Step 1 : Introduction to the question "What did Chicago's Wrigley Field NOT have until the 1988?"
On this day in 1988, the Chicago Cubs hosted the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field. The first-ever big league night game in professional baseball took place 50 years earlier in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the next 13 seasons, the rest of the major league parks followed suit, with one exception, Wrigley Field. For 74 seasons, the Cubs played only day games at home. Finally, on August 8, 1988, the Cubs played the Philadelphia Phillies in the park’s first night game. Ninety-one-year-old Cubs fan Harry Grossman was chosen to turn on the lights. After counting to three, he flipped the switch, and announced “Let there be light.”