Perhaps the best thing about both party decks: they were shaded. (The away side sported artificial turf and no drink rails.) While these drink rails were a little too off the action to be usable for most of the game, they still attracted fans for most of the game. Seating down each line was removed and replaced by party decks, complete with their own concessions, picnic tables and drink rails on the home side. And then there’s the Lew Wolff Training Center at Fitch Park ( as we discussed here), which raising Athletics training abilities to a new level.īut we’ll focus here on the fan upgrades. For players, an expanded clubhouse with weight room provides more comfort than experienced at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. For fans, green and gold – as well as lots of grey paint – is the new theme, with a overhauled entry gate, new murals in the concourse, new fan decks, upgraded concessions and the largest LED videoboard in spring training.
The Hohokam Stadium renovation happened on a few different levels. Yesterday’s opener didn’t draw a packed house and there were some fans sporting Cubbies colors, but all in all it was an impressive debut. (It also opened as Hohokam Park, but sometime in the last year acquired the Hohokam Stadium name.) Every trace of the red and blue have been removed from Hohokam Stadium, as the A’s and Mesa forge a new identity. Hohokam Stadium was originally built in 1977 for the Athletics and then rebuilt in 1997 for the Chicago Cubs, and you can’t help but expect Ronny Woo Woo to be patrolling the outfield berm or Ron Santo chatting with fans from the press box when you visit. It will take some time for the Oakland A’s to make Hohokam Stadium their own, but yesterday’s debut of the renovated facility shows the team made the smart move in moving spring-training operations to Mesa. By Kevin Reichard on Main Major-League Baseball, News
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