Thanks for the correction Finn, you’re right.
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The Los Angeles Angels played their first season, 1961, in Wrigley Field in LA, previously the home of the minor league franchise of the same name that had been the top farm team of the Chicago Cubs. “The other Wrigley Field” can be seen in Home Run Derby rebroadcasts on ESPN Classic, and was the site of several baseball movies.
There are other old parks named for their owners. Briggs Stadium and Navin Field were the previous names of Tiger Stadium. Wanna guess who owned the team when? Or who owned the Pirates when Forbes Field was built?
Any guesses who owned the Indians when Jacobs Field was built, for a newer example?
The first “neotraditional” baseball stadium in the United States was built in Buffalo, New York – it was the model for parks such as Camden Yards and Coors Field.
What is the name of that stadium? Dunn Tire Park. Might as well be Bob’s Sunoco Field, for all it’s worth.
I say let’s just all follow the example of the Texas Rangers; The Ballpark in Arlington.
Or at least it was last I knew.
And then there were the Polo Grounds, sponsored by Ralph Lauren.
Well, 3Com will not be renewing its contract with the 49ers and the city of San Francisco following the end of the football stadium. Baruch hashem, maybe we’ll go back to Candlestick Park. Not like anyone not being paid to actually ever called it anything else. Except maybe “that godforsaken hellhole”, of course.
And one episode of “The Munsters”.
Here in Lansing, our minor league team plays at Oldsmobile Park. General Motors put up a million dollars for the naming rights.
For a class A team.:rolleyes:
GM is now shutting Olds down. No word on if they are going to rename the stadium.
Slight hijack, but I’ve always wondered how did they get that name? Candlestick?
I believe that the Cubbies are an original National League franchise dating to the 1870’s. The Braves (Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta) are as well. The redlegs have been in Cincinnati since 1869 and are considered baseballs first pro team.
When it opened, wasn’t named Pilot Field, after a trucking company or something?
It was built on a piece of land named Candlestick Point, which, if you’re drunk enough, might look something like a candlestick.
D’Oh!
Real brain fart here - what I meant to say was that the team was purchased from owners in Cincinatti (the Tafts?) in 1916. The Cubs were a franchise known as the White Stockings previous to 1902, when a reporter penned the name. Sorry for the confusion.
Not exactly. You see, on the point are boulders which have been eroded by wind and tide to resemble giant candelsticks. cite