The Chicago Cubs will sooner or later attain out to notorious fan Steve Bartman extra than thirteen years after an incident at Wrigley Field that has long gone down in sports activities lore.
Owner/CEO Tom Ricketts showed plans to attain out to the Northbrook local and Glenbrook North High School alum in 2017.
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"I'm positive we're going to attain out to him on the proper time, and I'm positive we're going to determine some thing out that offers closure for everybody," Ricketts instructed the united states Today in a submit-World Series interview. "Hopefully, we are able to make it work.
Bartman have become well-known on Oct. 14, 2003 while he reached for a nasty ball in the course of Game 6 of the Cubs' National League Championship Series towards the Florida Marlins. When outfielder Moises Alou threw a suit questioning Bartman interfered together along with his risk of catching the ball and shifting the Cubs one out towards a World Series berth, panic ensued and the Cubs blew a three-run lead in the sport en course to dropping the collection.
Bartman has prevented the limelight ever for the reason that incident, even though a majority of Cubs lovers have come to the conclusion that it turned into now no longer his fault that the group misplaced the collection towards the Marlins. It's uncertain if he might receive an invite to Wrigley Field, despite the fact that that is what Ricketts has in mind.
It simplest took the Cubs 14 years and a World Series name to confess that Bartman wasn't responsible. In 2003, Cubs Manager Dusty Baker right now blamed Bartman after the sport. His domestic turned into beneathneath police surveillance for weeks because of threats.