We hit the ground running this morning to get to a 12:05 game in Richmond. We actually ended up getting into the city around 11, so we tried to drive around downtown a little bit. This was virtually impossible, due to every street being either one way, blocked, or having red lights. Very difficult. That said, the VCU campus looked old. The statehouse was kind of boring.
Anyway, the ballpark. It was easy to find because it is huge and it is concrete, and it is more concrete. $3 Parking, onsite and easy to get in and out of. The exterior is not particularly attractive, but there was a $1 mini-golf course on site, very basic, and a place it looked like you could rent out for a party ahead of time, basically a picnic shelter with a bunch of tables.
The concourse is kind of hidden behind the stands. There are two levels, and this place could hold 9000+ people. There was 4423 announced attendance. It looked even emptier than that. And the top 10 rows were tarped over with logos. Their team store I did very much like in the fact that there were huge windows that you could see the field from the store. The team name is the Flying Squirrels, so this is a hat I had been looking forward to! They market that fun name well, with a tough looking mascot, and branding all over the place. Good luck to them, I hope they do better business than they did that day!
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