Comments on: 10 Facts About Wrigley Field

By: Cliff Blau

Cliff Blau — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:42:50 +0000

The first night game at Wrigley Field actually was an All American Girls Professional Baseball League All-Star game in, I think, 1945. They used portable lights.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:54:51 +0000

Kevin, my grandfather attended the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary at least 2 years (before finishing up at Augustana Seminary in Rock Island). Years ago I heard family lore about his classroom for New Testament Greek or something being right at the current pitcher’s mound. I’ve also read of a more recent professor at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (in Hyde Park), a Cub fan, who would claim some such connection with the Cubs’ bullpen (in LF foul territory).

In fact, though, there were only four seminary buildings, and they were all up close to Waveland Avenue:

1. The seminary president’s house was pretty much at the corner of Waveland & Sheffield, where the CF scoreboard now rises.

2. A large “Old Main” type of building–holding the classrooms, library, and I think chapel–stood where the left-field bleachers are. During the Chicago Federals’ (and the park’s) first season, 1914, this building was still standing out there, its south-facing main entrance almost right up on the LF fence (there are pics you can find)! This building was torn down to make room for bleachers for the 1915 season of the Whales (as they were renamed). (The Federal League went under after this season, but Whales owner Charley Weeghman bought the Cubs and moved them to Weeghman Park for 1916.)

3, 4. The pair of professors’ apartment buildings stood much longer where the LF grandstands now run practically to Waveland. These grandstands originally extended only halfway between 3B and the LF corner, and the teams (Whales and Cubs) rented out the apartments for extra income!

The seminary owned approx. the northern 2/3 of the Wrigley megablock, down into the current infield at least, but besides these four buildings, the rest of the property was left open. So, there were no seminary buildings ever on the actual playing field soil. There were buildings unrelated to the seminary along Addison, but I don’t know whether any extended as far north as the pitcher’s mound site.

By: umokayno

umokayno — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:16:16 +0000

Wrong. Harry Caray was singing Take Me Out to The Ballgame for the White Sox YEARS before he did it at Wrigley. The Cubs just take credit for the tradition because the Cubs suck and never win. Don’t be fooled! Go to a Sox game instead when you’re in Chicago.

By: Airile

Airile — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:33:07 +0000

Andy, you give the Sox’(proper grammar check needed) fans a bad name. I myself am a Sox fan, but the Cubs are pretty sweet too. And Wrigley is byfar the best stadium. Just walking in gives me such a sense of nostalgia, it’s amazing.

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:27:00 +0000

#11. The Cubs still suck.

By: Sags

Sags — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:27:00 +0000

#10
Harry Caray began singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame when he was the White Sox announcer, not the Cubs announcer.

By: Thanksgiving Recipes

Thanksgiving Recipes — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:04:00 +0000

it looks like it will be another cold and lonely october for wrigley

By: ananmoose

ananmoose — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:45:26 +0000

To extend on #7. “Wrigley Field once held the record for the most NFL games played in a single stadium with 365 regular season NFL games, but this record was surpassed in September 2003 by Giants Stadium in New Jersey, thanks to its dual-occupancy by the New York Giants and New York Jets.”

By: Levitra

Levitra — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:56:40 +0000

this is one park i have to get to. i am from new york and love yankee stadium but i have always wanted to see wrigley

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:21:38 +0000

to Anniefromtexas,
In order to truely hate your enemy, you must first know your enemy.

Go Sox