A photo tour of Wrigley Field's new bleachers

Wrigley Field's bleachers have been completely rebuilt from the ground up. Here's a photo tour of how they look now.

By Matt Snyder

Oct 21, 2015 at 4:31 pm ET • 2 min read

CHICAGO -- The bleachers at Wrigley Field aren't a new thing. They've been around for generations -- built in 1937 -- and we've even got the "Bleacher Bums" moniker to apply to those we so choose.

The bleachers are they are now, however, are brand new. The Cubs opened the season by hosting the Cardinals on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball and the construction on the bleachers was incomplete. The Cubs covered the under-construction bleachers with Ernie Banks tarps, a nice way to honor the Cubs legend who had passed away in the offseason.

A bit into the season, the left-field bleachers opened. A few more weeks and the right-field side was open as well, now with roughly 500 more available seats. The video boards in both right and left are new this season as well.

So let's take a photo tour of the new bleachers at Wrigley.

We'll start with a view across the field from the left-field foul pole:

The moveable seats with a table come only in the front area of the left-field well. This is a great place to watch a game:

From the back of the left-field bleachers we can look to our right (if facing home plate) to see the continuing construction around Wrigley Field. That area to the left is going to be a hotel:

A view from the entrance to the left-center field area:

Yes, it's weird to see hallways in Wrigley Field that are modern-looking but here we are. This is the walkway on the ground level from left field going toward center field:

The brand new Waveland Grill in center field, obviously on the left-field (Waveland Avenue) side:

So polite:

A right-center view of the monster videoboard in left field, one that Kris Bryant has touched a couple times this year:

A nice view of some of the rooftops from the right-field walkway:

Hey, honoring Hall of Famer Three Finger Brown!:

The right-field video board is protected by a net during batting practice, though it's removed during the games:

Here's a look at the basket from the inside:

I'm 5-foot-8 and have an average wingspan for that height. Here's me standing up and reaching as far as I can. Yes, taller people would be able to interfere with a ball in play and we've seen it a few times this year. Stop doing that, people:

A street view of the venerable scoreboard from the outside:

Note "Platform 14." That's Banks' retired number. The "platform" is the second story area behind the scoreboard where the best concessions in the ballpark are sold, including Hot Doug's (famous in Chicago sausages), some BBQ (you can get brisket in a cone topped with mac-n-cheese, for example) and Italian, including Chicago-famous Giordano's pizza.

Finally, here's a street view of Sheffield Avenue (right field). Note that the street used to be four lanes and now it's two, with the bleachers jutting out over where the street used to be.