After discussing the Mets fan "loyalty letter" with friends, they suggested I write one on behalf of the Cubs. This is what I wrote:
Five score and six years ago, our fathers brought forth in this city, a new championship, conceived in grit and determination, and dedicated to the proposition that all Cub fans are loyal and true.
Now we are engaged in a great civil unrest - - - we can not hit - - - we can not field - - - on this hallow ground, Wrigley Field. The players, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated this franchise, far above fans power to add or detract victories. The baseball world will little note, no long remember, what we say today, but we can never forget what the 1908 Cubs did. That is for us, the living fan, rather, to be dedicated to the Cubs cause and the unfinished work which those champions fought as so nobly advanced. It is rather for us fans to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - - - to support a failing franchise - - - so that these champion dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the full measure of devotion - - - that we highly resolve here that these dead champions shall not have died in vain - - - that this Cub nation, under Ricketts, shall have a new birth of performance - - - and that the support of the fans, by the fans, for the fans, shall not perish from this season.
