Success for the Captains: Creating fan-friendly facilities

摘要

Minor league baseball facilities combine the fan-friendly fun of pro-level baseball with community-based special events and traveling entertainment. The stadium is a hub that draws activity and revenue to a city and the surrounding community. For theLake County Captains, a single-A South Atlantic League affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, that stadium is Classic Park. The stadium opened in 2003 in Eastlake, Ohio, an eastern suburb of Cleveland. Greg Elliott, the team's director of turf operations, is in charge of th,e field and the surrounding landscape. He also oversees the stadium cleaning crew.