Wrigley Field to go bleacher-less until May

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CHICAGO -- Visiting hitters won't have their home runs thrown back onto Wrigley Field until May 11, at least, as the Cubs announced the stadium's famous bleachers won't be open for the first month of the 2015 season.

The target date is May 11 for the left field bleachers and late May for the right field bleachers, Cubs president of business operations Crane Kenney said at the team's convention Saturday.

In late November, Kenney broke the news to a group of Cubs bloggers that the bleachers wouldn't be ready for opening night, a Sunday night game on April 5 against the St. Louis Cardinals.

"We're going to do it right," Kenney said. "If we miss the month of April, we do."

There are about 5,000 bleacher seats at Wrigley. While the team is only rebuilding the left- and right-field sections, the center-field section won't be open until the left-field one is finished because of safety concerns. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/12184917/chicago-cubs-say-new-wrigley-field-bleachers-ready-opener

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1. So the bleacher bums will be without baseball in both April and October.

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2. ...............