European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday Augusta 1988 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary if if glitters it s Nof Wrigley be a a Glossy Black and White photograph came across the desk showing an Aerial View of Wrigley Field in its new nighttime garb. A longtime Wrigley Field fan and a keeper of the flame for old time Virtues looked at it. I hate it he said. It looks  indeed it did. There was the flush of Light on the Ball Field and this was set against the Black velvet background of the surrounding City streets with their own Diamond Sprinkle of lights. It looked in fact like All the other Aerial views of All the other ballparks in All the other towns in Amer Ica. It did t look like Wrigley Field. That is the hateful part. Wrigley Field or Weeghman Park or cubs Park or whales Park As the Ball Yard was named in earlier Days has been widely known since it was built in 1914 and began providing Sanctuary for big league baseball teams. It has been distinctive for the last 50 or so years because first of the unusual Ivy vines on the red Brick Outfield Walls and later the unique not to say stubborn insistence on a strict and faithful diet of Day games. Only an inmate in a gulag for the last 40 years might not know that Wrigley Field was the Only major league Ball Park still without lights. Wrigley Field wrote Jerome Holtzman in the Chicago Tribune recently has succumbed to the Bitch goddess of  As the thoughtful Holtzman implies glitter is not necessarily Progress. It s in the nature of a Farmer adding water to his cans of milk. It might increase profits at least for the Short term but it definitely flattens out the product. And in our Pursuit of modernism we have embraced such dubious achievements As Frozen Straw berries and polyester pants and plastic cars. Maybe that s Progress. But it smells More of Cash. Television Revenue from sponsors for prime time viewing of cub games will increase initially. But management risks losing the distinctive Quality that Ira Berkow i has made the cubs wildly popular not Only in Chi Cago last year for example they Drew two million fans for a last place team but also throughout much of the country which tunes in for Day games on superstition won. This could Lead to the old economic theory As popularity dwindles profits Cool and stockholders get hot. Regardless Wrigley Field now joins the crowd. One after another the ballparks had submitted to the dazzling Blandishments of phony illumination with Crosley Field in Cincinnati in 1935 the first to see the Light of night. Briggs stadium now Tiger stadium in Detroit was the last previous holdout of the old Ball Parks and it went bulbous in 1948. But Wrigley Field remained rooted in tradition and blissfully unlit. It stayed so mainly be cause its former owner Philip k. Wrigley of the gum Wrigley considered baseball an activity Best conducted under the healthful properties of the Sun. Second he believed that night Ball would disturb the Tranquillity of the residential neighbourhood. . Died and a few years later in 1981, his son sold the team to the Chicago Tribune co. The new owners arrived and wanted to install lights. Neigh boyhood groups fought Back. It was War and in War one party wins and the party of the second part is carried off on a shield. The result is that a week from monday on aug. 8, there will be change. Wrigley Field will fulfil Andy Warhol s prophecy that everyone and by Exten Sion everything in an increasingly superficial America will be famous for 15 minutes. Wrigley Field after having been a Quirky and Spe Cial even romantic treasure on the National scene for five decades will get its special 15 minutes. The cubs Home game against the Phillies that  Day will be a night game and this has arrested the attention of the country. Management meanwhile promises that it will keep night games in Wrigley Field to Only a handful each season. But like the Boston and bittersweet Ivy vines on the Outfield Wall such things have a Way of creeping in and surely in Days rather nights to come in Wrigley Field there will be electrical games galore. When 13,000 tickets for this first night game went on Sale june 28 beginning at 8 . And ending three and a half hours later More than 1.5 million phone Calls were placed by frenzied buyers. One Man was supposed to have called 2,700 times and still could t get through. The lines were so tied up All Over town that you could t even Call for a pedicure let alone a baseball ticket. The phone company there recorded its busiest Day in history. Some Call it Progress. But it seemed More like a response to a curiosity like a sudden burst of 15-minuteness. Maybe though it had deeper meaning a dream for cub fans that these lights will make the team Shine after All the cubs Haven t won a Pennant since 1945 and a world series since 1908. That s a Long time to suffer in the Sun or any where else. But for those who loved Wrigley Field the Way it was there is Little Consolation. And something else until now Wrigley Field was a great place for Young kids especially on summer Days with sunlight and a Ball game and Home before dinner. Night games Are different. Because of it an old Story about the team will lose relevance will the lady who lost her nine children at Wrig Ley Field please pick them up immediately. They re beating the cubs 10-0 in the  with night games parents often know where their children Are in the seventh. The new York times Stargell Schroder collects first Lascar win by edging Bodine in tollo Dego 500 .-_.-. 1 Tiht a  t-,4 i we re from Page 21 batted .282, hit 475 Home runs and had 1,540 Bis and helped the pirates win the world series in 1971 and 1979. In the 79 series he hit .400 with three homers and was the map. Last january Stargell became the 17th player to be elected in the first year of eligibility. He was named on 352 of the 427 ballots returned to the baseball writers association. In order to be elected a player must be named on 75 percent of the bal lots which this year was 321. Richardson says he s Italy bound Milan Italy a Micheal Ray Richardson the american basketball Star who was reinstated by the Aba last month following a two year ban for cocaine use was quoted monday As saying that he definitely has decided to play in Italy. The Boston celtics los Angeles Lak ers Detroit pistons new Jersey nets and Denver nuggets. All contacted me Over the last week to find ways for keeping me in the United states he was quoted As saying in an interview in Gazzetta Dello sport of Milan Italy s largest sports daily. But i have already signed a contract with Virtus Bologna and i am going to Honor it. I will Fly to Italy on aug. 16." Richardson will get about $700,000 plus room Board and a car in the two year con tract with the italian team. The 33-year-old guard was banned from the Aba on feb. 25, 1986 after testing positive for cocaine. His reinstatement cleared his return to the Aba. By Mike Harris Talladega Ala. A Alabama International motor Speedway is a new Comer s dream. The 2.66-mile, High banked Oval is the place where just about everybody has a real Chance for Victory As Ken Schrader found out sunday in winning the 20th annual Talladega 500. Schrader in his fourth full season of Lascar Stock car racing became the 18th different Winner of the Talladega summer race and one of eight Drivers to earn his first Winston cup Victory on this track. Six have done it in this event. He did it by charging from fourth to first on the final Lap of a tremendously competitive 500-mile race. Schrader whose Best career finish was second the previous weekend at Long Pond pa., started the final trip around the track trailing Leader Dale Earnhardt Geoff Bodine and Sterling Marlin. I got myself in a Good position be Hind Sterling Schrader said. As the leaders roared out of the fourth turn on the last Lap Marlin with Schrader right behind moved to the outside got past Bodine and pulled alongside Earnhardt the two time defending Winston cup Champion. The cars of Earnhardt and Marlin bumped both bobbled momentarily and Schrader s Chevrolet Monte Carlo found an open Lane and zoomed by on the High Side of the banked track. Sterling and Dale got together just a Little bit and that was the break we needed the Winner said. That just gave me a Clear shot at the  Schrader 33, of Fenton mo., crossed the finish line about one car length ahead of the second place finishing Bod Ine a teammate on the Hendrick to to sports team. Bodine overcame a Stop and go penalty Early in the race for jumping a re Start and also came Back after losing a Lap when he stopped to change a Flat tire on Lap 56. He got Back into the Lead Lap when a caution Flag came out on Lap 91. Earnhardt held on for third followed by Rick Wilson series Point Leader Rusty Wallace and Marlin. Schrader who averaged 154.491 Mph in the race slowed by eight caution flags became the second Driver this season to win his first Winston cup race at Talla Dega. Phil Parsons took the Winston 500 in May. Schrader won $67,920 As he became the 11th different Winner in 17 races this season. The dramatic finish was set up 27 laps from the finish when Darrell Waltrip the other Hendricks motor sports entry succumbed to a mechanical problem after dominating the 188-Lap race. Waltrip who won the pole position by nearly 2 Mph nearly overpowered the Field leading 11 times for 123 laps. The three time Winston cup Champi on was in the top spot on Lap 163, just ahead of Earnhardt and Bodine when he suddenly slowed on the Backstretch and cruised slowly to the pits with what was diagnosed by his Crew As an ignition problem. It was an unusually competitive race with numerous cars running Strong throughout the 188 laps and a Lascar record 19 cars on the Lead Lap at the end. The previous record was 17 in the Day Tona 500 in february. Among the entries who dropped out of the race were local favorite Davey Alli son from Hueytown Ala. Morgan Shep Herd substituting for Neil Bonnett and Ricky Rudd. Allison s car had a burned Piston and retired on Lap 89 after running with the leaders most of the Way. He later relieved Mike Alexander who has been substituting for Davey s father the injured Bobby Allison. Alexander brought out one of the Cau Tion flags when he bumped with Wilson and spun in turn four on Lap 83. The car Slid into the infield grass with the wind shield popping out but Alexander was Able to avoid the Wall and continue racing. Allison replaced Alexander on Lap 113, but yielded the Driver s seat to Alexander on Lap 147. Shepherd started in place of Bonnett. Who is recuperating from Gall bladder and appendix surgery but went out on Lap 68 when a deflating tire blew and sent him hurtling into the second turn Wall. Shepherd was not injured. There were no serious accidents and no injuries reported through the 500 mile route. The heat and humidity held Down the crowd a bit with an estimated 80,000 turning out sunday