Wrigley Field: The Centennial: 100 Years at the Friendly Confines Author: Visit Amazon's Les Krantz Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1600788343 | Format: EPUB
Wrigley Field: The Centennial: 100 Years at the Friendly Confines Description
About the Author
Les Krantz has worked for Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Esquire, Golf, and Ski. He is the author of many sports books, including Dark Horses and Underdogs, Not Till the Fat Lady Sings, Reel Baseball, Yankee Classics, and Yankee Stadium: A Tribute. He lives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Triumph Books; Har/DVD edition (November 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1600788343
- ISBN-13: 978-1600788345
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
My son Jesse and I have seen a baseball game in every major league ballpark, a feat we completed twice, in 2002 and 2013. Achieving such double milestones, about which we have written and published in a variety of forums, requires a great deal of time together and on the road.
It gave us many hours to talk.
One of our frequent and favorite topics was how we would define America through its built landscape. What are the 10 places that are quintessentially America, that create the American character.
We discussed such landmarks as the St. Louis Arch, Golden Gate Bridge, United States Capitol.
And Wrigley Field.
Not only for their vision and vigor, their sense of pride and place, but also for their sheer joy and mastery of space, these places speak to a brawny, self-assured culture that arose and came of age almost instantly.
Taken this way, each must be considered a national treasure -- Wrigley Field included. Nestled snugly in its urban neighborhood, Wrigley's warmth and intimacy, sense of history and of place, speaks to an easy American democracy, its reverence for its green past in the bricks-and-mortar present.
Is it fair so to freight a hundred-year-old baseball park? I think so.
Further, is it fair to ask a book about a ballpark to measure up to such considerations?
Yes, I believe it is.
Finally, does Les Krantz's Wrigley Field: The Centennial measure up?
Yes, it does. Admirably so.
Richly illustrated, deeply nostalgic, Wrigley Field: The Centennial takes its readers into the park and its history, reveling in people and place, reminding us of just how important is time spent there.
Such a feat is hardly surprising, coming from veteran sportswriter Krantz.
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