Today is the 42nd anniversary of The Sandberg Game. Sadly, it is the first anniversary without Ryne Sandberg.
The legendary Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer passed away last July, and, although we miss him, the memories will always live on. One of the most prominent, of course, is The Sandberg Game, on June 23, 1984.
At that time, a 24-year-old second baseman just starting to come into his own hit two home runs off of Bruce Sutter on national television, and Cubs fans have been talking about it ever since. I hadn’t yet turned three in the summer of 1984, and my Cubs fandom wouldn’t really cement itself until the 1989 playoff run, so I have no personal memory of watching The Sandberg Game live. But I know that game about as well as I know any other individual game, and you probably do, too. It was something truly special.
You don’t need me to recite the bones – down 9-3 against the Cardinals at Wrigley, the Cubs rallied, and Sandberg homers off Sutter in the 9th to tie; Cardinals score two in the 10th; Sandberg homers off Sutter AGAIN to tie; Cubs win in the 11th. Five hits, seven RBI, and the defining moment of what would become his MVP season.
I’ve long thought The Sandberg Game was probably the genesis of the whole “The So-and-So Game” naming convention in Cubs fandom – one we use sometimes seriously, sometimes jokingly – and maybe even throughout baseball. A small, quiet gift that just kept on giving for decades.
Two years ago today, on the 40th anniversary, the Cubs unveiled the Sandberg statue outside Wrigley. He’d announced his cancer diagnosis only a few months earlier, and he spoke at the ceremony about love and family and the people who’d shown up for him. Sandberg has since passed away, but there’s still so much love there among Cubs fans who gladly celebrate him today (and any day they see his statue or think about his time in Chicago). The Sandberg Game, still in our memory. Ryne Sandberg, still in our hearts.
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