84 WS to have been at Comiskey? Trib wanted Wrigley gone?

[UMFan83]

Interesting article in today's Sun Times:

 

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/baseball/cubs/591759,CST-SPT-cubnews07.article

 

If the 1984 Cubs had defeated the San Diego Padres to capture the National League pennant, the World Series would have been played at -- gasp -- Comiskey Park.

 

That shocking piece of history -- and Chicago baseball sacrilege -- comes courtesy of Peter Ueberroth, the former baseball commissioner-turned-United States Olympic Committee Chairman.

 

The former commissioner also revealed that he invoked his all-powerful ''best interests of baseball'' clause to block the Tribune Co. from demolishing Wrigley Field.

 

''The decision had been made internally to ... take it down and move to a suburb,'' he said. ''And I just -- the best interests of baseball. I didn't permit it. You cannot do that.

 

Interesting...

[Post Count Padder]

Wow, just wow...

[Jon]

I take it that was before they started putting money into it in the late '80s?

 

Pretty surprising.

[seanimal]

Not surprising, really.

[sweetpeteman]

I knew about the Comiskey for the 84 series, but demolishing Wrigley is a new one. They wanted to hold it there because of night games. Wrigley didn't have lights at the time.

[CuseCubFan69]

So let me get this straight, don't demolish it but you can't have a World Series there either?

[Jon]

So let me get this straight, don't demolish it but you can't have a World Series there either?

Perhaps that's why it took the Trib until 1988 to put up lights. They probably spent the time between 1984 and 1988 pushing to destroy Wrigley, but eventually MLB won the argument.

[CubinNY]

So let me get this straight, don't demolish it but you can't have a World Series there either?

Perhaps that's why it took the Trib until 1988 to put up lights. They probably spent the time between 1984 and 1988 pushing to destroy Wrigley, but eventually MLB won the argument.

Kind of ironic that they then used Wrigley as a promotional tool. Sometime the best decisions are the ones that didn't work out.

[NewUserName]

I think the 84 WS being played at Comiskey was pretty common knowledge. They just didnt make it official because they didnt have to.

[Balsa]

Wow, can't beleive the Trib wanted Wrigley knocked down.