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CHICAGO, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Chicago Cubs fans lined up to buy individual game tickets Friday hopeful as ever despite ribbing by White Sox fans lingering outside Wrigley Field.
The White Sox may have won the 2005 World Series, but this is "next year" for Cub die-hards, and the Northsiders were on pace to set a record for one-day ticket sales.
"I'm expecting this to be the biggest single-day ticket sale in our history and Major League Baseball history," Frank Maloney, director of ticket sales, told the Chicago Tribune.
The Cubs sold a Major League record 572,000 tickets on a single day before the 2004 season.
Although Internet ticket sales also began Friday, die-hard fans obtained numbered wristbands and a lottery determined the number where the line started to buy individual game tickets at the box office.
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