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Cubs fans buy 'Keep It Wrigley' T-shirts

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CHICAGO, March 28 (UPI) -- Angry Chicago Cubs fans are buying hundreds of "Keep It Wrigley" T-shirts as their outfit of choice for the team's Monday home opener at Wrigley Field.

The locally made T-shirts have become a popular way for Cubs fans to speak out against the Tribune Co. selling the rights to rename Wrigley Field, the Chicago Sun Times reported Friday.

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The newspaper is giving away 100 "Keep it Wrigley" shirts to contestants who submit the most creative limerick explaining why the revered baseball stadium should keep its name.

Chris Festa, who started a Chicago-based T-shirt business in 2003, came up with the idea for the "Keep it Wrigley" shirts, which he said he's shipped as far as North Carolina, Arkansas and Florida.

"If they change the name to Rod Blagojevich Ball Field, it's not going to be the same. They'd be meddling with primeval forces," Festa said. Blagojevich, Illinois' governor and a Cubs fan, opposes any name change.

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