This year, the Cubs are honoring 100 years of Wrigley Field by bestowing each home stand with the theme of a different decade. On Sunday, May 18, the Cubs will wear a throwback uniform from 1937, the year during which Wrigley Field’s iconic scoreboard was installed and the ivy was planted on the newly-constructed bleacher wall. The 1937 jersey features a zip-up front and the uniform marks the first year the team switched from a navy blue to a royal blue color on its uniforms.
The visiting Milwaukee Brewers will wear a 1937-inspired retro uniform as well.
Here you can see the Federal League uniforms that the Cubs wore for the 1910s.
Here are the ’37s
Also, the famed Wrigley Field Marquee will return to its green origins with gold trim from the mid-1930s when it gets a paint job for the homestand. The world famous bright red Wrigley Field marquee was painted purple (as you can see below) when Northwestern played the Illini at Wrigley Field in college football in 2010. (The infamous, the end zone is dangerously too close to the wall, so both teams will drive the same way game)
After the Cubs homestand, the Wrigley Field marquee will return to its modern red background with white trim.
On Wednesday morning, painting of the Marquee begins to get it to match its mid-1930s color scheme following its installation in 1934.
Also, the Cubs are giving away a Babe Ruth “Called Shot” bobblehead on this homestand (photo here); versus the Milwaukee Brewers, not when they play the Yankees four days later. (Uhm, yeah, your guess is as good as mine on the reasoning behind that one) You got to hand it to the Cubs though, giving away a bobble commemorating something accomplished against them.
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