Wrigley Field through the years *Before and After*

Wrigley Field is a Cathedral to baseball

Growing up in the 80's and coming home from school and watching the cubs was a thing. Fuck lights

Wrigley field needs more design too and add new design too it getting old too 😂

Wrigley has the worst restrooms in the MLB. 😅😅

You do a great job and stadiums are my favorite. However, you are good enough to make better transitions at the end of you vids. Lol. Keep up the great work! We should do some games and tours for your channel?

Lambeau field next please

Once a dump, always a dump

I do hate the cubs but Wrigley Field is a rare gem. A gift of the past.

As far as I know the NFL Cardinals when they were based in Chicago never played football at Wrigley Field. Instead, they played at the larger capacity old Comiskey Park from 1929-59 before moving to Sportsman's Park in St. Louis in 1960. However, the Chicago Bears played football on Wrigley Field from 1921-70 even though they had the far larger and much more football appropriat demensionally Soldier Field since 1924 on the lakefront.

The wind isn't as crazy as it was in the 1970's The weather was pretty wild in Chicago from 1976 to about 1984. In 1983 we had a massive summer Heatwave after years of very cold winters

You are 100% spot on D.G. with regard to the wind at Wrigley Field , the jet stream has made a dramatic shift over the last 15 years and is now settled over central Kentucky ; may sound crazy but it’s true.
Sidebar , I hate those giant video boards ….

I can tell you that the bar area around Wrigley field was/is tremendous. I met so many Stars. I can tell you that they hated Steve Garvey( 1984 Padres), Joe Morgan( Comments he made about the Cubs), the White Sox/ Brewers and the Fardinals 😅. Oh yeah, at that time Steve Hartman. Steve Garvey was very nice to me when talking to me. Those guys I grew up watching in the 1970's and 80's.

I worked for the Cubs for 4 years. I was there when the old bleachers ended in 2005 and when they had the walking area in back of the bleachers along with that restaurant behind the Ivy in 2006.
Yes I had to go in that middle area to get a home run ball out. Gave it to a kid on many occasions. Oh yeah, I was there for the Jimmy Buffett Concert in 2005 and Sting was next. That old field in 2005 was really bad. They got a new field in 2006.

There’s nothing in baseball like a Wrigley bleacher game

no "alright guys" in the intro and I almost exited the video

Great video of Wrigley and very interesting. Learning about the history of Wrigley

Go Cubs!

I just took a trip to Boston for memorial day weekend, and got to visit Fenway on a tour, next stadium is Wrigley... Amazing video, man!

That’s a true ballpark that will NEVER be torn down, the Cubs will be playing there for many many many more years and many more memories to come at Wrigley Field

I just realized it doesn’t add to 2023 it adds to 2029 it has really existed for 106 years😅

What will be in 2050 who knows... Just being now as a "National Historic Landmark" one of just over 2,600 I believe Nationwide. It is to preserved it and even with Fenway on the "National Registry of Historic" places of over 90,000. It too has a aim of preservation. Tax breaks too they like.

The old the old L elevated train RED line infrastructure thru Chicago...and it's the Red line elevated from downtown that goes by Wrigley with a Addison St stop. It too is well over 100 yrs old and keeps getting preserved. Seems it was recommended and eligible since 2012 for the National Registry of Historic Places.... but I do not think it was officially adopted as one?

👉🏿 this is a message to all teams that have a stadium get it done right the first time with clever engineering and also in a good location therefore you never have to worry about Stadium politics

Here’s a great trivia question for baseball history loonies like me: “Where was the first Wrigley Field?”

It was in Los Angeles!

Chicago’s Wrigley Field was built earlier, but originally called Weeghman Field. Cubs owner Phil Wrigley (the chewing gum magnate) purchased the team and the stadium and renamed it Cubs Park. A few years later, Wrigley had a new stadium built in LA for the Cubs’ minor league club in 1925 and it was called Wrigley Field. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Cubs Park was not renamed Wrigley Field until 1927.

Wrigley Field is the last ballpark still in existence where Jackie Robinson played a game.

I have not been to Wrigley since they put in the lights.and I won't either.

We're still better.

This is one of your best videos

One correction is that while everyone knows it was originally built as Weeghman Park for the Federal League Chicago Whales, when the Federal League was basically bought out by MLB after the 1916 season, part of the settlement was that Wales owner Charles Weeghman was allowed to buy the Chicago Cubs as compensation for losing his Federal League team (this also happened in St. Louis where the owner of the St. Louis FL team, Phil Ball, ended up buying the St. Louis Browns & Sportsman's Park). PK Wrigley didn't become Cubs owner till the 1920's, when it finally became Wrigley Field.

I saw a game there once in 2000. Cubs vs Giants. Got an autograph from Chip Carry. I remember coming from school the Cubs would be on WGN.

Greatest place to watch a baseball game

Love the classic aspects of Wrigley but its a really boring ballpark. Sadly the better ones werent saved

What's unique about Wrigley Field is that it's one of the hardest fields to hit a home run, despite it not being the biggest stadium in MLB.

One of the quirks for football is they always have the offense going towards the same endzone. So when possession changes they turn the teams around.

Go Cubs!

Zachary smart unlike current designers

No keep it

Also I do wish they would modernize some of the stands too like you had mentioned before. There are massive poles in the lower stands which really block views if you are sitting close to them.

Great video! I do miss the tiny scoreboard under the centerfield one. They took it away once the two new ones were put up, when you are watching a game it’s very hard to see basic stats like balls strikes and outs etc. that mini board used to help with that stuff too.

Great stadium 🏟