Wrigley Field Help

by snfan on Aug 14, 2008 2:14 PM CDT

I'm hoping a regular to Wrigley Field can help me out. I took my 2 nephews to Wrigley on a bus trip last week. We had a great time, except we never got the chance to catch a fly/foul ball from where are seats were. When I was walking on the concourse I saw one of those penny press machines, you put a penny and 50 cents in and it smashes the penny and imprints something on the Cubs or Wrigley on it. Well, I didn't have time to get press pennies, but I'm thinking it would be something great to add to their Christmas presents, they are both 7 years old. Is anyone out there able to help me out? Thanks.

Kate in Iowa

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Kate...

Where in Iowa? I’ve got a spare ball or two that I could probably hand over…

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Joe Garagiola

by Ryan at Cubshub on Aug 14, 2008 2:26 PM CDT 0 recs

Iowa City

I’m in the Iowa City area. We cheer for the Cubs and the Iowa Hawkeyes.

by snfan on Aug 14, 2008 2:32 PM CDT 0 recs

I also live in IC

If you’d like to meet up I’ll gladly give you a baseball from Wrigley. Shoot me an email. RPierce04 @ Hotmail . Com

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Joe Garagiola

by Ryan at Cubshub on Aug 15, 2008 4:52 PM CDT up 0 recs

Ballhawk?

Can you help Kate out?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Aug 14, 2008 3:03 PM CDT 0 recs

sure, but I don't think the penny press machine can handle baseballs... ;-)

Tell you what though – that’d be a cool machine if it did. You drop a baseball in there, put your money in, and then see these big ACME steel presses come from all sides and squeeze the bejesus out of the baseball. Leather, stitching, cork and string explode everywhere…

Then it gets all scooped up together and flattened once more into a nice little placement and comes sliding out into a drawer in the bottom of the machine. For a moment you feel a tinge of sadness because you aided in the destruction of a symbol of our national pastime, but then you hold your new unique memento in your hands, look down and notice that the Allen H. Selig autograph is nowhere to be seen. You smile and nod your head, because now you know it was worth it…

Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."

by ballhawk on Aug 15, 2008 11:40 AM CDT up 0 recs

LOL

Didn’t mean that. She said she hoped to catch a foul ball… maybe you have some extras?

"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx

by Al on Aug 15, 2008 1:16 PM CDT up 0 recs

Hydraulic press fun...

Here you go…

Link 1

Link 2

by MillsChC on Aug 15, 2008 5:29 PM CDT up 0 recs

I screwed up Link 1

Here’s the real one…

Link 1

by MillsChC on Aug 15, 2008 5:30 PM CDT up 0 recs

I can help out..

The next game I am going to is Next week Wednesday. I get you some of these (they have I think 3 different images)…Send me an email at to let me know where to send them.

Kasey

See the Cubs 2008 schedule (with TV schedule & game-by-game results) at http://ignarski.tripod.com/sched2008.html

by kaseyi on Aug 14, 2008 3:18 PM CDT 0 recs

See below...

Were these what you were looking for?

"...the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes." - Sen. Ted Stevens

by bobby h on Aug 14, 2008 3:20 PM CDT 0 recs

Cool!

Now I want one!

"I love when they play that Go Cubs Win song."

by BMoney79 on Aug 14, 2008 4:05 PM CDT up 0 recs

Please

Tell me you’re not serious. I love the Cubs and I will be the happiest in October if they pull out a WS, but seriously, why is it that much of a concern to get a penny that you’ll lose someday and get a foul ball that means nothing. Go buy a ball and put an MLB stamp on it and pass it off as legit. And why would someone willingly post their email on the internet. I know if people really want it, they can find that stuff but don’t give people a reason to do something stupid.

by Irish Yeti on Aug 15, 2008 12:35 PM CDT up 0 recs

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ buzzkill ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

the pink hat guy is my father

by joeschmitt on Aug 15, 2008 1:18 PM CDT up 0 recs

What is your problem?

Brian McRae's 5 O'Clock Shadow

by PurpleLineToWrigley on Aug 15, 2008 2:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

Many things

In all reality, I think it’s the fascination of nostalgic items that don’t have any real place in this world

by Irish Yeti on Aug 15, 2008 5:18 PM CDT up 0 recs

Funbusters

don’t really have any place in this world either.
different things are interesting and valuable to different people for different reasons….just like….your comment may be interesting and valuable to somebody, you just never know!
and why would you care if someone wants to post their email address? It’s their business and they’re actually trying to be nice to someone.
Live and let live. Why do you want to degrade someone like that?

"I wouldn't be a part of any club that would have me as a member" : Groucho Marx

by Dave Pendleton on Aug 16, 2008 9:09 AM CDT up 0 recs

CUBSINCARDINALCOUNTRY

Ride the Karma train. Im gonna hook you up with tickets for Sunday the 24th and you could hook her up with some pennies.

"Hey.....Cubs win!!!" ---Harry
"Swung on belted!!!"---Chip

by Hammer on Aug 14, 2008 5:51 PM CDT 0 recs

Awe

paying it forward…..
Cubs fans are good folks!

"That guy is a gamer." said Ron Santo of Reed Johnson on 07-25-08

by love the ivy on Aug 14, 2008 6:55 PM CDT up 0 recs

Paying it forward

I’m about a day late on this, but I’d be happy to spend the $2.04 to keep the Karma train rolling. Thanks to Hammer I’ll be there on the 24th.

by cubincardcountry on Aug 15, 2008 4:33 PM CDT up 0 recs

Great idea-Now I want to do this for my nieces

can anyone tell me exactly where this machine is located?

by bluekoolaide on Aug 14, 2008 9:23 PM CDT 0 recs

Its...

Right outside the gift shop by the main entrance (under the Marquee) in th concourse of the park.

Kasey

See the Cubs 2008 schedule (with TV schedule & game-by-game results) at http://ignarski.tripod.com/sched2008.html

by kaseyi on Aug 14, 2008 9:47 PM CDT up 0 recs

Thanks for the info-I'll be there Tuesday night

by bluekoolaide on Aug 14, 2008 10:09 PM CDT up 0 recs

I think my mom was on the same bus, Kate

Did you go with the Maske’s? I’ll be driving from IC to the Reds game next Tuesday night. I’d be happy to bring a few home for you if you let me know.

by Nibbles on Aug 14, 2008 9:55 PM CDT 0 recs

rec center

I took the bus trip with the Iowa City rec center on August 6th. $65 for the bus trip to and from Wrigley, and that included the ticket to the game. The grand slam homerun was great. My nephews were cheering and jumping all over the place.

by snfan on Aug 15, 2008 9:50 AM CDT up 0 recs

Texas anyone..

This got me to thinking, I’ll be flying in from texas on the 29th. I’m going to the Sat. game, if anyone wants some Wrigley stuff, give me a shout.

ernie81

by ernie81 on Aug 15, 2008 3:34 AM CDT 0 recs

Let me know if you want some pennies, Kate

We can figure out a way to meet up. I don’t want to offend the Irish Yeti’s of the world. In the spirit of the revelations about Juila Child being a spy in WWII we could set up a dead drop somewhere.

by Nibbles on Aug 15, 2008 8:31 PM CDT 0 recs