Happy
100th, Wrigley Field: An
Iconic Ballpark Through the Years
It's all grown up.
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014,
Wrigley Field — home of the
Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs — turns 100
Years old, making it
the second-oldest ballpark in the U.S., behind Boston's Fenway Park. Like Fenway,
Wrigley has become a site of tremendous sentimental value to baseball fans, a brick-and-mortar incarnation of the game itself
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The Cubs play the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday a game in which both teams will
commemorate the first game played in the old ball yard. Cubs players will wear throwback Chi-Feds uniforms, representing the
baseball team that first played at Wrigley. Diamondbacks players will wear Kansas City Packers uniforms, ho**ring the first game played at
Wrigley Field between the Chi-Feds and the Packers back on April 23, 1914.
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