New Panels

The replacement panels for the backside of the scoreboard have arrived and were quickly put in place.

Wrigley Field Renovations - Scoreboard Work

Renovations to the backside of the scoreboard are underway.
They started by removing the CUBS letters (that giant C would have looked great above my davenport in the basement) and then took down the individual steel panels to reveal the inner workings of the manual scoreboard: zeros and all.

More Concrete Panel Work

The panels continue to come down. Now... our Blog Historian -and my brother- Harold tells me that those panels went up in '58. That's what he tells me, but I think it was closer to '57, but he is the one who wrote things down and he is the one who wants to be the historian. So, fine; we will just say it was '58. Wouldn't want to upset my brother.

Where was I?

Oh yes, here are some recent photographs