Wrigley Field is a stadium that opened in 1914. It has primarily served as the home field of the Chicago Cubs professional baseball club for over nine decades, but it also hosted football games and other events in its 100 years of existence.

1910s

1914 April 23 the Federal League Chifeds played the first game at the brand-new Weeghman Park. After parades and ceremonies, the Chifeds defeated the visiting Kansas City Packers 9–1.

1915 In June and July, on select night the park hosted first-class "hippodrome acts" at night after the Whales' games. Separate admission fee (of between 10 and 20 cents for grandstand and 30 for boxes) was charged to view circus-style performers such as "The Five Juggling Normans", "The Clown of the Sawdust Ring" and "the great baseball pantomime comedian George Silvers" October 3 the renamed Chicago Whales clinched what would turn out to be the final Federal League pennant in perhaps the closest pennant race in history. Going into the last day of the season, Chicago was four points ahead of the Pittsburgh Rebels and five points ahead of the St. Louis Terriers. St. Louis won its game against Kansas City, putting them just two points behind Chicago and two ahead of Pittsburgh. The Whales were scheduled to play a doubleheader against Pittsburgh at Weeghman Park. The Whales lost the first game, 5–4, in the 11th inning after having led 4–1 with two outs in the ninth inning. A loss or tie in the second game would give Pittsburgh the FL pennant, while a win would give the Whales the pennant. As the sun drew low during the second game, the game remained scoreless. Finally, in the sixth inning, the Whales scored three runs, two of them from a Max Flack double. The game was called due to darkness after Pittsburgh failed to score in the top of the seventh inning. The Whales ended up winners of the pennant by .001 over St. Louis, and Pittsburgh ended up third, one-half game back.

1916 April 20 the Cubs played their first game in Weeghman Park. The franchise had merged with the Whales after the 1915 season, and as a result acquired the park and made it their own. The Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.

1917 May 2 Jim "Hippo" Vaughn and the Cincinnati Reds's Fred Toney both pitched nine-inning no-hitters before Jim Thorpe drives in a run in the 10th inning for a Reds victory.

1918 August 29, with the season ending early due to war restrictions, the Chicago Cubs clinched the National League pennant with a 1–0 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Weeghman Park. The Cubs would play their home games of that year's World Series in Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox. Weeghman Park would not see its first World Series game until 1929, when it had become known as Wrigley Field.

1919 September 21 Grover Cleveland Alexander pitched a complete game, defeating the Boston Braves 3–0 in a 58-minute game. This is fastest nine-inning game in Cubs franchise history.

1920s

1920 June 26, 1920: In a high-school "inter-state championship" game between New York City's Commerce High and Chicago's Lane Tech, just-turned-17 New York player Lou Gehrig slugs a grand slam to lead his team to a comeback victory. October 10, 1920: First professional football game at Cubs Park. The Chicago Tigers hosted the Racine Cardinals in a 0–0 draw. The game was attended by a crowd of 8,000. 1920 American Professional Football League Championship Game

1921 1921 The Chicago Staleys (now known as the 'Chicago Bears') make Cubs Park their home venue.

1922 July 12, 1922: Cubs Park hosts its first concert. Lights were brought in to illuminate the field, and a platform and sound board was set up over the infield for an orchestra performance. August 25, 1922: The Cubs defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 26–23 in what remains (through 2009) the highest-scoring game in major league history (49 runs total). After spotting the Phillies an early 2–1 lead, the Cubs score 10 in the second and 14 in the fourth, leading 25–6 at that point. The Phillies outscore the Cubs 17–1 during the last five innings, but the Cubs hang on to win in the ninth (with the potential lead run at the plate), avoiding what would have been the most lopsided comeback in history (the Phillies will save that effort for a game here in 1976). The winds apparently shift the next day, as the Cubs lose to the Phils 3–0.

1923 In 1923 the park hosted the annual rivalry game between the Illinois and Northwestern college football teams. This was the first time the game had ever been played in Chicago.

1924 October 1, 1924: WGN broadcasts its first baseball game from the park, the first Chicago professional game ever broadcast on radio, with A.W. Kaney commentating. The Cubs were hosting the White Sox, and won 10–7. The Chicago Cubs arguably led the way among MLB teams when it came to adopting the medium of radio broadcasting. Many major-league owners in the 1920s had been reluctant to adopting radio (fearing that fans tuning into games would quit attending at their ballparks), while William Wrigley Jr. correctly believed that radio would actually bring in more spectators excited from what they heard on the radio. "The more outlets, the better." he told players. "That way we'll tie up the entire city." By the mid-1920s five different stations were transmitting home games from Wrigley Field. During the 1931 season as many as 7 Chicago radio stations carried Cubs from Wrigley Field, as the team charged no broadcast fee.

1925

1926 December 3, 1926: Board of Directors votes to officially rename the park "Wrigley Field" in honor of William Wrigley Jr. It was the second ballpark with this name, as Wrigley's minor league team, the Los Angeles Angels, also played at a Wrigley Field.

1927 April 12, 1927: Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10–1 before 42,000 attendees for the first game in the newly renamed 'Wrigley Field' May 31, 1927: Wrigley Field hosts the junior welterweight boxing championship. Mushy Callahan defeated Spug Meyers for the title.

1928

1929 September 1929: Doubleheader sets a single-day record with 81,000 in attendance. September 18, 1929: The Cubs clinch the National League pennant, losing their game, but the second place team also loses and is eliminated on the same day. Oct. 8, 1929: Wrigley Field hosts its first World Series game between the Cubs and Philadelphia Athletics. Temporary bleachers were constructed above Waveland and Sheffield to host the nearly 51,000 spectators in attendance.

1930s

1930 June 28, 1930: Cubs draw a record 51,556 fans for their game hosting Brooklyn. September 28, 1930: Hall of Famer Hack Wilson sets an MLB record with his 190th and 191st runs of the season. His RBI record stands to this day.

1931 June 21, 1931: Glasgow Celtic, one of the most celebrated European soccer clubs, beat the Bricklayers, a Chicago-area team, 6-3 before 11,000 spectators at Wrigley Field. Fall of 1931: Chicago Cardinals move from Comiskey Park to Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cardinals and Chicago Bears football teams shared Wrigley until the Cardinals left after 1939.

1932 September 20, 1932: The Cubs clinch the pennant, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 5–2. October 1, 1932: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his famous "called shot" in the 5th inning of Game 3 of the World Series.

1933 December 17, 1933: The Chicago Bears win the first-ever NFL East-vs.-West Championship Game, over the New York Giants, 23–21. There were 26,000 spectators in attendance.

1934 September 20, 1934: The world heavyweight wrestling title bout was decided in a ring built above home plate. Jim Landos pinned Ed Lewis to win the title. There was also a wrestling exhibition between Gorgeous George and Jim McMillen

1935 September 1935: From September 4 through September 28 the Chicago Cubs have a 21-game winning streak (tied for the second longest in MLB history, and the longest excluding ties). The majority of the games in this winning streak were at Wrigley.

1936

1937 December 12, 1937: The Washington Redskins defeat the Chicago Bears at Wrigley, 28–21 in the NFL championship game. There were 15,878 in attendance.

1938 1938: A tradition began when pennants representing league standings were hung beneath the yardarm of Wrigley Field's scoreboard. Also, Wrigley became the first stadium in the MLB to add a scoreboard outside the ballpark so that fans passing outside could be aware of the game's progress. September 28, 1938: Gabby Hartnett hits the "Homer in the Gloamin'" to lift the Cubs past in the standings, and deal a fatal blow to, the Pittsburgh Pirates, who had led the National League for much of the summer. The Cubs' actual pennant clinching comes in St. Louis three days later.

1939

1940s

1940

1941 December 8, 1941: The day following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, owner P.K. Wrigley donates 165 tons of steel that had been intended for the construction of lights at Wrigley Field to the U.S. war effort. The Chicago Cubs would not host a night game until 8/8/1988. December 21, 1941: Two weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Bears win the NFL Championship Game, over the New York Giants, 37–9. April 26, 1941: Cubs become the first team to have an organ play inside their ballpark.

1942

1943 January 1943: For two consecutive weekends, Wrigley Field hosts Norge Ski Club's 38th annual invitational ski jump tournament. A scaffold ski jump was assembled and coated with ice and snow. Skiers began their descent near where the broadcast booth is located today, and landed behind second base. May 1943: Baseball tryouts for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League were held at Wrigley Field. The League invited 280 women to final tryouts on Chicago's Wrigley Field on May 17, 1943, where "60 were chosen to become the first women to ever play baseball" This league was the basis of the feature film "A League of Their Own". June 25, 1943: The first 'night' game in Wrigley Field history. This Friday evening game against the first place St. Louis Cardinals started at 6 PM (which is considered a twi-night game by MLB standards today). The game ended 2 hours 17 minutes later (some minutes before sundown), on one of the longest days of the years. August 8, 1943 Lee Savold defeated Lou Nova in a boxing match at Wrigley Field. December 26, 1943: The Bears win the NFL Championship Game, over the Washington Redskins, 41–21.

1944 August 7, 1944 Joe Baksi defeated Lee Savold in a boxing match at Wrigley Field.

1945 October 6, 1945: The most commonly accepted date of the (possibly apocryphal) Curse of the Billy Goat incident. 1945 World Series

1946 June 1946: For 5 afternoons and evenings Wrigley hosted a rodeo and thrill circus including some of the world's best riders. There were over 900 that participated in riding bulls and broncos and rope tricks and stunts.

1947 July 8, 1947: 1947 MLB All-Star Game. A.L. 2, N.L. 1. 1947: First year that all Cubs home games were televised. WBKB broadcast every Cubs home game from Wrigley that year.

1947

May 18, 1947: Most attended regular-season game in Wrigley Field's history (46,572), largely to see Jackie Robinson play his first game in Chicago for the visiting Dodgers.

1948 May 31, 1948: The Cubs set a paid attendance record when 46‚965 pass through the turnstiles for a doubleheader with the Pirates. The Cubs take the opener‚ 4–3 behind reliever Bob Rush‚ then drop the nitecap‚ 4–2 to Elmer Riddle. Andy Pafko is the hitting star‚ pounding out five hits‚ including a homer in each game.

1949

1950s

1950

1951 April 17, 1951: Professional golfer Sam Snead hit a ball over the center-field scoreboard. He's the only person to do this, even if he did it by driving a golf ball rather than hitting a baseball.

1952

1953