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Article: SCREEN GEMS The brouhaha surrounding the Wrigley Field windscreens is lost on fans up on the roof. They're there for fun ... and to take in the view.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 19, 2002
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John Bateman looked down at Wrigley Field from a Waveland Avenue
rooftop and smiled.
'I don't think they should change a single thing," he said.
Bateman and his colleague, Chip Callahan, were visiting Chicago
from Philadelphia on business. Neither had been to Wrigley Field
before, and both wanted to experience their first Cubs game from a
rooftop. They picked a perfect August day last week, featuring
afternoon sun mixed with clouds and breeze.
"I've been dying to see a Cubs game," Callahan said. "But if I
just had a ticket for the game, I'd rather have stayed in the office
and worked. The rooftops are like the ivy--they're part of the
tradition of Wrigley."
From the top of the building at ...