Word: wrigley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some guys can just hold an audience. In baseball, no matter the score, fans have never left the park until Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Willie Mays or Junior Griffey has had his last turn at-bat. And at Wrigley Field, even if the Cubs trailed by 10, no one ever left before Harry Caray sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Only then was the experience complete. Hey, Elvis, wherever you are--your pal Harry has left the building...
...Wrigley's spearmint...
...sure will understand my gripes. At 66, Don Zimmer is entering his 48th year in professional baseball and has become a kind of elder statesman of the game. Zimmer's had a first hand look at the rise of free agency, the inauguration of night games at Wrigley Field, the introduction of divisional play and the institution of the designated hitter. The one-time player, coach and manager is currently the bench coach for the New York Yankees...
Despite some impressive addresses--the Sears Tower, the Wrigley Building--the heart of District 7 is the tough ghetto west of the Loop. That could explain why Davis won the primary despite a controversial endorsement from a local gangster...
...ancestral homes of the Tigers, Red Sox and Yankees tell much different stories, of Ty Cobb and Ted Williams and Babe Ruth. These parks, and safe-for-now Wrigley Field, are baseball's Libraries of Alexandria, the repositories for its greatest treasures. The memories, which distinguish baseball from every other American sport, are the reasons we can't give up the game even after it abandons...