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Harry Carried To New Home
Here is the Harry Caray statue in place in its new home outside the main bleacher entrance at Waveland & Sheffield. Workers were finishing putting new bricks in when I took this photo about 11:30 this morning. Photo by Al Yellon; click on photo to open a larger version in a new browser window
Cubs Carry Harry In The Air
Harry Caray spent 16 years on the air as the Cubs' principal play-by-play announcer. Today, Harry's statue was in the air as it was lifted out of the place where it has been since April 12, 1999 at the corner of Addison & Sheffield, headed to its new home one block north, outside the bleacher...
Today in Sports History: April 17th
4/17/1972 - Kiteman flops at the Vet In 1971, the Philadelphia Phillies ringed in the new season by having their backup catcher catch a ball thrown from a helicopter. In 1972, in an ambitious attempt to outdo themselves, the Phillies booked a man who skydived off cliffs with a kite on his back to...
Welcome to Wrigley Field
Most of you know that I grew up and still live in southwest Michigan, about an hour and a half from Chicago. I had no family connections with baseball, really, and it was a sport that I got into on my own. Baseball cards and Little League were my introductions. The box scores in the local...
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