This is a real good photo of the iconic Wrigley Field scoreboard in its early years.

That scoreboard was completed in late 1937 and, as we learned in this 2020 sleuthing article, the clock on top was added sometime in mid-1941.

So that’s the time frame we’re looking at.

The scoreboard matchups are as follows.

NL side:

PITTSBURGH/CUBS, BOSTON/BROOKLYN, NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA, CINCINNATI/ST. LOUIS

AL side:

SOX/CLEVELAND, ST. LOUIS/DETROIT, PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK, WASHINGTON/BOSTON

The Chinese elms that once stood on the sides of the center field bleachers have no leaves — that’s one of the reasons they were removed, they simply didn’t grow well there. But the tree visible on the street on Waveland does have full leaf, and the fans don’t look like they are wearing coats. So this photo h

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