Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wrigley, nestled into a rejuvenated neighborhood on Chicago's North Side, ivy-covered brick and the absence of lights provide a setting that has been a mainstay of National League competition since the turn of the century...
CHICAGO--Baseball fanatics know only two real ballparks in the major leagues: Boston's Fenway and Chicago's Wrigley Field...
...cars, houses and shops that line the streets surrounding Wrigley have proven prime targets for the four-bag shots that regularly pass the low wire fences behind the bleachers. There's no Fenway Green Monster to grab well-tagged liners, and the neighborhood kids make a regular habit of shagging street-bound balls off the bats of major league sluggers: souvenirs that come even without the cost of admission...
...Inside Wrigley, though, there is a very distinctive flavor, most of it found among the thin row of bleacher seats that line the left and right field corners. Every ballpark seems to attract its characters in the "cheap seats." Suntan lotion, lots of cold beer and a very vocal commentary on the lighter side of baseball often characterize the bleacher crowd. And the fans at Wrigley are no exception...
...know about what Rickie Lee calls "extensive education in music at home." Born in Chicago, hard by Wrigley Field, the third child of a couple "in the restaurant business" (which, from the ironic Jones argot, translates as "waiter and waitress"), Rickie Lee had a vagabond childhood. Her parents split up, reunited, drifted from state to state and job to job. Her father sang a lot, wrote his daughter a little tune called The Moon Is Made of Gold ("So don't feel bad because the sun went down/ The moon is made of gold"), which she includes...