Rick Morrissey and Rick Telander remember Wrigley Field

Dave Berkson
    The crummy old ball park on the Northside of Chicago turned a hundred years old. They had big celebrations on the field instead of discussions why a world class city does not have a world class bigger stadium to host baseball and sporting events. Somehow Cub fans love this old ballpark instead of looking on it as a sign of generational cheapness among the various owners of the Chicago Cubs. Ou think there might be a correlation to why this team never wins championships with the fact that the ownership was unwilling to give the fans a modern ballpark back in say the sixties or seventies? This dawned on me thinking to why the Chicago Cubs have always been historically an awful baseball club as you never had owners who wanted to improve. The facilities except for putting up some weeds on the fence back in the thirties. I never really saw the draw and love of the Ivy wall and that old ugly scoreboard. The seating is terrible and the reason the Cubs draw so well is because the Northside is filled with yuppies and Wrigley Field is the oly place old suburbanites or Iowa folks would be willing to get courageous and venture into the city. I wish some sports writers like Telander and the other lame Rick named Morrissey wold exposé this fact and it has nothing to do with the ballpark or the team. The two Ricks wrote a loving memorable piece of their love for the old ballpark and their history of it but as I said changing demographics of outs and the sports they play will make this park useless for sporting events in the future. The future of Wrigley Field is as a concert venue for twenty something's who likely will prefer music than a lame ball game for a nights entertainment. Wrigley Field will be history one way or another and any funding for its continuous use as a baseball park will just be money ill spent. Much like money spent at a Cubs game all these years from the suckers willing to accept the product on the field.