![]() ''It`s done, so there`s no use complaining about it.'' I guess TV is starting to run the game again, what with the night playoff and World Series games. I was surprised they changed it because I didn`t think they needed lights, that they were drawing well enough as it was. ''I would have liked to see the Cubs continue with just daylight ball. ''It`s an old ballpark, but not obsolete, like White Sox Park. ''I believe in modern times, but Wrigley Field was one of the ballparks that was different,'' he said. True to form for players of his era, Vander Meer preferred day games. As a Cincinnati Red, Vander Meer pitched two consecutive no-hitters in 1938, his second in the inaugural night game at Brooklyn`s Ebbets Field. One Cub who seemed to have no problem playing night baseball was pitcher Johnny Vander Meer. ''The theory was if you came from a long homestand of daylight games, it would take time to adjust to the lights problems with night games would be more pronounced.'' ''I once talked to a Las Vegas gambler who said he`d bet against the Cubs the first night game they played on the road after a homestand,'' Brickhouse said. ![]() And, ground balls seemed to come to you quicker at night.''Īccording to long-time Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse, there may have been other nighttime variants. You`d see a mediocre pitcher with a so-so fastball in day games, but he`d look like Sandy Koufax at night. ![]() I played 85 percent of my games during the day, and it sure was different at night. I guess it was just a matter of time that the Cubs would have lights. ''Heck, I never even thought about it back then.
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