Free Admission - Wrigley Field
Date: January 06, 2010 09:11AM
Late in grammar school, circa 1961 or so, we'd walk to Wrigley Field (from Lakewood/Balmoral area). Memory serves, we'd arrive about 9:00 AM, There would be 30 - 40 kids. We'd be taken into the park and start picking up the trash from the previous day's game. This would continue until just before the start of the game. For the work, we'd get an Unreserved Grandstand ticket for that game or another game in the future. The face value of the ticket back then was $0.60. If we wanted to sit in the bleachers, we'd have to cough up $0.15 because those tickets were $0.75 at the time.
Anyone else remember this?