On 7/19/2023 6:27 PM, Barry Jacobson wrote:
I remember as a kid in Wrigley Field they had separate cards with each
number and they would manually stick them in the windows of the scoreboard
to display the score, as it changed. It was outage proof.
I designed two generations of sound systems for the Cubs, the second as
they remodeled their park to install lights. I remember getting a tour
of the scoreboard sometime in the late '70s or early '80s. The Cubs
were good to me -- they paid my invoices promptly, were loyal, and gave
me the opportunity to buy tickets for playoff games. My young son took
advantage of my roaming pass to bug players for autographs on the field
during warmup.
When Pete Rose was pursuing a home run record, he had a couple of
chances to do it at Wrigley Field, and I was hired to make sure that
sound worked for his press conferences after the game. I remember a
rainy Saturday afternoon game -- at the same time, I was responsible for
the Chicago Jazz Festival, five miles away, and my guys made it happen
while I sat choice seats behind home plate watching Pete's at bats.
I never met Pete, but my impression of him, watching him deal with the
press, is that he was a class act. Never saw him get snarly, never
anything but respectful. Many years later, I read a couple of his bios.
Oh, yeah -- I also had the wonderful opportunity of hanging out in the
press box with jazz violin legend (and composer of one of my favorite
Standards of the Great American Songbook, "Detour Ahead"). The legendary
Chicago jazz promoter Joe Segal, spent a lot of summers in the
bleachers, and arranged for Dizzy Gillespie to play the Anthem there one
day. I made a point of being there to see that the sound was right!
73, Jim K9YC
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