Published 8/28/2008
by BY GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com
at Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago Cubs ::
It was early September, and the Cubs led the Pittsburgh Pirates with two out in the top of the ninth inning. Closer Phil Regan had a two-strike count on Willie Stargell, and the wind was blowing in. In the next few seconds, Stargell turned on a pitch that he bounced off Sheffield Avenue -- and turned the Cubs' season on its head.
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