A Chicago Cubs fan since he was a small child in Birmingham, Ala., comedian Roy Wood Jr. is excited about this current iteration of the team.
Comedian Roy Wood Jr. tosses a cap after singing"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in the seventh inning of a Cubs-Diamondbacks game Sept. 9, 2023, at Wrigley Field.
Wood, a comedian, was in town with his son Henry, 7, to sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch. It wasn’t his first time leading the crowd in the song. In fact, Wrigley Field is his favorite place to experience a baseball game.Chase Field in Phoenix has the best food, he said. Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City has the best ballpark experience. But that Saturday in Chicago, it was a perfect 70 degrees — hot in the sun, cooler in the shade.
“Ernie Banks was a very integral part of the city in terms of being the Black guy on the white side of town doing extraordinary things. And we’re still in the early days of the integration of baseball. So my father looked at Ernie Banks as a bit of a bridge to the Black experience in a sport that was still very, very white — at a time that was still very, very racist. I think if it had been any other player, he probably wouldn’t have even done it.
Wood’s love of baseball led him to play the sport. His high school team, the Ramsay Rams, played at Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the United States — an opportunity many baseball nerds would be excited about.
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