Renaming Wrigley Field

[legelegel]

Everything and everyone is for sale in sports now.


We all know the Tribune Company, which owns both the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, are trying to sell them off. They even want to sell them separately, the team to a private owner and the stadium to a state agency that would renovate the ballpark.

But now prior to the sale, Sam Zell the Trib’s CEO, has stated that he’d like to sell the naming rights to the park.


http://soxanddawgs.com/?p=3531

[WesTxAg]

rome had a pretty good burn on that owner today

[hmiles619]

Everything and everyone is for sale in sports now.



It's always been for sale....where do you think they got the "Wrigley" name originally?

[WesTxAg]

It's always been for sale....where do you think they got the "Wrigley" name originally?
:laugh: :laugh:

[hmiles619]

Wrigley Field shares its name with the Wrigley Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wm._Wrigley_Jr._Company), as the park was named for its then-owner, William Wrigley Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wrigley_Jr.), the CEO of the Wrigley Company. As early as the 1920s, before the park became officially known as Wrigley Field, the scoreboard was topped by the elf-like "Doublemint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublemint) Twins", posed as a pitcher and a batter. There were also ads painted on the bare right field wall early in the ballpark's history, prior to the 1923 remodeling which put bleachers there. After that, the Doublemint elves were the only visible in-park advertising. The elves were removed permanently in 1937 when the bleachers and scoreboard were rebuilt. It would be about 45 years before in-park advertising would reappear.

from wiki

[whitelightnin_23]

tee hee...:gig:

[legelegel]

It's always been for sale....where do you think they got the "Wrigley" name originally?

Always? Not always.

Hell, tear the thing down and the one in Boston and build new ones. Just do it after I die.

I can tell I have failed to reach any Cub fans.

[texags08]

i think this is crap... it shouold stay the same... it has been around for WAY too long... Then again, the cowboys are moving...