Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium is a baseball stadium in Tucson, Arizona. Arizona Diamondbacks and the Chicago White Sox previously utilized the park for the Cactus League match every March and have a small league complex on their premises. It was also home to Tucson Sidewinders of the Pacific Coast League for the final decade of the team in Tucson, running from the season of 1998 stadium to the 2008 season. During that time, it was known as Tucson Electric Park or TEP .
The stadium is a temporary home (2011-2013) to Tucson Padres (formerly Portland Beavers) of the Pacific Coast League during a team relocation to El Paso, Texas. It seats 11,500 fans. Concerts are often held in stadiums as well. Now the pre-season home of Major League Soccer's New York Red Bulls, co-hosted with Kino North Stadium of the preseason Desert Diamond Cup soccer tournament, and the regular season home of Tucson Saguaros team team Pecos League. The stadium also hosts a Mexican League spring training game.
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History
Training of spring and place AAA
Tucson Electric Park opened in 1998. Larger and more modern than Central Tucson's Hi Corbett Field, located 4 miles south of Hi Corbett, at the crossroads of several major roads including I-10 and SR-86. TEP opened the same year when the Arizona Diamondbacks started operating in Phoenix, and Tucson Toros moved from Hi Corbett to TEP, renamed Tucson Sidewinders, and became an AAA Diamondbacks affiliate. Furthermore, Diamondbacks themselves became TEP tenants for spring training, sharing facilities with the Chicago White Sox (which moved from their previous spring training facility in Sarasota, Florida). Across town, the Colorado Rockies continue their spring training at Hi Corbett Field.
Departure of MLB spring training
The Chicago White Sox has an agreement to move to Glendale at the stadium completed in the 2009 season. However, Sox 'lease TEP will last until 2012. To leave the initial TEP, the Sox proposed a youth baseball academy supported by Major League Baseball around TEP. On November 18, 2008, the Pima County Supervisory Board approved the White Sox revised offer of $ 5 million, allowing the team to move to Glendale in time for the 2009 season. Colorado Rockies, spring training residents at Tucson's Hi Corbett Field, and Arizona Diamondbacks, are tenants at the TEP and Kino Sports Complex, indicating that they will need Tucson to have three teams in order to continue playing there. Tucson is therefore left behind as a spring training ground, and all Cactus League matches are now underway in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Diamondbacks and Rockies share a new Salt River Field on the Talking Stick, which opened in 2011 near Scottsdale.
Departure Sidewinders
Tucson Sidewinders also played their last season at TEP in 2008. The team moved to Reno, Nevada, renamed themselves Reno Aces and remained an AAA Diamondbacks affiliate.
At the same time, the Reno Silver Sox of an independent Gold Baseball League, abandoned due to the arrival of Aces, moved to Tucson. Instead of using TEP, the new team places itself on the more historic Hi Corbett Field and takes back the historic name of Tucson Toros.
TEP thus, for the time being, without Major League or league baseball tenants.
Rename
In 2010, after the expiration of the naming agreement with local electric utility, Tucson Electric Power, the stadium was renamed after Eusebio Kino, the Jesuit missionary who first explored southern Arizona in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The Pima County Supervisory Board approved the name change (Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium) on January 18, 2011.
Tucson Padres
In 2011, the San Diego Padres Triple-A affiliates moved from Portland, Oregon to the Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium and changed its name to Tucson Padres. They were formerly known as Portland Beavers. Initially the San Diego Padres organization wanted to set up the stadium for approval and was built in Escondido, California, but the stadium plan then failed when California rid their rebuilding agent. The team departs Tucson for El Paso, Texas before the start of the 2014 season and assumed the name "El Paso Chihuahua."
Pima Community College
The Pima Community College Aztecs played his home game at the Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium for several seasons. The team will move to the North Kino Sports Complex Stadium for the 2014 Football fall.
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References
External links
Media related to Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium in Wikimedia Commons
- Kino Sports Complex, Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium operator
- Kino Veteran Memorial Stadium - The Ball Park in the Small League
- Ballpark pages at dbacks.com
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