January 23, 1952 – The Chicago Cubs announce that
the organization will be raising the price of box seats at Wrigley Field to
$2.50, a 50-cent increase, for the 1952 season.
The White Sox decide to keep the price of their box seat tickets at
$2.00. The Cubs soften the blow with the
announcement that grandstand seat prices will remain unchanged at $1.25 and the
price of bleacher seats will also be held at 60 cents. The Chicago
Daily Tribune offers a look at how these prices compare to other major
league ball clubs, citing these numbers:
National League—Boston,
$3.60; Brooklyn, $3.00; New York, $3.00; Pittsburgh, $2.75; Philadelphia,
$2.50; St. Louis, $2.25; Cincinnati, $2.25.
American League—New York,
$3.00; Detroit, $2.50; Philadelphia, $2.50; Boston, $2.40; St. Louis, $2.25;
Cleveland, Washington and Chicago, $2.00.
The Cubs cite the increased cost of operating the club along with
construction work in the box seat section designed to “make the park the most
beautiful in big league baseball” [Chicago
Daily Tribune, January 24, 1952] as contributing factors in the increase. The above photo shows the box seats at Wrigley during the 1953 campaign, at the end of which the Cubs were 40 games out of first place.
Also on this date from an earlier blog entry . . .
January 23, 1949 -- The first place winner in a nation-wide architectural competition for new talent sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is Joseph Y. Fujikawa of Chicago. Mr. Fujikawa was born in Los Angeles and began his college career in a five-year program in architecture at the University of Southern California. That was interrupted when World War iI began, and he was interred in a "relocation center" in Colorado. After three months there he managed to get into the Illinois Institute of Technology, at which Mies van der Rohe was the director of the School of Architecture. His time at I.I.T. was also interrupted by an 18-month stint in the Army, and Fujikawa graduated in 1944. His career really began with Mies's first residential building in Chicago at Promontory Point. Perhaps his two most noteworthy designs in Chicago are the Ralph Metcalfe Federal Office Building across Jackson Boulevard from the Federal Center and the former Mercantile Exchange towers at 10 and 30 South Wacker Drive, the north tower of which is pictured above. Fujikawa died in Winnetka on the last day of 2004.
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