Stuart Shea's Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography PDF

By Stuart Shea

Bathed in solar and suds, Wrigley box is domestic to the suitable baseball viewing adventure. the last word local ballpark serves as a type of time pill, transporting us to an period the place each park felt like an afternoon at Wrigley box. yet postcard thoughts apart, Wrigley’s sleek cachet is a distinct good fortune tale. From its building in 1914 by means of the implausibly profitable Charlie Weeghman (for a baseball group that was once now not the Chicago Cubs) to serving because the venue for George Halas’s Bears, Wrigley box has hosted many various sorts of sporting activities for America’s moment urban. Stuart Shea’s unprecedented historical past of Wrigley box records a park and its position in the surrounding neighborhood, its impression on who lives the place in Chicago and why, and as a house to groups and occasions that experience helped a urban outline itself.

Beyond Wrigley’s prestige as either a residing treasure and a old artifact, Shea seems to be on the present plans to renovate the park; the combative courting one of the team’s proprietors, the town, and the local; and the unusual combination of interdependence and mutual annoyance that experience handicapped efforts to maintain, advertise, and adapt the park to the twenty-first century. in contrast to the other heritage of a ballpark, this “unauthorized biography” chronicles the ballpark as a venue for women’s baseball, soccer, boxing, and football, between different activities. As Shea explains, the strain among previous and current, reminiscence and the long run, or the United States as we think it and because it is, has hardly been so good captured in a single place.

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