The 25 percent capacity cap for games at Wrigley Field, for now, limited paid attendance to 10,343 for Thursday’s Opening Day Cubs game against the Pirates.
As you surely know, that’s far fewer than the 40,000-plus who normally crowd Wrigley Field for Opening Day.
Here are a few notes about the size of this crowd.
First, the 10,343 number implies that the official seating capacity of Wrigley Field is 41,372, as 10,343 is exactly 25 percent of that number. I have seen other capacity numbers online in that range, ranging from 41,149 to 41,649.