Walkoff Walk (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Look, we're all too exhausted -- mentally and physically -- to post anything right now. Here's a story about a catlady and a cat who ran onto Wrigley Field during a game. Other cats on field: Kauffman Stadium, U.S....
Bleed Cubbie Blue (Free subscription) | yesterday
BCB photo by David Sameshima, Saturday, November 7, 2009 View full size photo » Demolition barricades surround the former Yum Yum Donut Shop on Clark St. next to Wrigley Field. The building has been used for Cubs offices in recent years; it will soon be demolished, the first step toward clearing the site for construction of the Triangle Building.
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Chicago Cubs have become the first major-league team to have an openly gay owner according to the Windy City Times. On Oct. 30, the Ricketts family became the new owners of MLB team, the Chicago Cubs. The family bought the team and Wrigley Field for $845 million. Laura Ricketts, one of the purchasers, is an open lesbian who serves on the board for Lambda Legal, the nationwide advocacy...
stanley72paq | 07/11/2009
CHICAGO – Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team's long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one. "I'll be honest. I think we have a team that can do it next year," Tom Ricketts said without hesitation Friday at a Wrigley Field news conference.
knuckleheadnyc (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... me away from the act of enjoying baseball but as a kid in Batavia, IL I had followed the Cubs. Wrigley Field was the first place I ever saw a Major League game on great afternoon field trip with a bunch of kids on a yellow school bus. Ernie Banks, Ron Santo and the great broadcaster Jack Brickhouse kept me dialed into the Cubs. I followed the Cubs coverage in the Chicago Tribune,...
Fanster - All Sports. All Phoenix. (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It seems like an eternity since the Arizona Diamondbacks took the field, but in fact, it’s been only 32 days since the D-Backs beat the Cubs 5-2 at Wrigley Field to put the wraps on a disappointing 70-win season. But it’s not the offseason for everyone in the D-Backs’ organization. Seven players are showing their stuff in [...]
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
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365 Gay News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Chicago Cubs have become the first major-league team to have an openly gay owner according to the Windy City Times . On Oct. 30, the Ricketts family became the new owners of MLB team, the Chicago Cubs. The family bought the team and Wrigley Field for $845 million. Laura Ricketts, one of the purchasers, is an open lesbian who serves on the board for Lambda Legal, the nationwide advocacy...
jordoncooper.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
CBC is quoting the NDP in saying that a new domed stadium would cost $600 million and I can’t see it as Ford Field only cost $430 million and is twice the projected size but whether or not they are right or wrong, I am not sure a dome stadium is a good idea [...]
cameo9p056 | 04/11/2009
CHICAGO – Tom Ricketts and his family took ownership of the Chicago Cubs and wasted no time making a promise to the team's long-suffering fans: They will bring a World Series title to a team that has gone 101 years without one. "I'll be honest. I think we have a team that can do it next year," Tom Ricketts said without hesitation Friday at a Wrigley Field news conference.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... made his father "very emotional."Well, 9 years is a long time.The wailing you hear is coming from Wrigley Field.Last night's reascension was not without a few pleasant moments.Japan's most fearsome import to date, designated hitter Hideki Matsui, drove in six runs last night, tying the Series record set by the Yankees' Bobby Richardson in 1960. He finished at .615 with three home...
ESPN (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... state-of-the-art, year-round facilities that would include at least three major league-quality fields, much like the new complex built for the and in Glendale, Ariz. The Cubs will insist that the ballpark must have similar dimensions and many of the physical characteristics of Wrigley Field, Levine reported.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--If you’re headed to Chicago for a game at Wrigley Field, the United Center, U.S. Cellular Field or Soldier Field, book a stay at the ideally situated Hotel Blake so you can see your favorite sports team in action, then relax in a warm, welcoming hotel room and, perhaps, sneak in a visit to some of the city’s famous sights. With Hotel...
Sassafrass (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The training was harder. But I treated it like an A-student doing a social studies project. I walked and I walked and I walked. I walked miles and miles to Wrigley Field and back in a thunderstorm. I walked up and down side streets in neighborhood after neighborhood. I walked on treadmills next to the old men in tube socks and slippers who live at the Y. I walked on forest preserve trails...
Mizozo (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... out to her family in her 30s. The Ricketts family has 95 percent controlling interest in the team, Wrigley Field and 25 percent of Comcast Sports Net. Of the Ricketts family, Pete, Todd, Tom and Laura make up the board of directors, with Tom as chairman. Ricketts said "I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative...
