Memories From The Friendly Confines
by Ira Marcus
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Memories From The Friendly Confines
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Ira Marcus
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"The Friendly Confines" was what broadcaster Jack Brickhouse called Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. As a young boy in the 1960s, I would take a bus with my two best friends to attend the games. A couple dollars would pay for transportation, admission, a scorecard, a bag of peanuts, and maybe a hot dog. The vendors selling beer and other snacks would stand in the aisle and the people would pass the beer (trying not to spill it) person to person until it reached the buyer. The buyer would pass the money to the vendor in the same manner. Everyone was happy. The outfield walls were covered with ivy. The huge iconic scoreboard showed scores of all of the major league baseball games being played that day. We would almost always sneak down into the box seats until the ushers chased us back to our cheaper seats. We had our mitts at the ready hoping for a foul ball to come our way. Sometimes after the game we would wait outside the gates to watch the players exit and maybe try to get an autograph. It was a simpler time. "Memories from the Friendly Confines" brings back all of this for me. My hope is that it will do the same for you.
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May 28th, 2019
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