Volume 11 , Issue 36

1914 Sports

Chicago's Wrigley Field was completed at a cost of $250,000 for the Chicago Cubs by local restaurateur Harry Weeghman who would sell the ballpark to chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr., in 1919.

Wrigley would expand the park's seating capacity several times to seat 46,000 and ran it until his death in 1932. By the mid-1970s the centerfield bleacher area would have been roped off, wider seats and wider aisles would have been installed, and the seating capacity would have been reduced to 37,741.

The Boston braves win the World Series by defeating Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics 4 games to 0.

The Yale Bowl was completed at New Haven, Conn., at a cost of $650,000. The 61,000 seat football stadium would be enlarged to seat 74,786 as college football becomes a major sporting attraction.
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