Wrigley Field historical sleuthing: Really small photo edition

Many times in these sleuthing posts, I give you a larger version of the photo so you can check it out in greater detail.

I can’t do that with this one. The original is 400 pixels by 210 pixels and that starts to get really, uh, pixellated when you try to enlarge it.

Still, we have a couple of clues just looking at the photo as is. It’s clearly from the time before the center field bleachers were closer, thus, before April 1952. Also, even in the small size shown here, you can see a warning track in the photo. Wrigley Field did not have a warning track until 1948.

So that narrows this down to a four-year span, 1948-51.

Then it’s time to start sussing out the city names on the scoreboard, which…