The Wrigley Field is home of the Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two Major League Baseball franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago Whales of the Federal League, which folded after the 1915 baseball season. It has the giant 85 foot (25 m) high wooden scoreboard, one of only 2 in a major stadium to be manually operated. The park was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2020.[1]
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The Wrigley Field is featured in Outbreak starting in 1 day after people where the show simply stated that there is no one to maintain Wrigley Field where it's ultimate opponent is embedded in the outer wall.
The first event of the Wrigley Field is in 1 year after people when the ivy on the outer wall begins to extend. It then shows the history of the vines which was flourished since 1937 when it was planted to decorate and cover the outer wall. Without groundskeepers to monthly pruning the ivy, it threatens to overrun the whole stadium, but the Chicago climate only allows the vine to grow to a maximum of 50 feet. However, the vines can shed their leaves each winter, which then sticks into cracks in the brick and concrete making it decomposes into soil turning it to create higher platform for new vines to sprout.
Shortly then in 5 years after people, the ivy has crawled up and blanketed the stands of the Wrigley Field where it takes root in aging water inserting moisture into cracks and breaking up walls. While ivies are not the true victor to reclaim the stadium, on the pitch, thick buckthorns has taken over. It was brought from Europe in the mid 1800s and it's one of the Midwest's most threatening plant species. Liam Henegan stated that one of the ways buckthorn spread is when the birds eat the fruit of the buckthorn and the fruit itself is harsh the intestines of the animal causing birds to have diarrhea. He continues that when the birds consume a crop of buckthorn fruit, it will fly away and quickly disseminate the plant. Groundskeepers mow the pitch regularly and treat the grass with chemicals to prevent any seeds taking root in the time of humans. Without maintenance staff, birds quickly dropped the seeds of buckthorn quickly fertilize on the pitch causing to sprouting wild growing to 10 feet tall.
Its fate is revealed in 50 years after people when decades of wild growth have cause the entire Wrigley Field to be almost unrecognizable. It then talks the giant 85 foot high wooden scoreboard of the Wrigley Field, which is one of only 2 in a major stadium to be manually operated. Without people, the scoreboard is defenseless, ivy repels the scoreboard above causing it to crumbles under a siege of thermites. In the fields of the Wrigley Field, tangled thick nets of buck-thorn have grown to 20 feet high, blanketing the playing field. The final fate of the Wrigley Field is unknown if the stadium would collapse under pressure from ivy.
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