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Wrigley Field
History
Main article: History of Wrigley Field
The Park was built in six weeks in 1914 at a cost of $ 250,000 ($ 5.3 million in 2008 dollars) by the tycoon Dining Chicago "Lucky Charlie" Weeghman, who had the league Dolphins. (The club has a lease of fifty-five years to use the park for app $ 18,000 per year.) It was designed by architect Zachary Taylor Davis (who four years earlier had designed Comiskey Park for the White Sox), incorporating the new "fire-resistant building codes" recently adopted by the city. According to some sources, when it opened for the season 1914, Federal League, Weeghman Park has a capacity of 14,000. Another source The initial capacity was 20,000.
In 1915, the end of the Federal League folded. The resourceful Weeghman formed a union, including chewing gum manufacturer William Wrigley Jr. to purchase the Chicago Cubs by Charles P. Taft for about $ 500,000. Weeghman immediately moved the Cubs West Side Grounds to its dilapidated fleet of two years. In 1918, Wrigley acquired a majority stake in the club. In February 1926, he renamed the park "Wrigley Field."
In 1927, an upper deck was added, and in 1937, Bill Veeck's son of club president, planted ivy vines on the walls of the field.
Wrigley Field was a hold-out against the night games, not installing lights until 1988, after baseball officials refused to allow the Cubs to play all the games end the season without lights. Night games are still limited in agreement with the city council. The capacity is set at 44,250.
Features
Wrigley Field after setting the stage design that was popular in the early 20th century. The two zones on the wall, or "pit" located in both the left and right field, giving these areas a little more length if the wall was to follow the contour of the center field, it is also in these wells, when the wind blows from the Cross, that the bullets used to bounce in all sorts of interesting directions, there is also a thread along the entire length of the field wall, about two feet high The main use is to keep fans from falling off the bleacher area, and on the playground, which is about seven to ten feet below the top of the wall. Called "The Cart" by players and fans, the rules of the State on the ground that any drop the ball in the net is considered a homerun, making the distance to hit a home run into Wrigley actually shorter than the site's location field wall.
walls of ivy-covered field
Wrigley Field is known for its distinct field walls covered with ivy.
The stadium is famous for its walls of field that are covered by ivy. In the first weeks of the baseball season, the ivy has not flip, and all that is visible are the vines on which it grows. However, as the baseball season progresses further in the spring, the ivy grows thick and green, to disguise the surface of the hard brick wall field. Many a ball has been lost in the ivy at the impact to the outfield fences. A fielder will signal a ball is lost, raising his hands. When this occurs, the referees will call time and the rule of playing a ground-rule double. In addition, there were opportunities to field players being injured after slamming into the wall a ball. The ivy covering the wall area of Boston Ivy, which can withstand the harsh winters of Chicago better than its English cousin. The ivy was planted in 1937 by Cubs general manager Bill Veeck, to try and add some fill types to the brand new brick wall, then immediately.
seats on the roof
See also: Wrigley Roof
The seats across the rooftops of the street offers views similar to those of its own offices to the stadium.
Old-time stage are often surrounded by buildings benefit from a "freebie" look at the game for enterprising souls. In most sites, the clubs have taken steps to EI.