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2. Wrigley Field - Wikipedia

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   100005739 [5] 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 Federal League, which folded after the 1915 baseball season ...

3. History of Wrigley Field - Wikipedia

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   In their place, Weeghman had wooden bleachers erected from the left-field corner to center field, raising the park's capacity to roughly 18,000. The scoreboard was relocated to center field, where it has remained in one form or another since then (with the exception of the latter part of the 1937 season during construction of the current ...

4. Charles Weeghman - Wikipedia

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   Charles Weeghman. Charles Henry Weeghman (March 8, 1874 – November 1, 1938) was an American [1] restaurant entrepreneur and sports executive. Beginning in 1901, he began opening quick-service lunch counters throughout downtown Chicago. [2][3] After failing to acquire the St. Louis Cardinals baseball club in 1911, he became one of the founders ...

5. Chicago Whales - Wikipedia

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   While Weeghman himself was forced out within four years due to financial troubles, the Cubs still play in the park he built to this day, the only Federal League park still in use. It was renamed Cubs Park in 1920 and acquired its present name, Wrigley Field, in 1926.

6. West Side Park - Wikipedia

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   A scoreboard was located on the extreme right end of the billboard, toward the right field corner. Much like today at Wrigley Field, several of the rooftops beyond the outfield bleachers offered bleacher seating of their own, at least for a few years. The second West Side Park was the home of the Cubs' most successful teams of the 20th century.

7. Remembering Wrigley Field's football history ahead of Iowa ...

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   November 2, 2023 at 7:03 AM. The Iowa Hawkeyes will become the latest program to join the long list of teams to play a football game at Wrigley Field, the iconic baseball home of the Chicago Cubs ...

8. List of events at Wrigley Field - Wikipedia

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   1920. June 26, 1920: In a high-school "inter-state championship" game between New York City's Commerce High and Chicago's Lane Tech, just-turned-17 New York player Lou Gehrig slugs a grand slam to lead his team to a comeback victory. October 10, 1920: First professional football game at Cubs Park.

9. Federal League - Wikipedia

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   One of baseball's most famous ballparks was originally built for a Federal League team: Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs, began its long life as Weeghman Park, the home of the Chicago Whales. Marc Okkonen, in his book on the Federal League, referred to Wrigley as a "silent monument" to the failed Federal League experiment.