Spring in Chicago?

Darn Heck, could baseball season be on the way? Just today they took down the ice skating rink and across the street they started putting up their shirts and ballcap tent.

Before and After Some Paint

Now they are cleaning the steel up and painting it Weeghman Green.


Before


After

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