All day affair going to a Cubs game

One only has to venture a few miles from home to realize what a fast-paced world we live in today. Maybe that’s why I’m always glad to be home after a week on the road to the east. We took off last week to head to Chicago and Bowling Green, Ohio, to visit our kids and grandkids. Along the way, we discovered there is no lack of moisture anywhere along our route. All of South Dakota and states to the east have had an abundance of rain this spring.

First stop was at our oldest son’s place in Chicago. We planned to stay a short time there, then move on to Ohio for a few days to visit our youngest son and then stop at our middle son’s place in Chicago on the return trip. The conversation turned to the Cubs which were playing at home in Wrigley Field the next Friday. We made tentative plans to attend the game if we could find good tickets.

I’ve never seen a game in person at historic Wrigley Field. It is one of the more pristine ballparks in the country and has stayed that way by limiting commercialization in the form of advertising signs and billboards. In fact, there aren’t any except for some lit up rolling messages on unobtrusive electric signs. A recently erected red Toyota sign and logo in the left field bleachers created quite a controversy when it first went up. It certainly does seem to be out of place in an otherwise beautiful ballpark setting. No doubt Toyota paid a pretty penny for the privilege of putting up that sign in the 1914 park.

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