Oracle Park

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Updated On :09 Apr, 2021

Full Name
Oracle Park

Capacity
Baseball: 41,915standing room capacity:1,500NCAA Football: 45,000 (2011 season only)

Type
Outdoor

Location
San Francisco, California, United States of America

Oracle Park, formerly knows as AT&T Park and is a well-known baseball park in San Francisco, California, that opened on 11th April 2000. An estimated amount of $357 million was spent on the construction of the park. The top architecture firm that built the park was Populous (then known as HOK Sport). The arena was known as the Pacific Bell Park between 2000-2003 and as SBC Park from 2004 to 2005. Since 2000, the park has been the home of the San Francisco Giants of MLB. The Oracle Park has hosted professional and college-level American football games, the annual college postseason bowl game and the Foster Farms Bowl from 2002 to 2013. Originally named Pacific Bell Park, then SBC Park, then AT&T Park, the current name of the stadium was borrowed from Oracle Corporation in 2019.

Trivia

The ballpark boasts of 122 wireless internet access points in the stadium. It was installed by the "San Francisco Giants" in 2004 and became one of the largest public hotspots in the world during that time.
The park was given the LEED Silver Certification for Existing Buildings, Operations and Maintenance in April 2010. It became the first MLB Ballpark to receive such certification.

Significance

The park has witnessed the American League defeating the National League by 5-4 at the 2007 MLB All-Star Game.
The Park has served as auditions venue for the 10th season of the American Idol in 2010.
The stadium hosted the AMA Supercross Championship round from 2003 to 2010.
The park has also hosted game 3, game 4 and game 5 of the 2014 World Series, held on 24th, 25th, and 26th October, respectively.
Oracle Park has hosted game 1 and game 2 of the 2012 World Series, held on 24th and 25th October, respectively.
Prominent television personality and Actress Kim Kardashian was proposed by American rapper and songwriter Kanye West at Oracle Park in October 2013.
The San Francisco Giants' Jonathan Sánchez pitched the first no-hitter at the Oracle Park on 10th July 2009.