The rooftops seats across the street offer views similar to those from the ballpark’s own seats

Old-time ballparks were often surrounded by buildings that afforded a “freebie” look at the game for enterprising souls. In most venues,mac brushes the clubs took steps to either extend the stands around, or to build spite fences to block the view. Perhaps the most notorious of these was the one at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, which caused a rift between the residents and the team that never healed. The Cubs themselves had built a high fence along the outfield at West Side Park,vibram five fingers to hide the field from flats whose back porches were right next to the outer fence of the ballpark.

But at Wrigley it was different. The flat rooftops of the apartment buildings across Waveland and Sheffield,mac makeup which pre-date the ballpark, were often populated with a reasonable number of fans having cookouts while enjoying the game for free. The Cubs tolerated it quietly until the 1990s,north face denali when some owners of those apartments began building little bleacher sections, and charging people to watch the games. That was a whole different ball game, and the Cubs management became very vocal in expressing their displeasure, threatening legal action. In 2003 they went so far as to line the screens that top the outer walls with opaque strips, to block the best exterior sight lines. That was the closest thing to a spite fence that Wrigley had seen. Therefore the bleachers are sometimes called “The Spiteless Fence” as well as “The Ivy Wall”.