Want to take a weekend trip to Chicago to see both the White Sox and Cubs in action. During the second weekend of September 2017 you can do that. The White Sox host the San Francisco Giants at US Cellular Field and the Cubs are in town as they host the Nationals at Wrigley Field.
BAY AREA SHOWDOWN
Like teams in New York City and Chicago, it is hard to find one weekend during the season when both teams are in town. The San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics are both in town during the three day weekend of August 12-14, 2016. Check out MLB’s most beautiful ballpark, AT&T Park as the Giants
THE GREAT LAKES
Ten Days, Six Ballparks, Three Great Lakes. You start this trip along Lake Michigan in Milwaukee as the Brewers host the Washington Nationals at Miller Park. The following day you will drive south on Interstate 94 to Chicago where the Braves visit the Chicago Cubs at historic Wrigley Field. A day off allows you to
Winter Classic conversion begins at Busch Stadium
No, Busch Stadium III was not designed with hosting the National Hockey League’s Winter Classic in mind. “Why didn’t you build in the rink?” St. Louis Blues chairman Tom Stillman jokingly asked St. Louis Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III Thursday afternoon after the league’s $1 million mobile refrigeration unit arrived at the ballpark. “We probably
Cubs detail offseason Wrigley Field renovation work
The Chicago Cubs have a shorter offseason than ever before thanks to winning their first World Series title in 108 years. Which means less time to complete a lot of renovation work at Wrigley Field. The team this week detailed the parts of the Friendly Confines that will get face-lifts over the next few months
Braves sprinting toward opening day at SunTrust Park
With less than 150 days to go until the first regular-season game in SunTrust Park, the Braves are selling ticket packages, setting up new offices and spending some of their anticipated revenue increase on (very) veteran pitchers. The Braves’ race to opening day, which began with the announcement three years ago this month of the
Texas Rangers stadium vote passes in landslide
Home-field advantage didn’t help the Texas Rangers in last month’s playoffs. But on Tuesday, it landed them a new $1 billion, retractable roof stadium. An Arlington proposition to help fund at least half of the new ballpark passed easily with the opposition conceding early in the evening. The deal will keep the Rangers in their
In Arlington, voters debate paying to replace Rangers ballpark
In the 1990s, the Dallas Cowboys tried to get voters in Irving, where the team played, to leave the regional transit system and instead spend that sales tax revenue on upgrading Texas Stadium. Voters stuck with Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the Cowboys eventually left for nearby Arlington, who helped finance a new football stadium.
Sox Park gets its new name — and a downward-pointing arrow
Not to steal the spotlight from the Chicago Cubs’ World Series run, but the crosstown rival White Sox began hoisting the sign for the baseball park’s new name. And yep, despite the social media hullabaloo that erupted when the naming-rights deal was announced two months ago, the newly named Guaranteed Rate Field still will carry
A tale of two ballparks: Wrigley vs. Progressive
Chicago and Cleveland. Two Great Lakes cities. It’s been 60-plus years since the Indians won a World Series; it’s been 108 years since the Cubs did it. Neither team’s current ballpark existed when they last raised the world championship pennant, yet both venues have provided a template for the most recent generation of ballparks.