Recently, I crossed another one off my bucket list. I visited Wrigley Field in Chicago, hallowed ground encased inside a veritable major league baseball palace. Wrigley opened in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States. It is located at 1060 Addison Avenue, near the Chicago Transit Authority elevated train station, the same address used fraudulently by two mischievous musicians in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, featuring Dan Aykroyd and the late John Belushi.
Wrigley opened 111 years ago. It was called Weeghman Park until 1920. Weeghman was renamed Cubs Park through 1927. Then, William Wrigley purchased the park, decided to call the park a field and renamed it after himself.
Burnet County sons Rankin Johnson and C.L. Taylor are connected to the Weeghman and Cubs Park eras.
