What’s in a Name?

Our boat has only ever had one name: Night Baseball. It’s a nod to the 1968 court case Shlensky v. Wrigley, colloquially known as “Night Baseball,” when Cubs owner Philip Wrigley famously refused to install stadium lights at Wrigley Field. Other teams were cashing in on night games, but Wrigley held his ground. Baseball, he said, was a game for the daylight—for summer afternoons, not electric evenings.

In winning the case, Wrigley lost some profits.
But he kept the magic.

That story stuck with us—not just because it’s a charming piece of Chicago history, but because it says something deeper about the human experience: not everything worth doing can be measured in profits. Sometimes we choose the slower way forward—not for efficiency, but for meaning. To protect what’s fragile. To hold on to what can’t be replaced.

That’s the spirit behind Field Trip Chicago.

Sailing is a stubborn pastime. It’s not efficient. It demands tenacity, patience, and a deep respect for forces you can’t control. You don’t sail because it’s the fastest way to get somewhere.
You sail because the journey teaches you something—about nature, about yourself, about being present.

Night Baseball is part time machine, part spaceship. She carries you away from the noise of the city and into something quieter, older, and more wondrous. A different way of moving through the world.

We’re not here to scale fast or squeeze margins.
We’re here to create experiences that feel rare and real. That remind us what it’s like to be fully alive—together, under the open sky, with the wind in our sails and the city twinkling behind us.

If that sounds a little romantic, a little impractical… well, that’s kind of the point.

Welcome aboard.