Park Name: Recreation Ballpark Tenants: Visalia Rawhide (Low-A West) Opened: 1946 Address: 300 North Giddings Street, Visalia, California 93291 Dimensions: 320' (L), 405' (C), 320' (R) Former Tenants: Visalia Cubs (California League) 1946-1952 Visalia Stars (California League) 1953 Visalia Cubs (California League) 1954-1956 Visalia Redlegs (California League) 1957-1959 Visalia Athletics (California League) 1960-1961 Visalia White Sox (California League) 1962 Visalia Mets (California League) 1968-1975 Visalia Oaks (California League) 1977-1992 Central Valley Rockies (California League) 1993-1994 Visalia Oaks (California League) 1995-2008 Visalia Rawhide (California League) 2009-2019 The view from behind home plate at Recreation Park. The grandstand is a small but steep concrete bowl with a small pressbox and bare bones suites along the top. An additional area of seating was added to the park during a 2009 renovation and features more modern enclosed suites. The Visalia Professional Baseball Wall of Fame runs in front of the restaurant and suites on the first base side. "The World's Largest Cowbell" sits on the "pasture" berm and rings whenever the Rawhide hit a home run. A sign on the outfield concourse shows the distances to all of the other parks in the Arizona Diamondbacks farm system. A small scoreboard sits above the left field fence, and tall round plaques celebrate Visalia's retired numbers and California League titles. The main scoreboard sits above the right field wall. The groundskeepers shed is painted to look like a barn. The Visalia Rawhide on the field during a game at Recreation Ballpark. |
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