Cheney Stadium, Baseball venue in Tacoma, United States.
Cheney Stadium is a baseball venue in Tacoma, Washington, with a continuous grandstand curving around the field, split into lower and upper tiers by a walkway. A dark roof runs along the top, and a lattice light tower with a horizontal bank of lamps rises behind the stands near center. The field has a green outfield and brown dirt infield.
Cheney Stadium opened in 1960, built in 42 working days after the San Francisco Giants agreed to move their Triple-A affiliate from Phoenix if Tacoma could open the park for the 1960 season. It has hosted Pacific Coast League baseball continuously since then, through seven teams from the Tacoma Giants to the Rainiers. Light towers and wooden grandstand seats came from San Francisco's Seals Stadium, and some wooden seats remain.
The stadium's name honours Ben Cheney, the local businessman who pushed to bring minor league baseball to Tacoma and was put in charge of the project; Clay Huntington worked alongside him from 1957. Seven Pacific Coast League teams have played here since 1960, from the Tacoma Giants to the Rainiers, and the wooden grandstand seats salvaged from San Francisco's Seals Stadium can still be found in the stands.
Cheney Stadium sits next to Henry Foss High School, and the stadium has an agreement with the school to use its parking lot. The playing field measures 325 feet down the left and right field lines and 425 feet to center field. Converting the venue for soccer takes only one day.
The stadium was built in just 42 working days in 1960, after the San Francisco Giants agreed to move their Triple-A team from Phoenix if Tacoma could open the park for the start of the season. Its construction reused light towers and wooden grandstand seats from Seals Stadium in San Francisco; several of those wooden seats remain in place.
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