Editing Wrigley Field (section)

===Lights===
[[File:Dusk falls over Wrigley Field. (30642998645).jpg|thumb|right|Wrigley Field lighting atop the first base and right field seats in 2016.]]
The Cubs were a holdout against [[night game]]s for decades, not installing lights at Wrigley until [[1988 Chicago Cubs season|1988]], after baseball officials announced that the park would be prohibited from hosting any future postseason games without lights.<ref name="lights">{{cite news|title=The Cubs Get Lights at Wrigley Field|first=Phil|last=Vettel|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-chicagodays-wrigleylights-story,0,866410.story|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=August 8, 1988|access-date=September 19, 2011}}</ref> Before then, all games at Wrigley were played during the day. Night games are still limited in number by agreement with the city council.

In 1942, then-owner [[Philip K. Wrigley]] had planned to install lights, but the equipment was instead diverted for the [[World War II]] effort. On July 1, 1943, the [[All-American Girls Professional Baseball League]]'s first midseason All-Star Game was played under temporary lights at Wrigley Field, between two teams composed of [[South Bend Blue Sox]] and [[Rockford Peaches]] players versus [[Kenosha Comets]] and [[Racine Belles]] players. It was also the first night game ever played in the ballpark.

The [[1984 World Series]] was scheduled to start in the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] park, but MLB actually had a contingency plan to instead start the Series at the [[American League]] park in the event that the [[1984 Chicago Cubs season|Cubs]] won the [[1984 National League Championship Series|NLCS]] against the [[1984 San Diego Padres season|San Diego Padres]]. This would have allowed the Wrigley Field-hosted (i.e. daytime) games to be held over the weekend; in return, only one night game (game 3 on Friday) would have been lost. Had the Cubs advanced to the Series instead of the Padres, the [[1984 Detroit Tigers season|Detroit Tigers]] would have hosted games 1, 2, 6, and 7 (on Tuesday and Wednesday nights), while the Cubs would have hosted games 3, 4, and 5 (on Friday, Saturday and Sunday), with all three games in Chicago starting no later than 1:30&nbsp;p.m. [[Central Time zone|CST]]. Since the Padres wound up winning the 1984 NLCS, these plans proved moot.

In the late 1980s, Cubs management insisted that the team was in danger of leaving Wrigley if lights were not installed,<ref name="opening night">{{cite web|title=Cubs Remember 'Opening Night'|url=http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080806&content_id=3267159&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc|publisher=[[Major League Baseball Advanced Media]]|date=August 6, 2008|access-date=August 6, 2008|archive-date=August 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080809220529/http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080806&content_id=3267159&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Major League Baseball threatened to make the Cubs play postseason "home" games at [[Busch Memorial Stadium|Busch Stadium]] in St. Louis.<ref name="ballparksmswf"/> After 5,687 consecutive day games played by the Cubs at Wrigley, the lights were finally lit on August 8, 1988, for a game against the [[1988 Philadelphia Phillies season|Philadelphia Phillies]]. However, that game was rained out after 3½ innings,<ref name="lights" /> and the first official night game took place the following evening against the [[1988 New York Mets|New York Mets]], whom the Cubs beat 6–4.<ref name="lights" />

On November 7, 2022 Wrigley Field upgraded to [[Light-emitting diode|LED]] field lights.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wrigley Field gets new energy efficient lights|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/wrigley-field-energy-efficient-lights |date=November 7, 2002 |work=CBS News |author=CBS CHICAGO TEAM |access-date=November 8, 2022}}</ref>