in chicago, he began expanding and renovating the cubs' stadium, which would become wrigley field. arizona, he decided to build a winter cottage for his wife as an anniversary present. between 1929 and 1931, the wrigley mansion was constructed on a mountain overlooking the city of phoenix. >> the wrigley mansion is just a rare, unique beauty here in the phoenix valley. >> now tourists and locals alike come here for tours, meals and private events. ben sinon is now the mansion's general manager. >> and you show your guests -- very few homes in the area have been around quite as long. and very few homes have as much to see. >> this little winter cottage was the smallest of their five homes, coming in at only 17,000 square feet. i guess a lot of people were buying chewing gum at that time. >> as winter would set in in chicago, the wrigleys would travel out this way, spend about 6 weeks a year here. >> it was only meant as a stopping point for the wrigleys to spend a few weeks a year as they traveled between chicago and catalina island. so the home didn't need much -- only 24 bedrooms,

. >>> morning joe live from wrigley field.iversary of this date. >> how exciting. >> this is a seat right here. seat 113. a lot of people talk about steve bartman, 2003. nlcs. you see how good these seats are. you know whose seats these are? these are mike barnacle's. >> it's disgusting. >> inside the scoreboard. just give perspective here. this is left field. i can look out and see home plate from where i am. >> it's one of two manual score boards left in big league baseball. as we send it back to you guys, we're going to put a couple of plates up, and you can see how this works. it is manualmanual. >> the best part of it is if you get baseball in the day. >> safe to say, the coldest we have been -- >> i think there was a colder show. that was cold. >> now, it's one of the -- yeah, yeah. wrigley field. the time at the white house. >> oh, my gosh. yes. they put us out in the lawn. >> yeah. >> exactly. >> they can put you in the doghouse. >> anyhow, joining us now from washington, senator claire mchaskell of missouri. our favor