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Wrigley Field. / 41.94806°N 87.65556°W / 41.94806; -87.65556. Wrigley Field / ˈrɪɡli / is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball 's Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman 's Chicago Whales of the ...
The Chicago Cubs swept the White Sox in the first weekend series at Wrigley Field, and the White Sox subsequently swept the Cubs at U.S. Cellular Field during the second weekend series, thus splitting the series 3–3 and resulting in an all-time inter-league series tie of 33–33 through 2008.
The original idea was to have the job completed by the opening of the 1927 season, but by April, only the third-base side of the upper deck had been completed, temporarily giving the park a startlingly asymmetrical appearance. Cubs Park was formally renamed Wrigley Field prior to the start of the 1927 season.
Back in the opening week of the 2006 season, in a Chicago Tribune article accompanied by cartoonist Rick Tuma’s illustrations, I offered some predictions of what a Wrigley Field experience would ...
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JULY 24: Jackson Chourio #11 of the Milwaukee Brewers hits a RBI single in the first inning off Justin Steele of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on July 24, 2024 in Chicago ...
Wrigley has housed the Chicago Cubs since it was built in 1914, but also was home of the NFL Chicago Bears from 1921-70 and Chicago Cardinals from 1931-38. Playing at Wrigley will be cool – and ...
List of baseball parks in Chicago. West Side Park (II) South Side Park (III) Comiskey Park. Wrigley Field. U.S. Cellular Field. This is a list of venues used for professional baseball in Chicago. The information is a synthesis of the information contained in the references listed.
Games between the two clubs see numerous visiting fans in either St. Louis's Busch Stadium or Chicago's Wrigley Field. When the NL split into two divisions in 1969, and later three divisions in 1994, the Cardinals and Cubs remained together. The Cubs lead the regular season series 1,273–1,221–19.