Wrigley Field: the Unauthorized Biography (Paperback) Stuart Shea

Effective immediately this title is no longer available from Potomac Books Inc. All rights have reverted to the author. Thanks Sam Dorrance @ Potomac Books Bathed in sun and suds Wrigley Field is home to the perfect baseball viewing experience. The ultimate neighborhood ballpark serves as a sort of time capsule transporting us to an era where every park felt like a day at Wrigley Field. But postcard memories aside Wrigley s modern cachet is a unique success story. From its construction in 1914 by the implausibly successful Charlie Weeghman (for a baseball team that was not the Chicago Cubs) to serving as the venue for George Halas s Bears Wrigley Field has hosted many different kinds of sporting events for America s second city. Stuart Shea s unparalleled history of Wrigley Field documents a park and its place within the surrounding community its influence on who lives where in Chicago and why and as a home to teams and events that have helped a city define itself. Beyond Wrigley s status as both a living treasure and a historical artifact Shea looks at the current plans to renovate the park; the combative relationship among the team s owners the city and the neighborhood; and the strange blend of interdependence and mutual annoyance that have handicapped efforts to preserve promote and adapt the park to the twenty-first century. Unlike any other history of a ballpark this unauthorized biography chronicles the ballpark as a venue for women s baseball football boxing and socce