I’m pretty sure the four syllable chant started with the Bleacher Creatures in Yankee Stadium as they run through the entire starting defense in the top of the first.

...I am pretty sure that Kenny Lofton brought the mid air post victory bump to the Cubs in ‘03 and it has hung around. I love that no matter which players finish the game in the outfield, they always do that after a win..

Didn’t that start in the 80s?

Pretty sure that started in 1984.

Also, entire teams never came out to the field to congratulate each other after wins . . . that may have also been the 1984 Cubs.

seems to be an East Coast dominated thing…

We did that in 1909 and a lot of other clubs have followed suit…..

Just kidding! Just kidding!

I’m pretty sure about this…

I think I read this somewhere….first concession stand.

I keed! I keed!

The term “White flag time at Wrigley!” means the Cubs have won.

Beginning in the days of P.K. Wrigley and the 1937 bleacher/scoreboard reconstruction, and prior to modern media saturation, a flag with either a “W” or an “L” has flown from atop the scoreboard masthead, indicating the day’s result(s) when baseball was played at Wrigley. In case of a doubleheader that results in a split, both the “win” and “loss” flags are flown.

Past Cubs media guides show that originally the flags were blue with a white “W” and white with a blue “L”, the latter coincidentally suggesting “surrender”. In 1978, consistent with the dominant colors of the flags, blue and white lights were mounted atop the scoreboard, denoting “win” and “loss” respectively for the benefit of nighttime passers-by.

The flags were replaced by 1990, the first year in which the Cubs media guide reports the switch to the now familiar colors of the flags: White with blue “W” and blue with white “L”. In addition to needing to replace the worn-out flags, by then the retired numbers of Banks and Williams were flying on the foul poles, as white with blue numbers; so the “good” flag was switched to match that scheme.

This long-established tradition has evolved to fans carrying the white-with-blue-W flags to both home and away games, and displaying them after a Cub win. The flags have become more and more popular each season since 1998, and are now even sold at the ballpark. On April 24, 2008 the Cubs flew an extra white flag displaying “10,000” in blue, along with the customary “W” flag. The 10,000th win had been achieved on the road the previous night.

First attempt at lights (1941)

Lights were scheduled to be added to Wrigley Field in 1942, but after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, then-owner Philip K. Wrigley (son of the late William) donated the materials intended for lighting Wrigley Field to the war effort. Baseball boomed after the war, allowing P.K. Wrigley to procrastinate on the issue. He eventually decided never to install lights for a variety of publicly stated reasons, so Wrigley Field remained a bastion of day baseball until the Chicago Tribune Company era, which began in 1981; the first night game was not until 1988.

Haven’t the Yankees been doing that for decades?

Just because they have stumbled to a slow start, nobody’s taking them off. However, every other cap in San Diego is a “B.” There are not that many transplanted Bostoinians here. Padres fans have adopted the Red Sox, not the Angels as their AL team. When the Red Sox were in Petco last year - and I thought Cubs fans were always dominant here when the team came to town - the crowd had to be 75% Sox fans for the series.

Literally, Padres fans took off their gear to root for the Sox. The local paper did a story on this event – some of the Padres were openly dismayed to see long-time season ticket holders change into Red Sox gear for the series.

Every team does this—why do you think this is exclusive to Wrigley? But, only the Cubs trot out a ‘celebrity’ to lead the crowd in “Take Me Out To The Ball Game.”

Why is this even a fanpost, is my next question.

I’ve wondered for years where this one started. The team is behind, ppl turn their hats inside out and cheer for a rally. Who started this one?