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Wrigley Field hosted its first Major League Baseball game on April 23, 1914. The Chicago Cubs played their first home game there on April 20, 1916, defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6. In 1937, Bill Veeck Jr., son of the Cubs' president, planted ivy vines against the outfield wall. In 1988, it became the last Major League Baseball ballpark to install lights. On November 2, 2016, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 to clinch their first World Series since 1908. The field dimensions are 355 feet in left, 368 feet in left center, 400 feet in center, 368 feet in right center, and 353 feet in right.
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