This was in my e-mail box this morning from "KB"
"Hi, Thanks for the Cubs' history. My father has a memory of a Cubs' game that he attended in the late 1940s. As he recalls, the Cubs were playing the Brooklyn Dodgers and the game was moved from Wrigley Field to Comiskey Park because of concerns about the northside community's reaction to Jackie Robinson. Is this accurate? Thanks for your help."
My response: It is correct that there was concern about the community reaction to Jackie Robinson before his first game at Wrigley (1947), and it was discussed that the game would be played at Comiskey, but they decided to play it at Wrigley after all--and it remains to this day the largest crowd in Wrigley Field history. Mike Royko was at the game.
