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Candlestick Park
Tenants: San Francisco Giants (NL); San Francisco 49ers (NFL)
Opened: April 12, 1960
Last Giants game: September 30, 1999
Current status: Still used for football
Surface: Bluegrass (1960-1970; 1979-1999); artificial (1971-1978)
Capacity: 43,765 (1960); 42,553 (1961); 42,500 (1965); 58,000 (1972); 59,080 (1975); 58,000 (1976); 62,000 (1989); 58,000 (1993, baseball)
Architect: John Bolles; Chin and Hensolt (engineers)
Construction: Charles Harney
Owner: City of San Francisco
Cost: $15 million
Location: In the southeast corner of San Francisco at Candlestick point. Left field (NW), Giants Drive; third base (SW), Jamestown Avenue and Bay View Hill; first base (SE), Jamestown Avenue, Candlestick Point, and San Francisco; right field (NE), Hunters Point Expressway and San Francisco Bay.
Dimensions: Left field: 330 (1960), 335 (1968); left-center: 397 (1960), 365 (1961); center field: 420 (1960), 410 (1961), 400 (1982); right-center: 397 (1960), 365 (1961), 365 (1982); right field: 330 (1965), 335 (1968), 330 (1991), 328 (1993); backstop: 73 (1960), 70 (1961), 55 (1975), 65 (1982), 66 (1985); foul territory: very large.
Fences: 10 (wire, 1960); 8 (wire, 1972); 12 (6 canvas below 6 plexiglass, 1975); 9 (6 canvas below 3 plexiglass, 1982); 9 (wire, 1984), 9.5 (fence posts, 1984); 8 (canvas, 1993).
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