Happy 100th, Wrigley Field: An Iconic Ballpark Through the Years — mashable.com

On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, Wrigley Field — home of the Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs — turns 100 years old, making it the second-oldest ballpark in the U.S., behind Boston's Fenway Park. Like Fenway, Wrigley has become a site of tremendous sentimental value to baseball fans, a brick-and-mortar incarnation of the game itself. The Cubs play the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday a game in which both teams will commemorate the first game played in the old ball yard. Cubs players will wear throwback Chi-Feds uniforms, representing the baseball team that first played at Wrigley. Diamondbacks players will wear Kansas City Packers uniforms, honoring the first game played at Wrigley Field between the Chi-Feds and the Packers back on April 23, 1914.

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