Weather records <\/strong>(from the National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n 1938:<\/strong> Chicago Cubs manager-catcher Gabby Hartnett\u2019s two-out, two-strike, last-of-the-ninth home run \u2014 known as the \u201chomer in the Gloamin’\u201d<\/a> \u2014 beat darkness and first-place Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5. (Lights were finally installed and turned on at Wrigley Field in 1988.)<\/p>\n \u201cYou have seen them rush out to greet a hero after he touched the plate to terminate a great contest. Well, you never saw nothin\u2019,\u201d Tribune reporter Edward Burns wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mob started to gather around Gabby before he had reached first base. By the time he had rounded second, he couldn\u2019t have been recognized in the mass of Cub players, frenzied fans, and excited ushers but for that red face, which shone out even in the gray shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n Three days later, the Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals for their 10th win in a row and clinched the pennant.<\/p>\n 1969:<\/strong> The Dan Ryan Rapid Transit line<\/a> (known today as the south branch of CTA\u2019s Red line) opened.<\/p>\n Confusion arose when thousands of inbound Lake \u201cL\u201d passengers got off at the Clark and State street stations on the Lake Street \u201cL\u201d structure, and then encountered difficulty in transferring to a new Loop shuttle-train service or the Evanston \u201cL\u201d trains for getting to the Van Buren and Wells street sides of the elevated structure.<\/p>\n 1980: <\/strong>Though the Chicago Marathon\u2019s first wheelchair competition wouldn\u2019t take place until 1984, Northwestern University medical student Jayne Schiff became its\u00a0first unofficial wheelchair winner<\/a>\u00a0with a time of 3:02:38. Schiff nearly died in 1975, when a landslide inside an upstate New York cave crushed her spinal cord, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I\u2019m rolling along the lakeshore, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m in a wheelchair, I feel like I\u2019m flying<\/a>,\u201d she told the Tribune in 1981.<\/p>\n 2003:<\/strong> Cubs third baseman and broadcaster Ron Santo\u2019s No. 10 jersey<\/a> was retired by the team at Wrigley Field. \u201cThis is my Hall of Fame,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n Santo was inducted<\/a> into baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame in 2012 \u2014 almost two years after his death<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want more vintage Chicago?<\/p>\n Subscribe to the free\u00a0Vintage Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, join our\u00a0Chicagoland history Facebook group,<\/a> stay current with Today in Chicago History<\/a> and follow us on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0for more from Chicago\u2019s past.<\/p>\n Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@chicagotribune.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0mmather@chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\n
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Ann Hartnett, mother of Gabby Hartnett, manager of the Chicago Cubs, was on hand Oct. 5, 1938, for the first game of the World Series in Chicago against the Yankees, and she indicated what team she wanted to win when she gave Gabby a kiss. (AP)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CTC-L-CTHIST-CTHIST-ABR-234-CT_F_226348485.jpg\")
A modern rapid transit train heads for the Loop carrying dignitaries as the city dedicates a $51 million dollar system in the Dan Ryan Expressway on Sept. 26, 1969. The train has just left the Dan Ryan system and is linking up with the Lake Street line into the Loop. (James O’Leary\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n![\"Gloved](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CTC-L-CTHIST-Jayne-Schiff-1981-1_229052603.jpg\")
Gloved hands keep Jayne Schiff of Chicago speeding along in her racing wheelchair on April 5, 1981, at a 10,000-meter course on the Chicago lakefront. In 1980, she was the first unofficial wheelchair winner of the Chicago Marathon. (Ernie Cox Jr.\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n![\"Chicago](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CTC-L-SANTO_SPT-091603-P1-CUB0915_190215195.jpg\")
Chicago Cubs broadcaster Ron Santo holds his No. 10 jersey in the radio booth on Sept. 15, 2003, at Wrigley Field where he provides commentary for WGN radio. (Nuccio DiNuzzo\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n