Seeing Where the Cubs Played 131 Years Ago

A break from the break.  You might argue it was the ultimate barnstorming trip.  In the offseason of 1888-89, Al Spalding, President and part-owner of the Chicago Cubs (then called the Chicago White Stockings), took the White Stockings and a team of National League All-Stars on an around-the-world tour, to promote baseball and his sporting goods company.  While the two teams stopped literally all over the world¹, the most famous stop was in Egypt, where the two teams played a baseball game in front of the Pyramids and by the Sphinx.

The stop in Cairo resulted in the most iconic photo of the entire trip:

Well, 131 years to the day of that game, we visited the Pyramids and the Sphinx.  (Why do you think I came to Egypt?)  Obviously, we didn’t stand on the Sphinx, but we did take our picture there:

And so, from Cairo² to Chicago: Go Cubs!
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¹ Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Egypt, Italy, Monaco, France, England, and Ireland
² The one in Egypt, not “Little Egypt.”
UPDATE (2/20/20 9:00 pm): Now that we are home, I have been able to correct the date of this post to the date we were actually there.