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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Fields of Dreams

Fields of Dreams

Walsh, Kenneth a.
Jolovitz, Barbara Rogers

Paperback

Baseball & Softball

ISBN10: 1943424209
ISBN13: 9781943424207
Publisher: North Country Pr
Published: May 1 2017
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.18 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

It's the seventh inning stretch in Chicago at Wrigley Field. Chicago Cubs fans stand as one and in one voice sing Take Me Out to the Ball Game. It's the middle of the eighth in Boston at Fenway Park. Red Sox fans are on their feet. Sweet Caroline in one voice lets you know the Sox are home.

These two baseball parks are coming together in central Maine. They share similar histories, the first being that they are the first and second oldest ballparks in the majors. Fenway Park was built in 1912 and Wrigley Park in 1914; both have unique outfields. The brick outfield wall at Wrigley is low and covered with Boston ivy and the outfield wall at Fenway is the Monster Wall, built high to shield games from folks drinking and eating at bars and restaurants across the street and watching without paying. Both share hand-placed score cards on the score board, but perhaps the most memorable sharing is that of Babe Ruth who played for the Red Sox and the Yankees. Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees for $125,000. Ruth's fame and Boston's shame for trading him to the Yankees continues to this day. The Cubs dearly remember game 3 of the 1932 World Series when Babe allegedly pointed to a bleacher location and hit the next pitch there for a homer. We know the hit was true but the assigned location... Was it fact? Is it legend?

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