ON THIS DAY - August 8th
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today in history, a Grease star passes away, the individual to find the North Pole is born, and the lights turn on in Chicago.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to be. |
| 0:03.0 | You know? Here we are. Here we go. |
| 0:42.4 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:45.7 | Boom! |
| 0:46.6 | And welcome to the Big Honker podcast today. |
| 0:49.3 | Brought to you by Boss Shot Sheld. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm Jeff Stanfield with the world famous Andy Schaeber. |
| 0:53.7 | August the 8th, we have a big event that goes on at Wrigley Field. The lights come on. |
| 1:03.7 | Yes, I remember that. You do? Yeah, what year was it? |
| 1:07.4 | 1988, which is shocking to me. Yep, that's why it was a big deal. 80. Before then, the Cubs played in a National League Championship series, I believe, because they didn't make the playoffs for like 400 years, but they made the playoffs or something, and they had to bring them portable lights, I think. Really? For a playoff game. |
| 1:27.8 | 1988. |
| 1:47.3 | That's way behind the bandwagon. Well, that was their kind of their tradition. They all played all game day. All got to be game day day day. All game days. Harry Carey. Daytime games. Harry Carey and the Cubs. 1988. That just shocked me. First night game in the history of Wrigley Field. the first night game in professional baseball took place on May 2nd, 1930. |
| 1:52.4 | So when you factor that in, way the hell behind the times. |
| 2:00.2 | That happened in Des Moines, Iowa, when they hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The matchup drew 12,000 people at the time when Des Moines |
| 2:03.4 | averaged just 600 fans per game. So move it to nighttime. Evening game soon became popular in |
| 2:11.3 | the minors as minor league ball clubs were routinely folding. In the midst of the Great |
| 2:16.2 | Depression, adaptable owners found the innovation |
| 2:18.7 | a key to staying in business. |
| 2:21.0 | The Major League, though, |
| 2:21.8 | took five years to catch up |
| 2:23.2 | to their small-town counterparts. |
| 2:25.8 | The first big league night game |
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