Benjamin Moore Chicago Blue Paint Color
Die-hard Chicago Cubs admirers ability not be able to charm Wrigley Field's acclaimed outfield ivy or celebrated covering at home, but paint-maker Benjamin Moore is acquisitive some will appetite to add a burst of Friendly Confines colors.
Newly added to Benjamin Moore's 3,500 acrylic colors are hues dubbed Cubbies Blue SC-60, Covering Red SC-61 and Wrigley Field Blooming SC-62, the acrylic cast appear in a account absolution Tuesday.
Similar as Cubbies Blue ability attending to Blueberry Hill, Patriot Blue or Evening Blue, both it and Wrigley Field Blooming are new hues developed by Benjamin Moore to bout the team's colors as carefully as possible, with final approval from the Cubs, said Kelly Sinatra, Benjamin Moore's accessible relations chief manager.
Marquee Red is a rebranded adaptation of Million Dollar Red — the absolute Benjamin Moore blush acclimated on Wrigley's marquee, Sinatra said.
That's the blush acclimated today, at least. The Cubs started alive with Benjamin Moore during Wrigley Field's 100th altogether anniversary in 2014, back the acrylic cast helped charm the aboriginal blooming and gold covering acclimated in the 1930s, said Cubs Chief Director of Corporate Partnerships Allen Hermeling, who said Benjamin Moore "engages with the aggregation and our admirers in an accurate way."
Jason Hinton, abettor administrator at a Lakeview J.C. Licht acrylic abundance that sells Benjamin Moore articles a half-mile from the ballpark accouterment the inspiration, said he had yet to advertise any cans to Cubs fanatics but that the colors had been accessible alone for a brace of days.
Benjamin Moore's appropriate prices for the baseball-themed colors alter depending on the accurate acrylic artefact but are no added big-ticket than accepted colors, Hinton said.
Benjamin Moore's Sports Colors Collection additionally has hues aimed at admirers of the Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees — like the Cubs, all teams the acrylic cast sponsors.
The colors are awash at Benjamin Moore retailers in the teams' home cities, including added than 150 in the Chicago area.
And, yes, that includes some in White Sox territory, like Joe Harris Acrylic and Hardware, a little added than a half-mile from U.S. Cellular Field.
"I assumption there's Cubs admirers all over the place," said administrator Bill Hawrysz.
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