The story of the Chicago Cubs’ first training facility is an interesting one. In 1921, William Wrigley Jr. found a little slice of heaven on Catalina Island, at a place called Avalon Canyon. Throughout the next 30 years, the club would use it as their home.
In Chicago, the Cubs played their home games at Weegham Park from 1914-1919, before it was ultimately renamed Cubs Park, and five years after that it was officially Wrigley Field. Regarding Avalon Canyon, it will always be the first place the Cubs got their start.
Making a home
It is a crazy thing to think about how baseball used to be long ago.