Every one of these 10 treks holds a memory or two. Triple A baseball went from three leagues down to just two, and that left these teams in the PCL.
El Paso might have the single greatest marketing concession stand item of all time ! The mascot is the Chihuahuas and they serve you some items in an actual dog bowl 🥣.
The little known fact about baseball played out west is the altitude that many of these parks sit at and how it affects both the batting averages and the pitchers earned run averages.
5,110 feet is the ( The Lab ) level above the sea in Albuquerque as one example. The nickname of the park is just another way that the folks at the AAA level work to make things fun !
This particular loop ended when I attended a game in the suburbs of Houston, at the home park of the Sugarland Space Cowboys. Finding a way to tie in both NASA and Texas into the team name….
