Tag Archives: John Lanctot

Cubs float to World Series on a river of fans’ joyful tears
October 23, 2016

So there I sat at Fan Dan’s in Broad Ripple Saturday night crying like a baby – weeping really – after the Chicago Cubs finished off the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Time froze, so I’m unsure whether my unsightly emotional outburst lasted 30 seconds or 15 minutes. All I know […]

Top nine great things about a trip back to Wrigley Field – or the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
June 7, 2016

Wrigley Field still exists mostly in the same form as when my Dad first took me to a game in 1968 – a 9-8 loss to the Reds despite an Ernie Banks home run. Being able to walk up the same steps to the box seats that Dad and I used on that beautiful Spring […]