November 6, 2022 In fact, it’s impossible for me to tell you exactly when this happened, because in that game, won by the Cubs 4-3, Flood made three putouts. He caught fly balls by Nelson Mathews and Moe Thacker in the second inning and another one by Mathews in the fourth.

I even checked the Tribune archive to see if there had been a description of this catch. No dice. The Cubs were so bad that year — they had lost 96 games…