This
is a good week for ballpark anniversaries.
On April 20, 1912, Fenway Park and Tiger Stadium both opened. (The first time I saw Tiger Stadium on color
TV my jaw dropped. The blue of the home
uniforms, the green field, the Edison-white of the bulbs in the scoreboard all
made me want to go there, which, unfortunately, I never did.) Four years later to the day, the Cubs moved
into their new home, the former Weeghman Park.
It would be renamed Wrigley Field in 1926. This is one South Sider who would stick the
overused modifier “iconic” on the Friendly Confines.
While
we’re at it, let’s not forget April 18, 1991, when my White Sox opened what
they tried to pass off as the new Comiskey Park, which was and is a mall by any
other name. The Tigers ruined the grand
opening by a score of 16-0. That’s
karma, my friends.
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