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Chicago's Wrigley Field looks like a spaceship that has landed on a Roman coliseum. Built in 1914 as Weeghman Park for the then-Chicago Whales president, the Cubs played their first game there in 1916. Chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. bought the Cubs in 1921, and the name changed.
