Wrigley Field
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practice and games on Waveland Avenue, behind left field, and Sheffield Avenue, behind right field, for a chance to catch a home run ball.
Hand turned scoreboard
Just like Fenway Park, Wrigley still boasts a hand turned scoreboard. However, unlike the fabled home of the Red Sox, the scoreboard at Wrigley is mounted above the center field bleachers, rather than at ground level, making it harder to hit it. The scoreboard was installed in 1937, when Bill Veeck installed the new brick outfield wall, and the bleacher stands, the scoreboard has remained in place ever since, and has only been modified once, in 1988, when the installation of lights made it necessary to add a set of light stands facing onto the scoreboard. The scoreboard is still hand turned, with scores coming into the scoreboard through a ticker tape machine (today, a computer is used to show scores to
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