Telus Field (nicknamed the Phone Booth) is a baseball stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is home to the Edmonton Capitals of the independent Golden Baseball League, and former home of the Edmonton Trappers, an AAA baseball team of the Pacific Coast League. The Trappers moved to Round Rock, Texas and became the Round Rock Express after the 2004 season. The facility is located in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, on the south end of Downto...
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Telus Field (nicknamed the Phone Booth) is a baseball stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is home to the Edmonton Capitals of the independent Golden Baseball League, and former home of the Edmonton Trappers, an AAA baseball team of the Pacific Coast League. The Trappers moved to Round Rock, Texas and became the Round Rock Express after the 2004 season. The facility is located in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, on the south end of Downtown Edmonton.
Opened in 1995, Telus Field replaced the 60 year-old John Ducey Park (formerly Renfrew Park) on the same site. The stadium's naming rights were purchased by the Telus telecommunications company in September 1995 for a 14 year deal. It has 12 foot walls all the way around except in center field, where the batters eye is a 34-foot green monster which is the third highest wall in professional baseball; no player has ever hit a home run over it. Telus Field is a well-regarded ballpark in North America, and had the highest ratings for...
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