APRIL 23

On this date in 1914, 104 years ago today, the first baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago was played.  At that time, Wrigley was known as Weeghman Park.  That makes the home of the Cubs the oldest stadium still in use for major league baseball. 

Note that it was 74 years later, 1988, that lights were installed at the park.  The city had refused to allow lights and night games to be played because it might disrupt the neighborhood. 

There are a million things one can write about that field but here is one of the best.  The Cubs and Cincinnati Reds were in a playing on May 2, 1917.  Both pitchers, Jim Vaughn for the Cubs and Fred Toney for the Reds, pitched no-hitters through nine innings.   In the tenth, the famous Jim Thorpe knocked in the winning run for the Reds. 
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