Spring training with the Cubs on Catalina Island

Spring training baseball action at the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field facility on Catalina Island in the 1920s.   Chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr.’s twin interests in baseball and Catalina Island – he bought Catalina in 1919, and gained a controlling interest in the Cubs in 1921 – dovetailed nicely when he made the decision toContinue reading “Spring training with the Cubs on Catalina Island”

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