When Was Wrigley Field Built?
Wrigley Field is a baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was built in 1914 by Lucky Charlie Weeghman, the owner of Federal League Dolphins. It cost $250,000 and it was designed by Zachary Taylor Davis. The seating capacity was 20,000. The initial name of the building was ‘Weeghman Field’ but the club was renamed as ‘Wrigley Field’ in November, 1926. It is also colloquially known as the ‘Friendly Confines’.
The stadium has the ‘jewel box’ design which means it was made using ‘steel and concrete’ instead of simple wood. The two recessed wall areas on the left and the right of the building give it the feeling of being longer than usual. Both football and basketball can be played at the stadium but in recent years the building was used to host other games; in 2009 Winter Classic match of the National Hockey was played in the stadium. In 2001, when the United States Postal Service issued a series of commemorative stamps on the subject of basketball and a number of those postal stamps had the picture of Wrigley printed on them.
