Wrigley Field
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baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois, USA; home venue of the Chicago Cubs
Key facts
- Former names
- Weeghman Park (1914–1920), Cubs Park (1920–1926)
- Address
- 1060 West Addison Street
- Location
- Chicago , Illinois, U.S.
- Owner
- Ricketts family
- Operator
- Chicago Cubs
- Capacity
- 41,649
- Surface
- Merion bluegrass
- Record attendance
- 47,171 , (August 31, 1948 vs. Brooklyn Dodgers )
- Field size
- Left field – 355 ft (108.2 m), Left-center – 368 ft (112.2 m), Center field – 400 ft (121.9 m), Right-center – 368 ft (112.2 m), Right field – 353 ft (107.6 m), Backstop – 55 ft (16.8 m), Outfield wall height: , Bleachers – 11 ft 6 in (3.5 m), Corners – 15 ft (4.6 m)
- Public transit
- Red at Addison
- Groundbreaking
- March 4, 1911 ; 115 years ago ( 1911-03-04 )
- Opened
- April 23, 1914 ; 112 years ago ( 1914-04-23 )
- Renovated
- 1937, 1988, 2014–2019
- Expanded
- 1922, 1927, 2006
- Construction cost
- US$ 250,000, (US$8.04 million in 2025 dollars )
- Architect
- Zachary Taylor Davis
- General contractor
- Blome-Sinek Company
- Designated
- February 1, 2004
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Encyclopedic overview
Wrigley Field (/ˈrɪɡli/) is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago Whales of the Federal League, which folded after the 1915 baseball season. The Cubs played their first home game at the park on April 20, 1916, defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings. Chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. of the Wrigley Company acquired the Cubs in 1921. It was named Cubs Park from 1920 to 1926, before changing its name to Wrigley Field in 1927. The stadium currently seats 41,649 people.
In the North Side community area of Lakeview in the Wrigleyville neighborhood, Wrigley Field is on an irregular block bounded by Clark and Addison streets to the west and south, and Waveland and Sheffield avenues to the north and east. Wrigley Field is nicknamed "The Friendly Confines", a phrase popularized by Hall of Fame shortstop and first baseman Ernie Banks. The oldest park in the National League, it is the second-oldest in the majors after Fenway Park (1912), and the only remaining Federal League park. The park was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2020.
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