Joy, for now, in Wrigleyville: Cubs fans flock to season opener

Jerry Pritikin has been to “well over a thousand” Cubs games in his life, he figures. So of course Pritikin was there again Thursday morning outside Wrigley Field, where he has become famous over the years as the “Bleacher Preacher,” for the Cubs’ season opener against the Milwaukee Brewers. He had plenty of company, as fans sporting blue and red flooded Wrigleyville hours before the first pitch. To the 86-year-old Pritikin, it’s always a welcome sight. “To me the most beautiful thing, next to the Grand Canyon, was coming into...