Ivy covered walls.
Day baseball.
Ernie Banks and “Let’s play two.”
Harry Carey and “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”
All of these are Wrigley Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago Cubs for 94 years.
Wrigley Field was built in 1914 and is the second oldest baseball field in continuous existence, second only to Fenway Park in Boston.
On the north side of Chicago, this baseball venue has existed ever since, although at first it was not called “Wrigley Field,” and it was not the home of the Cubs.
Charles Weeghman first built the stadium here, and it was built in just over a month beginning in March 1914. But at that time, the Cubs were playing on a different field in west Chicago.
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