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Wrigley Field History
WRIGLEY HISTORY
In 1920, Weeghman Park becomes known as Chicago Cubs Baseball Team
Park, after chewing gum magnet William Wrigley buys out the remainder of Charles Weeghman's share of the club. The park would undergo yet another name change in 1926 when it becomes Wrigley Field.
Instead of becoming one of the first teams to install lights, the
Chicago Cubs Baseball Team went on to become the last, finally getting them in 1988. After 5,687 consecutive day games played by the
Chicago Cubs Baseball Team at Wrigley, the lights were finally lit on August 8, 1988, for a game with the Philadelphia Phillies. That game was rained out after 3½ innings, and the first official night game took place the following evening against the New York Mets. The
Chicago Cubs Baseball Team won, 6-4. Lights had actually been placed in the ballpark for installation in 1941, but Wrigley instead donated them to a shipyard for the war effort the day after Pearl Harbor. In the late 1980s, however,
Chicago Cubs Baseball Team management insisted that the team was in danger of leaving Wrigley if lights weren’t installed, and Major League Baseball threatened to make the
Chicago Cubs Baseball Team play postseason games at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
Wrigley Field was home to Babe Ruth's "called shot," when Ruth allegedly pointed to a bleacher location during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series ... Ruth then hit Charlie Root's next pitch for a homer.
Wrigley Field was home to the great May 2, 1917, pitching duel between Jim "Hippo" Vaughn and the Reds' Fred Toney ... both Vaughn and Toney threw no-hitters for 9.0 innings before Cincinnati's Jim Thorpe (of Olympic fame) drove in the only run in the 10th inning ... Toney finished with a no-hitter.
Originally known as Weeghman Park, Wrigley Field was built on the grounds once occupied by a seminary.
Wrigley Field is a trim configuration of red brick and
steel. Built in 1914, it was first home to the Chicago
Whales of the old Federal League. By the time the Chicago Cubs Baseball Team
moved here in 1916, they had already won their last World
Series. Over the years, with the destruction of most other
early-twentieth-century ballparks, Wrigley has emerged as a
lone witness to the glorious dead-ball era. After
generations of artificial turf and multipurpose stadiums, a
new generation of architects has come to emulate Wrigley,
building snug downtown parks in Baltimore, Cleveland, and
Houston. For the most part, though, these stadiums are mere
approximations, with none of the mood, or feeling, or grime,
of the real thing, none of that terrible history. Wrigley
Field is, after all, where, in the 1932 World Series, Babe
Ruth supposedly called his shot, pointing two fingers at
center field, then hitting a home run into those very seats.
The Wrigley Field bleachers and scoreboard were constructed in 1937 when the outfield area was renovated to provide improved and expanded seating. The original scoreboard remains intact. The score-by-innings and the pitchers' numbers are changed by hand. The numbers signaling batter, ball, strike and out, along with "H" and "E" to signify hit and error, are eyelets.
The 27-foot-high, 75-foot-wide scoreboard was built in 1937 by Bill Veeck. Its top is 85 feet above the field. The 10-foot-diameter clock was added in 1941. No batted ball has ever hit the scoreboard. Two baseballs barely missed - a homer hit onto Sheffield Avenue (right-center) by Bill Nicholson in 1948, and one hit by Roberto Clemente onto Waveland Avenue (left-center) in 1959.
One of the traditions of Wrigley Field is the flying of a flag bearing a "W" or an "L" atop the scoreboard after a game. A white flag with a blue "W" indicates a victory; a blue flag with a white "L" denotes a loss.
Wrigley is affected by wind conditions more than any other major league park. Breezes off Lake Michigan favor pitchers, but winds blowing toward Lake Michigan take homers with them.
Franchise History
The Chicago Cubs Baseball Team is the oldest baseball organization to stay in the same city. They were one of the eight original teams to start in the National League in 1876. Founded in 1870, the franchise was originally known as the Chicago White Stockings. Over the next few years the team was also known as the Chicago Colts in 1890 and the Chicago Orphans in 1898. The name
‘Chicago Cubs Baseball Team’ was imposed upon the team in 1902 by a newspaper writer who thought the team looked very young. The nickname stuck and eventually was adopted by the organization.
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