A few more pix from Chicago. St. Louis has one of its big annual photo-ops this Saturday but I'll have to scrape along until then.
Going to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field is a deep experience for a baseball fan. Above, our group gets ready to board a Red Line CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) train at Chicago Avenue, near our hotel. We took it to Addison Avenue, right next to the stadium.
Of course, it's squeezed into a neighborhood, known as Wrigleyville. The stadium is so small that people have built grandstands on top of the small apartment buildings across the street (now mostly converted to bars).
Below, the back of the lower deck of seats late in the game, with a very old-fashioned scoreboard. Cubs win! Cubs win!
I mentioned that the the Cubs have not won the championship in over a century. Our St. Louis Cardinals have done so eleven times.
Going to a Cubs game at Wrigley Field is a deep experience for a baseball fan. Above, our group gets ready to board a Red Line CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) train at Chicago Avenue, near our hotel. We took it to Addison Avenue, right next to the stadium.
Of course, it's squeezed into a neighborhood, known as Wrigleyville. The stadium is so small that people have built grandstands on top of the small apartment buildings across the street (now mostly converted to bars).
Below, the back of the lower deck of seats late in the game, with a very old-fashioned scoreboard. Cubs win! Cubs win!
I mentioned that the the Cubs have not won the championship in over a century. Our St. Louis Cardinals have done so eleven times.
