In 1935, Crosley Field started hosting nighttime games when President Franklin Roosevelt flipped a switch activating 632 floodlights. Baseball attendance had fallen due to the Great Depression; those with work could not attend day games and the unemployed could not afford them. Attendance at Crosley doubled the first lighted season, and other stadiums soon followed; Chicago’s Wrigley Field, the last holdout, added lights in 1988.