some great views in this conference.

I've seen 10-12 games at San Josè Municipal Stadium. It gets packed for SJ Giants games because of its affordability for pro baseball, MLB affiliate, and unique promotions like the beer batter (If a designated opposing player strikes out before the 7th certain beers are half price for a limited time.) What is pretty neat is that the outside of the ballpark is decorated with pictures of notable SJ Giants alumni like Brandon Belt and Brandon Crawford.

Also, there are funny quotes on the walls from baseball immortals. There's one from Hall of Fame manager Tommy LaSorda claiming that if Mike Sciosia (former Dodgers catcher and Angels manager) got in a foot race with his pregnant wife he would finish third. It's a pretty old park-built in the 1940's.

So it's a nice place to see a minor league game but looks like a ghost town for the Spartans. They are the secondary tenants, and from looking at the Spartans schedule it looks like they play a lot of day games, and some of their games end early not due to weather (time crunch w/the Giants' practices?) It's a city ballpark just a couple of blocks from the football stadium.

I would recommend for anyone thinking of going there to see an SJ Giants game instead of SJSU, so as to see the place at its best.

Also, and this is important, you pretty much need to drive there. There is no public transportation whatsoever that will take you within even 1/2 mile of the place + you definitely don't want to walk/bike there. I thought I was clever just walking from the America's Best Value Inn (closest lodging), avoiding parking. Do not do this ! Like other parts of San Josè there are missing sidewalks + you're forced to walk really close to a large homeless encampment on E. Alma Ave. each time-garbage everywhere.

The America's Best Value is actually very clean + nicely maintained but there's just this thing about reasonably-priced (and reasonably-priced in SJ means under $200/night for even a motel room) lodgings there. You have to watch out for ladies of the night. I was kept awake for a bit by one of them talking outside my room with a client on her phone. Earlier, her pimp gave me a nasty look when I left my room. Not a nice part of town either. Stay in a nicer area + drive there.

I have been to Peecole Park (Nevada), but it doesn't really have anything on Dobbins Stadium. If Greater Nevada Field (where the Triple-A Reno Aces play) is any indication, the altitude definitely thwarts pitching. The other day the River Cats played an 11inning game there. After 10 innings it was tied 7-7. Sacramento won in the 11th by a score of 15-13 ! Greater Nevada is a nice stadium, but I thought the food sucked. Better just to eat and gamble at "The Row", which is maybe 2 blocks from Greater Nevada and about a mile from the UNR campus.

UNLV's ballpark looks sharp. I was going to include it on a visit to LV during COVID-19 but wound up cancelling it + going to El Paso, where I was able to eat inside Applebee's while all the losers in CA had to socially-distance outside or get take-out. Getting away from CA made the whole trip worthwile UTEP doesn't have a team but the AAA El Paso Chihuahuas have a really neat-looking park, the interior of which you can completely view from the pedestrian path behind the third base side. One could hypothetically set up a lawn chair + watch a game as well as anybody in the park It has a much smaller capacity (only 7-8,000) than Sutter Health Park but still has two decks. I saw a guy there who looked just like Dale Gribble on "King of the Hill"-that is to say a very skinny caucasian man with an orange hat and glasses who smokes a lot.