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To: Signalman

TV Show was 1960 so the inflation adjustment would be $1 = $8.71, so $500 = $4,354, $1,000 = $8,709 and $2,000 = $17,418. As for the baseball park, Wrigley Field in Los Angeles was named and built (1925) a year before its Chicago cousin. The Los Angeles Angels were a farm team for the Chicago Cubs and they plus both ballparks were owned by William Wrigley Jr., the chewing gum magnate.

This was also the original home for the Big League LA Angels in 1961 under partial ownership of Gene Autry. The next year they moved to share the Dodger’s ballpark, Dodger Stadium. This ballpark was eventually owned by the City and demolished in 1969.

Just some fun facts!


12 posted on 07/17/2020 11:20:44 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles was named and built (1925) a year before its Chicago cousin

Not correct. Chicago's Wrigley Field opened in 1914.
And it's original tenant was not the Cubs. It was the Chicago Whales of the Federation League.

It did not acquire the current name though until after Philip Wrigley bought the team.


15 posted on 07/17/2020 12:43:32 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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