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Hello everyone.
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I'm larry Evans, their history.
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The famous stadium that I chose today to talk interesting
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facts about would be regular field.
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It's the home of the Chicago cooks.
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Um It was established in 1914 is the second longest
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um baseball stadium around that still to this day.
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So yeah here's a picture right here of the outside
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front area for you of the Wrigley field.
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Like I said it was the second oldest stadium baseball
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stadium known to man in the U.
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S. Um It's right behind a Fenway park which is
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which was which is home to the Red Sox baseball
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team with the Red sox play.
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One interesting fact about regular field is that the scoreboard
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was was built in 1937 and it has been there
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Um since 1937 and it's still there to this date.
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Um It is a manual scoreboard so they change it
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manually. It's one of the only manual scoreboards that's left
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in baseball.
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If I'm not mistaken in this picture right here, as
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you can see, you have fans that are on top
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of apartment buildings and um, condos and complexes where they
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get to watch the game At the top of the
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field of the baseball field.
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And this didn't become a problem at regular field.
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And for the Cubs organization into the 1990s where, um,
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their apartment owners and the condo owners were um, charging
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fans to watch the game from their rooftops of the
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apartments and condos and the Chicago cubs had a problem
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with it at first, but they talked with the owners
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and um, and they all decided to, um, their share
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it there.
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The owners decided to give the Chicago cubs a piece
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of their earnings from the people that come and pay
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to watch the games and the colors decided not to
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build a fence to block the route the field for
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the, from the fans in this, in this picture here
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in the design.
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Um, this is years later as Wrigley Field has been
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renovated, but Um, the lights weren't, the lights for the
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baseball field weren't, um, integrated and added to the feeling
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to 1988, but one of the greatest home runs ever
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in baseball history of one of the only, um, shot
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called home runs in baseball history was by the great
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bathe roof.
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And it happened at Wrigley Field in the 1932 World
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Series, and that happened at Wrigley Field.
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So regular field has had some historic, historic, um, historic
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things that happen throughout this time.