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Nicknamed "the Friendly Confines," Wrigley Field has been home to the Cubs since 1916. Its original name was Weeghman Park when it was built in 1914 for the Federal League's Chicago Federals, also known as the Chicago Whales. When the Whales folded and the Cubs moved in, it was known as Cubs Park. In 1926, it was renamed Wrigley Field after William Wrigley, who was owner of both the Cubs and the chewing gum company that bears his name. Located at the corner of Clark and Addison Streets on the North Side, it is surrounded by the neighborhood that eventually became known as Wrigleyville. It was the last major league ballpark to install lights, on Aug. 8, 1988, and is the second oldest ballpark...
Nicknamed "the Friendly Confines," Wrigley Field has been home to the Cubs since 1916. Its original name was Weeghman Park when it was built in 1914 for the Federal League's Chicago Federals, also known as the Chicago Whales. When the Whales folded and the Cubs moved in, it was known as Cubs Park. In 1926, it was renamed Wrigley Field after William Wrigley, who was owner of both the Cubs and the chewing gum company that bears his name. Located at the corner of Clark and Addison Streets on the North Side, it is surrounded by the neighborhood that eventually became known as Wrigleyville. It was the last major league ballpark to install lights, on Aug. 8, 1988, and is the second oldest ballpark in the majors behind Boston's Fenway Park, which was built in 1912. Wrigley's most distinctive features include its ivy-covered outfield walls. It last hosted a World Series in 1945.
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Rays' rise a fastball into guts of Cubs
IN THE WAKE OF THE NEWSWhat is humiliation? I mean true, utter humiliation. How low can a team go? For the Cubs and their fans (God be with you), we could be about to find out. Humiliation would be Tampa Bay winning a World Series instead of you. It would be a used Ford...Tags: Ray Lewis, Ray Bradbury, Chicago White Sox, Sugar Ray, Tampa Bay Rays
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Fall's biggest bumper crop? Sports nuts
TRIBUNE REPORTERRarely do all the sports planets align in such a bounteous way as right now, when you can turn on your TV and watch the baseball playoffs, professional hockey, college and pro football and NBA basketball. All of which might lead the sports crazed,...Tags: Football, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Doug Glanville, Marketing, Consumer Electronics Industry
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Cancer takes 'nice, humble' ex-Cubs pitcher
Chicago Tribune reporterFormer major league pitcher Kevin Foster, who fulfilled a lifelong dream by playing for the Cubs, died Saturday at the age of 39. The former Evanston High star died in an Oklahoma City hospital after a six-month bout with renal cell carcinoma, his...Tags: Diseases, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, National League, Greg Maddux
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Hawks sell brand, but focus on wins
For a decade or so, as the Chicago Blackhawks racked up losses on the ice and in their ledgers, their iconic Indian-head logo was as likely to evoke the memory of Iron Eyes Cody's famously rueful response to litter and pollution as any of the storied...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Tickets, Patrick Kane, Chicago Cubs, Bobby Hull
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I enjoyed a whirlwind of activity in the Windy City
Special To The SentinelMy husband offered to take me to Chicago for my birthday. That was all I needed to hear. I immediately sat down at the computer, made our airline reservations and began my research of the Windy City. After studying hotels, I decided we should stay at The...Tags: Georges Seurat, Sears Tower, Magnificent Mile, Grant Wood, Georgia O'Keeffe
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THE HOMECOMING
The 14th hole at the Highland Park golf course is a 443-yard par four, slightly uphill from the tee before twisting right and heading downhill toward a green that is protected by a winding creek. It is a cruel hole, and one afternoon in the late summer of...Tags: William Friedkin, Tribune Tower, Police, Music Theater, Christmas
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Cubs GM deserves payoff
John McDonough is doing a great job with the Blackhawks. Yet the reality is he should still be with the Cubs, as the club president. Remember, he left because the team's uncertain ownership situation gave him little choice when Hawks Chairman Rocky...Tags: Mike MacDougal, Bill Hall, Kosuke Fukudome, Julio Lugo, Ichiro Suzuki
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Cubs GM Jim Hendry deserves a new deal
John McDonough is doing a great job with the Blackhawks. Yet the reality is he should still be with the Cubs, as the club president. Remember, he left because the team's uncertain ownership situation gave him little choice when Hawks Chairman Rocky...Tags: Mike MacDougal, Bill Hall, Kosuke Fukudome, Julio Lugo, Ichiro Suzuki
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Age no barrier to Phillies' Jamie Moyer
Tribune reporterPerhaps the best way to make the second round of the postseason is to be an ex-Cub rather than a current Cub. And so we find 45-year-old Jamie Moyer, who started with the Cubs, not only pitching in the National League Championship Series but trying to...Tags: Jamie Moyer, Nomar Garciaparra, All Stars, Joe Torre, Chicago Cubs
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Age no barrier to steady Moyer
Chicago Tribune reporterLOS ANGELES — Perhaps the best way to make the second round of the postseason is to be an ex-Cub rather than a current Cub. And so we find 45-year-old Jamie Moyer, who started with the Cubs, not only pitching in the National League Championship...Tags: Jamie Moyer, Nomar Garciaparra, All Stars, Joe Torre, Chicago Cubs
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Thinking big, indeed, at this year's Humanities Festival
So have you bought your ticket yet to the talk on the physics of time travel? The panel discussion on visual perspective? The six-hour unabridged performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"? What are you waiting for? Get your liberal arts...Tags: Tom Wolfe, Awards and Prizes, Crimes, Chicago Bears, Festive Event
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Swan song
In response to the Cubs' early post-season exit, I offer the following, sung to the tune of "Go, Cubs, Go," the chant commonly heard after each Cubs victory at Wrigley Field: Woe, Cubs, woe; woe, Cubs, woe; hey Chicago, whaddaya say, the Cubs have left me...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball, Baseball
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