Everything about Autozone Park totally explained
AutoZone Park is a
minor league baseball stadium located in downtown
Memphis,
Tennessee and the home of the
Memphis Redbirds of the
Pacific Coast League, the AAA affiliate of the
St. Louis Cardinals. It cost over $80 million, by far the most ever spent on a structure dedicated to minor league baseball. It has a
seating capacity of 12,512, and has been aptly described as "one-third" of a major league baseball park. It was built to "big-league" standards, the primary difference being the absence of outfield seats or seats far down the foul lines, and could perhaps be better described as a "major league stadium with only the 'good' seats". It opened in 2000 and replaced
Tim McCarver Stadium. The stadium also hosts some games for the
University of Memphis baseball team, most notably, the annual game with
Ole Miss. Naming rights are held by the auto parts chain
AutoZone, which is based in Memphis.
Unlike other cities, Memphis doesn't have to worry about its team threatening to move elsewhere. The Redbirds, in a situation almost unique in American pro sports, are owned by a
non-profit community foundation, titled the
Memphis Redbirds Foundation (the
Green Bay Packers of the
NFL have a similar ownership structure).
In October of
2005, AutoZone Park became the first venue outside of
New Orleans to host the
Voodoo Music Experience. One day of this music festival was moved to Memphis due to
Hurricane Katrina.
On
December 4,
2006, at the
Major League Baseball Winter Meetings, MLB announced that an
exhibition game to be called the
Civil Rights Game would be held annually at
AutoZone Park, with the first game on
March 31,
2007. The game featured the Cardinals and the
Cleveland Indians, with the Cardinals winning 5-1. The second game was played on
March 29,
2008, between the
Chicago White Sox and the
New York Mets. The Mets Defeated the White Sox 3-2.
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