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GOODYEAR BALLPARK
Capacity 8,000 fixed seats, 500 premium seats, 1,600 berm seats, 400-seat party area, 6 suites
Year Opened 2009
Dimensions 345L, 410C, 345R
Surface Grass
Website indians.mlb.com.
Local Airport Phoenix.
Ticket Prices Premium Field Box, $27; Cub Seating, $27; Infield Box, #23; Outfield Box, $18; Outfield Reserved, $12; Right Field Pavilion (includes all you care to eat), $30.
On Sale Saturday, December 15 at 10 a.m.
Ticket Line 1-866-48-TRIBE.
Address Goodyear, Arizona
Directions 1933 S. Ballpark Way, Goodyear. Goodyear is located in the southwest corner of the greater Phoenix area. From I-10, take Estrella Parkway South. Continue on Estrella Parkway; you'll see the ballpark on your left after you pass Van Buren.

CHAIN OF LAKES PARK

The Indians trained for several years at Winter Haven't Chain of Lakes Park, originally built in 1966 as the spring home of the Boston Red Sox. A 1993 renovation did nothing to diminish the ballpark's mid-1960's charm: the covered grandstand is perfectly proportioned, and if you wander a little around the grandstand's small concourse you can easily see the other practice fields in the facility as well as Lake Lulu. While there's a good amount of seating here, there's not a lot of room for amenities: there's a small concourse in the back of the grandstand and a small concourse near the souvenir shop down the third-base line.

The ballpark will likely be torn down in the next year, as Winter Haven eyes a redevelopment there.

 

People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
—Rogers Hornsby