The Washington Post, June 12th, 1994
Age tends to mellow us all, softening the edges and cooling the passions of youth. This perhaps helps explain why it took more than five decades for me to make my first pilgrimage to one of the shrines of Major League Baseball: Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. This should not have been a big deal, nor should it have taken so long. But it was and it did for reasons that have less to do with baseball - a game I enjoy watching almost anywhere - than with geography and tribal loyalty Some background is in order: Chicago is divided into two sides. Wrigley Field is on the North Side. I am fr...
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