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In the temples of baseball -- the old stadiums full of tradition -- it can be a fulltime job keeping fans from spreading the ashes of the dearly departed.

Yankee Stadium had that problem before it was torn down a few years ago, and with the the spotlight on the World Series and tonight's game three in Wrigley Field in Chicago, we learn that it's no different in the Church of the Ivy.

“There are pounds and pounds of cremated remains at Wrigley,” a funeral director nearby tells the 

, insisting that he's not responsible for putting them there.

“We plug our ears,” said another funeral home manager, Eli Turnbough of Lakeview Funeral Home, 1458 W. Belmont. “It’s private property.

“I’ve heard a number of times people say, ‘Mom wanted to be scattered at Wrigley,’ ” Turnbough said. “But we don’t get involved with that.”

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In the temples of baseball -- the old stadiums full of tradition -- it can be a fulltime job keeping fans from spreading the ashes of the dearly departed.


Ashes to ashes, dust to dust at Wrigley

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