It appeared in this newspaper on March 21, 1997. It was about a subject Royko had written about often, the object also of one of his lifelong loves. He wrote about the Cubs, saying in part, "It's about time that we stopped blaming the failings of the Cubs on a poor, dumb creature that is a billy goat. …Yes, blame for many of the Cubs' failings since 1945 can be placed on a dumb creature. Not a poor, dumb creature but a rich one. I'm talking about P.K. Wrigley, head of the chewing gum company and the owner of the Cubs until he died in 1977. … (He ran) the worst franchise in baseball. And a big part of that can be blamed on racism. If not Wrigley's, then that of the stiffs he hired to run his baseball operation." (You can read the entire column here).