Trivia Question
1938
Level of
difficulty:

semi-easy to moderate

Gabby Hartnett's "homer in the gloaming" won the pennant
for the Cubs. What is a gloaming?

A. The distance from homeplate to the furthest part of the
outfield wall
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B. A meteorological condition describing a freak
wind off the lake
C. A pretty-much obsolete word used to describe twilight  
D. An area in the right field stands where workers from
the Wrigley factory got to sit for free
A. No. But we need a word to cover this concept,
and gloaming would be a good one.

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