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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Response to David Rubin
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Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 08:25:06 EDT
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> 	The feeling that the Cubs should be allowed day games for any 
> post-season play, and that those games should be played at Wrigley, isn't
> confined to the people in the immediate area.  This is generally a city-wide
> attitude.  To state that the people around Wrigley have enough clout to get
> city hall to pass anti-night baseball legislation is to be a bit ignorant
> of the politics involved with the city.............
> 
> 		Chip Kozy   

Perhaps this should be moved to net.politics... :-)

In any case, I beg to differ.  Regardless of how other Chicagoans
feel, they do not feel as strongly as the neighborhood residents.  In
actual fact, city ordinances and state laws were a DIRECT result of
political action by the residents of the Wrigley area.  It is my
informed opinion (I was attending the U. of C. during the period these
laws were passed) that politicians representing other consituents went
along with the legislation because no direct harm was evident;
politicians, and especially Cook County politicians, do not overly
concern themselves with much that is not immediate.  It was a desire
not to alienate those colleagues who had a real political stake in the
issue that allowed the statutes to sail through.  Had the dangers of such
legislation been apparent at the time, there would likely have been a
debate.  Before the Tribune Co. took over the Cubs, voting for day
baseball was as controversial, and as likely to bring harm, as voting
for apple pie.  But when there are more customers for cherry pie than
for apple, the unzealous start to see things is a somewhat different
light (pun intentional).

					David Rubin
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