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Kiss Him Goodbye

By Gene Wojciechowski

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

One by one the Cubs left their Wrigley Field clubhouse that final, surreal day of the 2004 season. They walked past team captain Sammy Sosa's two locker stalls, up a flight of steep stairs, through a metal door that opened onto a main concourse that still smelled of Italian sausages, grilled onions and spilled Bud Lights. From there they made their way through a musty concrete hallway, maneuvered around a stairwell and wall and then, finally, reached the 20-space players' parking lot, where doze ...

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