I think the owls are along the lines of what you’re looking for. They look wooden, but I think they may be plastic, and I have no idea when they arrived, but there they are, fake owls up in the upper deck rafters at Wrigley. They were brought in to scare pigeons away from roosting in the exposed rafters (pre-concrete catching netting), but they didn’t work terribly well, so there’s now an electronic pigeon deterrent of some sort up there too. No one bothered to take down the owls though, so they’re still there.

The elevator over in the main concourse in the left field corner. My grandma was in a wheelchair for a few years before she passed, but she still loved to get to Wrigley whenever we’d take her. We used that elevator and rode up with Ron Santo twice. I was starstruck, but the first time my grandma yelled at him for a big strikeout sometime in 1964 or something. The second time (which turned out to be her last trip to Wrigley) she thanked him for making the radio broadcasts fun. Where the elevator boards in the main concourse crosses a hallway leading into the Cubs clubhouse, so if you’re lucky, you may walk off the elevator only to find a player or two hanging out down there.

The player’s parking lot is always fun if your visitors are autograph collectors, or if there are any kids in the bunch. My son and niece and nephew love hanging out at the fence to try and get a signature after every game. If nothing else, it’s fun to look at the nice cars and try to figure out which belongs to who.

Other than that, all I can think of to mention is the flags atop the roof, the Eamus Catuli sign, and the W flag if all goes well that day. Outside, I always make sure to point out the Harry statue and the house on Kenmore where Kingman’s blast landed.

-The Scoreboard is meant to resemble a ships mast.
-The huge concrete “stairs” leading up to the scoreboard that people sit on were originally supposed to have trees on them. They abandoned that idea after the high winds would consistently take off all the leaves.
-The Budweiser building across the street, well thats a tarp not paint (growing up I always assumed it was just painted on), but thats the building they would do the bears radio broadcasts from when the Bears played at wrigley.

for a quick little stroll down Sheffield and around to Waveland. That perspective of the back of the bleachers and score board is underrated. Maybe snap a pic of them with the scoreboard behind them.

they still have the old timey bathtub style urnals in the mens room. I guess they think it gives the park a more retro feel. Or something.

Wrigley is the only remaining federal league park

During the 1930s, grounds superintendent Bobby Dorr lived in a six room apartment at the ballpark, adjacent to the left-field corner gate; Cubs traveling secretary Bob Lewis later lived there; the apartment is still there and is now used by the food services group at the park.

Wrigley Field cost $250,000 when it was built in 1914

The first permanent concession stand in baseball was built here in 1914

The custom of allowing fans to keep foul balls hit into the stands started here, as did the custom of throwing back home runs hit by opposing players.

At 355 feet, Wrigley has the longest left field line in all of baseball

Wrigley field has a jail cell in it for holding unruly fans, Bartman was placed in there for his own safety after he was removed from that game

...but if you’re walking around by the intersection of Sheffield and Waveland to get some external scoreboard perspective as mentioned above, take that walk about 3 houses further north on Sheffield. On the righthand side of Sheffield (east side, closest to the El tracks), look between the houses down a little passageway. Coming out of the wall of the brick 3 flat is an honest-to-goodness fully functional beer tap! Swear to harry, I kid you not. Guys that lived year several years ago had a kegerator on the inside, and did the appropriate masonry and plumbing work to get a tap installed on the outside.

Don’t get too excited though – I’m pretty sure they also set up a mechanism to make sure it’s not free-flowing all the time…

but intertwined into Cubs lore. You could take them to the Billy Goat for lunch. They really do have great cheeseburgers there.

I’m taking notes since I am bringing my daughter to her first cubbie game in September. Keep those great insights coming…. :) Although I don’t think I’ll be showing her the troughs…..