Can you imagine Wrigley Field with artificial turf?
It was being seriously considered, according to an article in The Sporting News published 52 years ago today, November 30, 1968.
In the article, Jerome Holtzman wrote:
Cub Owner Philip Knight Wrigley says he is giving serious thought to plowing up the Wrigley Field grass and replacing it with Tartan-Turf, one of the new synthetics.
Said Wrigley:
“There’s no doubt in my mind that these new artificial surfaces are the coming thing. We have been studying development of it and there’s no doubt it would pay for itself within a few years — because maintenance of grass turf is expensive.