As summer hits its sweet spot in Chicago and the Cubs dangle between being buyers and sellers at the trade deadline, it’s as good a time as any to acknowledge the magnetic draw Wrigley has on baseball fans, writes Paul Sullivan.
Back in the opening week of the 2006 season, in a Chicago Tribune article accompanied by cartoonist Rick Tuma’s illustrations, I offered some predictions of what a Wrigley Field experience would be like 20 years in the future.
Though three years remain until 2026, I’ve given up on most of my predictions, some of which were purposely silly, such as “rent-a-glove booths” for fans and a section of the right-field bleachers officially designated as “Wooville,” followed by a proposal from an alderman to eliminate Wooville as a “neighborhood nuisance.
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