Cashman Field
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| Location | 850 North Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 United States |
| Broke ground | 1981[1] |
| Opened | April 1, 1983[2] |
| Owner | Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority |
| Operator | Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority |
| Surface | Grass |
| Construction cost | $21.9 million[3] ($48.3 million in 2012 dollars[4]) |
| Architect | R. Gary Allen Design Architects[5] |
| General Contractor | Mardian Construction Co.[6] |
| Capacity | 9,334 (12,500 with standing room + berm) |
| Field dimensions | Left Field - 328 ft Center Field - 433 ft Right Field - 323 ft |
| Tenants | |
| Las Vegas 51s (PCL) (1983-present) Oakland Athletics (MLB) (1996) |
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Cashman Field is a stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Its primary use is for baseball, and is the home field of the Las Vegas 51s Triple-A minor league baseball team, an affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. Cashman Field opened in 1983 and has a maximum capacity of 9,334. It was named for the Cashman family, who have been Las Vegas entrepreneurs for several generations.
The stadium played host to the Oakland Athletics as their "home" field for the first part of the 1996 season due to renovations taking place at the Oakland Coliseum.
The field is adjacent to Cashman Center, an exhibit hall and theater, operated by the Convention and Visitors Authority.
Cashman Field has been suggested as a temporary stadium several times in the city's efforts to woo either a Major League Baseball expansion team, or an existing team desiring to move. The stadium would be the home of a baseball team until a permanent facility could be built. It had come up in the city's talks to lure the former Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, and Oakland Athletics. However, the park would need considerable expansion, particularly in seating capacity, in order to host a team. The substantial costs which would be incurred in expansion and construction of a new stadium, as well as MLB concerns over Las Vegas's legalized gambling, have so far kept the city's proposals from achieving success. Cashman Field has also been considered to be the home stadium for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League starting in 2011. Cashman Field was home to the Triple-A World Series from 1998 until 2000.
[edit] References
- ^ http://library.nevada.edu/speccol/databases/index.php?coll=photocoll&recid=157
- ^ http://www.zvents.com/z/las-vegas-nv/cashman-field--venues--11818
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_hhcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MVUNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1162,3804517&dq=cashman+field&hl=en
- ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2008. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/673913502.html?dids=673913502:673913502&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+01%2C+1984&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Rob+Quigley+Wins+3+of+8+Top+Awards&pqatl=google
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_hhcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MVUNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1162,3804517&dq=cashman+field&hl=en
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Coordinates: 36°10′46.8″N 115°07′47.9″W / 36.179667°N 115.129972°W
