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The park was built in South Central Los Angeles in 1925 and is named after William Wrigley, the chewing-gum magnate who owned the first tenants, the original Los Angeles Angels minor league team. It is the same Wrigley that owned the Chicago Cubs, who play in a more famous park named after him. The Los Angeles Wrigley Field was built to resemble the stadium in Chicago, known at the time as Cubs Park. It was also the first to bear William's name, as the Chicago park was named for William several months after the L.A. park's opening.

For 33 seasons, 1925 to 1957, the park was home to the Angels, and for 11 more seasons, 1926 through 1935 and 1938, it had a second home team in the rival Hollywood Stars .

With its location near Hollywood, it was a popular place to film baseball moviesFor other uses see film (disambiguation Film — also called movies the cinema the silver screen moving pictures motion pictures photoplays picture shows and flicks — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of the entertainment. Among the most well known movies filmed there were The Pride of the YankeesThe Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 biographical film which tells the story of New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig. It stars Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth (as himself), Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen and Ludwig Stossel. The movie was adapted and a movie version of Damn YankeesDamn Yankees is a musical comedy, a modern retelling of the Faust legend, set in Washington, D. with book by Douglass Wallop and George Abbott and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. It was based on Wallop's novel The Year the Yankees Lost t. It later found its way to televisionSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p, serving as the backdrop for the Gillette Home Run Derby series in 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac, a popular show which featured one-on-one contests between baseball's top home run hitters. An episode of The MunstersThe Munsters was an American television sitcom, depicting the home life of a family of horror movie monsters. Much of the humor derived from the fact that they did not have the slightest idea that they were in any way different from their neighbors. It fi also was filmed here.

In 1961, the L.A. Angels joined the American LeagueThe American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. It developed from a minor league, the Western League, that aspired to as an expansion team and took residence at Wrigley for the season. The team set a still-standing first-year expansion team record with 71 wins, and the park set another record by yielding 248 home runs. After the season, the team moved to Dodger Stadium, or Chavez Ravine as it was known for Angels games. There were no more regular tenants afterwards, and the park was torn down in 1966.