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Friendly Confines Still a Baseball Mecca Failings Seem to Be Easier to Absorb That Love Affair, According to Will, Grounds Home USA TODAY SPORTS WEEKLY APRIL 23—29, 2014 7 Wrigley Field at 100 By Dennis Wierzbicki, USA TODAY Sports Field of dreams: The home of the Cubs, which hasn’t hosted a World Series game since 1945, is best known for its ivy-covered outfield walls, hand-turned scoreboard and daytime baseball. Friendly Confines still a baseball mecca failings seem to be easier to absorb that love affair, according to Will, Grounds home. The teams in 1906 Fans’ love affair with iconic when you’re sitting in such a gor- has played a key role in the team’s through 1910 had the best five- geous, stately venue. poor on-field performance. season winning percentage in Like Shea, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Calling A Nice Little Place on the Major League Baseball history Cubs’ home like no other writer George Will is one of a num- North Side a “business book, about a (.693). Before moving into Wrigley ber of noteworthy authors who business model that failed,” Will in 1916, the team won a stunning By Joe Mock originally fought at every turn — its have penned books on Wrigley to notes the loyalty of the fans and 465 more games than it lost (1,219- BaseballParks.com rich history is the talk of baseball. coincide with the 100th anniversary their enthusiasm for coming to 754) starting in 1903. But why does it seem as if the of its opening, which occurred Wrigley for the experience of the It hasn’t gone so well since. The point of Wrigley Field is to glorious aspects of this famous April 23, 1914. Will told USA TODAY venue meant they weren’t all that During the final seasons at crum- display baseball games. ... And just as venue outnumber the accomplish- Sports that he is a Cubs fan for life demanding about wins and losses. bling West Side Grounds, the Cubs a frame can serve, or be inappropriate ments of its tenants? Even more because “I have a nagging fear that If “attendance might’ve varied and organized baseball fought to for, a particular painting, ballparks perplexing: Why do Cub fans con- if I ever stopped following them, more directly and more dramat- keep the upstart Federal League can display ball games well or poorly. tinue to fill its grandstand and they’d start winning.” ically with the success on the field, from basing a franchise on the city’s ... Wrigley Field is lovelier than the bleachers as the memory of the Indeed, the play of the Cubs over it would’ve provided a much more growing, untapped North Side. baseball often played on the field. team’s last appearance in the World the years can be characterized as powerful incentive to improve Ed Hartig, who for 20 years has — George Will, A Nice Little Place Series in 1945 has long since faded? ugly more often than not. After what was going on on the field,” acted as the Cubs’ unofficial team on the North Side: Wrigley Field at As Stuart Shea, author of Wrigley sporadic stints of success, the Cubs Will said. historian, said the National League One Hundred Field: The Long Life and Contentious have suffered through unparalleled even had “an ingenious plan” to Times of the Friendly Confines, puts futility. From 1948 through 2013, Outlasting upstart franchise have an agent acquire a slice of the CHICAGO — As the sport cele- it, Wrigley is “a place where good the team went 4,871-5,564 (.467). The most dominant squads in the property that had been selected for brates the 100th birthday of one of memories are created and bad Despite this, the love affair be- franchise’s history played in the the Federal League venue in an its great cathedrals — the construc- memories are ameliorated.” tween the fan base and the team’s first decade of the 20th century, attempt to thwart the plan to con- tion of which the Chicago Cubs As Shea points out, the team’s venue is unrivaled in sports — and when the Cubs called West Side struct a park at the corner of Clark 8 APRIL 23—29, 2014 USA TODAY SPORTS WEEKLY the team’s star was Hack Wilson, The 1960s were a particularly winner of four home run titles and brutal decade at Wrigley, as the holder of the MLB record for RBI in a team had a pair of 103-loss seasons season (191, in 1930). and a for-the-ages collapse at the In time for the 1927 season, the end of the 1969 season. And the team renamed the park in honor of fans noticed. owner William Wrigley and greatly “Attendance fell far behind the expanded seating. The result: the rest of the league,” said Pathy, add- first NL team to top 1 million in ing, “Wrigley Field was not consid- attendance. ered a great place to watch baseball Wrigley’s son P.K. became the in the 1960s.” owner of the team in 1932, and he The team won two division titles made no secret that the experience in the 1980s, and night baseball of coming to Wrigley Field was finally arrived. On the magical date more important to him than of 8/8/88, lights illuminated Wrig- whether the team won. ley Field for the first time, only to have the game rained out in the Early 20th century success fourth inning. While the team won the NL A wild-card berth came to the pennant in its third season at Wrig- Friendly Confines in 1998, and three ley, it is a run of four NL crowns in division titles in the following dec- 10 seasons (1929 through 1938) that ade, but everyone remembers 2003. represents the high-water mark for The date was Oct. 14, 2003, the team during its Wrigley years. Game 6 of the NL Championship The 1932 club faced the mighty Series. The Cubs held a three-run New York Yankees in the World lead on the Florida Marlins with five File photo by Chicago History Museum via AP Series, and what the matchup outs to go to bring the first World Days gone by: Fans line up outside Weeghman Park, home of the Chicago Whales, in 1914. The Whales were re- lacked in drama (New York won in Series to Wrigley since 1945. placed as the ballpark’s home team by the Cubs in 1916, and Weeghman Park was renamed Wrigley Field in 1927. a sweep) it made up for in folklore. That’s when fan Steve Bartman In Game 3, Wrigley’s overflow deflected a pop foul from Cubs left Cubs to party like it’s 1914 crowd and the Cubs players in the fielder Moises Alou — and the game dugout howled with every pitch to quickly unraveled for the home The Chicago Cubs are throwing a Babe Ruth. After a gesture (at the team. The Cubs ended up losing in 100th birthday party for Wrigley Field bleachers? At the home dugout? At inglorious fashion 8-3 and lost the on April 23, a century after the Chi- the pitcher?), “The Bambino” blast- next night to the Marlins in Game 7. cago Federals opened the stadium against the Kansas City Packers. ed one of the longest homers — and Many turned their disappoint- The Cubs will wear Federals throw- most debated as a “called shot” — in ment into hatred toward the fan in back uniforms, and the Arizona the ballpark’s history. the green turtleneck wearing head- Diamondbacks will wear the Federal The Cubs’ next shining star was phones involved in the Alou play. League uniforms of the Kansas City catcher Gabby Hartnett. He hit the “Bartman did nothing wrong,” team. “The sights and sounds at the “Homer in the Gloamin’,” a blast Will recalls. “(He) was surrounded ballpark that day will reflect the into Wrigley’s lightless dusk that by fans trying to do the same thing.” ballpark experience from a century won a crucial game against the The reaction of the fans “was really ago, including music, graphics and Pittsburgh Pirates in 1938 and quite ugly.” even elements of the game broad- propelled his team to the pennant. cast,” the team said in a statement. Foundation for a winner? Among other plans: Sam Pathy, author of the compre- uThe first 30,000 fans will get a hensive Wrigley Field Year by Year: A The current owners have as- replica 1914 Chicago Federals jersey Century at the Friendly Confines, sembled impressive talent in the and the first 10,000 fans will receive a birthday cupcake. called that game “the best singular front office, and that suggests on- uCubs legends are expected to Cub event in the park’s first field success is a priority. take their former positions on the 50 years.” Hartig, however, disagrees with field for the pregame ceremonies The 1945 season saw many of the Will that Wrigley Field is to blame (listed in alphabetical order): Ernie Banks (shortstop), Glenn Beckert game’s stars serving their country for the poor showing in the stand- (second baseman), Andre Dawson during World War II. It also saw the ings over the years. (right fielder), Ryan Dempster (pitch- Cubs play in the Fall Classic ... with “You can trace the Cubs’ failings er), Bobby Dernier (center fielder), no trips since. As was the case with to ... very poor (front office) deci- Randy Hundley (catcher), Fergie Jenkins (pitcher), Gary Matthews (left the previous six World Series in sions that put them 10 years behind 1955 AP photo fielder), Milt Pappas (pitcher), Lee which the Cubs participated, the (other teams),” Hartig said.
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