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Chicago’s Wrigley Field: What a Dump! Say It Ain’t So!

June 13, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

Peter Gammons, sports writer emeritus, has slandered Wrigley Field. See it here: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-10/sports/ct-spt-0611-brite-cubs-phillies-chica20110610_1_ricketts-family-chairman-tom-ricketts-wrigley-field Not since playwright Edward Albee’s seminal shrew Martha came into her house and puffed on her cigarette imitating Bette Davis has there been such a hue and cry over the charming little dump in Chicago. She cried out, “What a dump!” and then wanted her husband to guess which movie that line was from. “What movie was that?” Martha demanded of her husband.“Chicago,” said the henpecked husband. “Naaah, that was a musical with little Miss Alice Faye.” Today Martha’s husband might have said, “Field of Dreams, or ...

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