Cubs Owner Tom Ricketts Keeps Wrigley Field Family-Friendly
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Cubs board chairman Tom Ricketts told 500 visiting writers Sunday that maintaining a comfortable … More family atmosphere is essential to his team’s success. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) Tribune News Service via Getty Images Tom Ricketts, chairman of the board for the Chicago Cubs, believes baseball fans will enjoy games more if they can converse between innings. Toward that end, he said Sunday that he believes that Wrigley Field’s blend of live organ music, proximity to an adjacent baseball village, and a wholesome family atmosphere is the key to his team’s success. The soft-spoken Ricketts was at the ballpark to greet more than 500 media representatives attending ipw 2025, an annual conference designed to promote international travel to the United States. New Players Help He is the guiding force in keeping the Cubs first in the National League Central Division. The development of Pete Crow-Armstrong, the slugging center fielder; the signing of former Japanese stars Seiya Suzuki and Shota Imanaga, and a trade for hard-hitting outfielder Kyle Tucker, obtained from Kansas City last December, have been key factors. The Cubs are trying to replicate their 2016 world championship – the first by the team in 108 years. But they’ll have to win their division, then prevail against such difficult challengers as the wealthier New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers. “Steve Cohen can sign anybody he wants to,” said Ricketts, whose projected 2025 luxury tax payroll of $218 million ranks 12th among the 30 teams but first in the NL Central. According to Roster Resource, the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, and Phillies all exceed $300 million. Although Ricketts believes revealing player salaries increases the asking prices of others, he doesn’t see any other option. “Word would get out anyway,” he said. “Some enterprising writer could always find…
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