Word: wrigley
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...still for nine innings?) Clever owners provide kids with plenty of options: face painting, amusement-park rides, pitching cages where they can track the speed of their fastball. And kids are a lot closer to the players than they would be in the upper deck at Wrigley Field. "The kids don't know the difference between Cubs players and Cougars," says longtime coach Matt Winters. "They know they had a good time...
...spring as well. While I like to complain as much as anyone, learning and teaching at Harvard—as a graduate student and then a lecturer—have been the most rewarding engagements of my adult life, ranking just behind my adolescent summer job hawking peanuts at Wrigley Field (in part because the earlier position paid slightly better...
...burned through his U.S. career like a comet. He belted three home runs on opening day in 1994, at Chicago's Wrigley Field. Then he flamed out, hitting just five more homers the rest of the season. After a couple of lackluster seasons, he came to Japan in 1996 to play for the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Osaka, where he quickly became a star. "They gave me a chance to play here," he says, gratefully. "They made my career possible." This year he is paying them back. While Ichiro is busy putting his signature on American baseball, Rhodes is threatening...
Peer pressure can hit lower-income families especially hard. George Valadez, a hot-dog and beer vendor at Chicago's Wrigley Field, has sole custody of his three young kids. His concept of being a good provider is to pour every spare cent into them. The family's two-bedroom apartment is crammed with five television sets, three video-game consoles and two VCRs. Next month his kids want to attend a church camp in Michigan that costs $100 a child. So two weeks ago, abandoning their custom of giving away outgrown clothes and toys to neighbors, the family held...
During baseball season, I am often reminded how easy it is to eulogize summer afternoons spent in the majestic embrace of ballparks like Yankee Stadium or Wrigley Field - memories of those storied parks always seem to wear a patina of easy grace. Evincing rose-colored memories of childhood Sundays in the hulking concrete-and-Astroturf confines of Three Rivers Stadium, on the other hand, requires either a certain predisposition to sentimentality or early-onset memory loss...