In this episode of “Ballparks Around the World” we pay attention to one of the newest ballparks in AAA: Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin, Nevada, home of the Las Vegas Aviators. This episode comes rather quick after the previous one about Blacktown Baseball Stadium in Sydney, but yours truly bumped into a video of a…
Last weekend, the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians took on each other in the annual Las Vegas Big League Weekend. This event is organized every year and hosts two MLB clubs to play a set of spring training games in Sin City. This year’s edition was the very last held at Cashman Field as…
Cashman Field in Las Vegas will host the first-ever Mexican Baseball Fiesta. Earlier this month, the Las Vegas 51s featured MiLB’s “It’s fun to be a fan campaign” in which the AAA teams sported Spanish names on their jerseys. In Las Vegas’ case, the 51s were named Reyes de la Plata for one day. Now…
According to Amarillo Global News, the city of Amarillo is negotiating with an affiliated minor league club to play in the Texan city. Which club and how far the negotiations are is not known yet. Asked about an item on Tuesday’s city council agenda regarding the “Negotiation of Lease and Management Agreement with Affiliated Baseball Team…
The city of Las Vegas has made no secret they want the Las Vegas 51s out of Cashman Field. The city wants to expand the adjacent convention center, Cashman Center, and it needs the ground of Cashman Field to build the expansion. Several locations were presented, as Summerlin was one of them but all proposals shattered…
It is no secret that the city of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Convention Center want to get rid of the 51s. Perhaps this is the reason that Cashman Field is heavily neglected. At the end of last season the sewage near the home team dugout broke down as the toilets started to bubble…
