Explore the Giants’ Minor League ballparks
The Minor League Ballpark Guides sequence spotlights every stadium throughout baseball’s affiliated ranks. Each version supplies ballpark highlights, from concessions to seating choices to in-game leisure to mascots. Ballpark Guides additionally take vacationers via every facility’s surrounding space, encompassing one of the best locations on the town to eat or drink, close by vacationer points of interest and extra. Plan your Minor League Baseball street journey as we speak!
For Giants prospects, the journey to the Bay Area has a distinctly California look, albeit with a twinge of southern taste. Along the way in which, 4 distinctive ballparks — and cities — take middle stage.
Let’s give them their due:
Single-A: San Jose Giants, Excite Ballpark
Many Minor League groups have wealthy partnerships with a mother or father membership, however few associates can match the San Jose Giants’ ties to the massive league group simply up the 101 Freeway. The metropolis’s connection to the Giants runs so deep that within the a long time earlier than the development of Oracle Park, there have been plans at numerous factors to maneuver the massive league crew to San Jose. Read extra »
High-A: Eugene Emeralds, PK Park
Welcome to Eugene’s PK Park, the place Giants play earlier than they’re totally grown. The hometown Emeralds share their stadium with the Ducks, an amiable bear and a maybe not-so-amiable sasquatch. Read extra »
Double-A: Richmond Flying Squirrels, The Diamond
Professional baseball in Richmond dates all the way in which again to 1884, and a Minor League crew has referred to as the town house in almost each season since. Flying Squirrels was the profitable choice in a “Name the Team” contest, chosen primarily as a result of it will be well-liked with youngsters and households. (It does not damage that squirrels love nuts, as a result of the state of Virginia is chock filled with peanuts.) Read extra »
Triple-A: Sacramento River Cats, Sutter Health Park
California’s capital metropolis is arguably the best American baseball city to by no means have had an enormous league crew. Sacramento’s love affair with the sport goes again at the least to the Gold Rush, with a slew of nice gamers coming from the world and the native franchise serving as a stalwart via the glory days of the Pacific Coast League. Read extra »
