Your neighborhood technical service station welcomes you to another baseball broadcast brought to you direct from Wrigley Field, by connection with Chicago Cubs and the St Louis Cardinal to stimulate interest in our national game and in your local team.

And now out to Wrigley Field and Hal Totten, who is going to give us

some inside information on today's game right from the playing field. Take it away, Hal

Hutton. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon from Riggly Field.

The home of the Cubs,

where the Cubs come home this afternoon to open a final four game series

for the St. Louis Cardinals,

and where we're on the field for a little play game broadcast

looking over a crowd of 20,000 people

15 at least probably 20,000 before the game is underway and a real welcome

home crowd. Cardinals are finishing their impield practice. The weather today is rather amazing.

It started out this morning cloudy and finally rained a little. Right now a nice strong

northeast wind that cleared things up, it's pleasantly cool out here,

the sun is out, and it's going to be quite an afternoon.

He comes home from a trip that, while it was nowhere near as successful as the preceding road trip,

we're still quite a trip on the road, and yes, they lost several tough ball games.

Very tough ball games, and some of the fans have wondered, oh, you know, questions that come to me time

and again there.

What's wrong with the Cubs and this, that, and the other thing?

Well, my answer has always been that as far as I can tell, nothing matter with the club.

You might not have been hitting for the moment or something like that.

Though I've asked the young man,

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