Peter Gammons calls Wrigley Field 'a dump'

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PHILADELPHIA — MLB Network analyst Peter Gammons asserted in a radio interview Friday that the Ricketts family has underestimated the cost of renovating Wrigley Field and referred to the 97-year-old ballpark as "a dump."

"The problem that (Chairman Tom Ricketts) has, and the Ricketts family has a serious issue, is they're going to have to understand it's not only rebuilding personnel," Gammons said Friday on WSCR-AM 670.

"They have to make that ballpark livable. It's a dump, Wrigley Field. They're going to have to spend $200-and-something million on re-renovating Wrigley Field, do what the Boston owners did with Fenway Park." ...............(more)

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