Their new stadium is very fan friendly. We were at their old one when our son was around 5. Yes, Wrigley is in a very creepy area. I agree...cardinals do have a much better stadium...and great fans....watching the cardinal/giants game from my porch. Husband has it on the far right TV....another sad memory for NY.
One of these days (years) I will get to the new Busch Stadium. I suffered through the '70's when the Cardinals had some of the worst teams ever. Sure enough, I leave in 1981 & they had a great decade. The "Whitey Ball" era was some of the most exciting baseball in my opinion. Lot's of base stealing, hit & runs, bunting with an occasional HR. Luckily, during the 1980's WGN & TBS had all the Cubs & Braves games on, so I got to see a lot of Cards games and when they played the Dodgers. I also had a motorcycle back then, so I could easily go to Dodger games without any traffic/parking problems.
Back when we lived in Mesa ‘94-’98 we took my folks to the Cub’s spring training games at Hohokam Stadium in Mesa.
Folks, who lived in northern CA for many years, really missed supporting ALL the sports teams.
Cub’s have new digs now at Sloan Park, Spring Training home of the Cubs since 2014.
Mom never got over the Raiders moving south, called them the LA Traitors.
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When we went to visit them in CA, taking in a game be it baseball, football or basketball was a must.
I remember when my oldest was just a year old and we went for a visit, we were shopping, son was in stroller with a Oakland A’s cap on, a stranger came up to us bent down and said “Vida you under there?.”
That was the year Vida Blue, southpaw pitcher for the A’s, was holding out for more money and didn’t start the season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vida_Blue