- Canwest Park
Infobox Stadium
stadium_name = Canwest Park
nickname = "The Fishbowl"
location = One Portage Avenue EastWinnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3N3
broke_ground =
owner =Sam Katz
operator =
opened =May 24 ,1999
construction_cost =
architect =
former_names = Canwest Global Park
tenants =Winnipeg Goldeyes (NL) (1999 -present)
seating_capacity =Baseball : 7,481
dimensions = Left - 325'
Center - 400'
Right - 325'Canwest Park, formerly CanWest Global Park, is the home of the
Winnipeg Goldeyes Northern Leaguebaseball team inWinnipeg, Manitoba .It is a modern stadium that opened
May 24 ,1999 , and served as the baseball venue during the1999 Pan American Games . The facility has been expanded twice, and currently has the largest seating capacity in the Northern League, with 7,481 seats. It is located indowntown Winnipeg , within sight of Winnipeg's renownedPortage and Main intersection and immediately adjacent to The Forks National Historic Site.The facility is named after Canwest Ltd.,
Canada 's largest international media company, but sometimes goes by the nickname "The Fishbowl" ("goldeye" being a species of freshwater fish native to Winnipeg's waterways). The facility was originally planned to be called "Mind Field", chosen from a stadium-naming contest with title sponsorMind Computers . However, negative connotations due to the chosen stadium name sounding similar tominefield , as well as Mind Computers bailing out of their naming rights agreement before the stadium opened, led to the scrapping of those original plans. The name of the stadium was officially changed to Canwest Park onJanuary 16 ,2008 , following the media company's name change fromCanWest Global to Canwest. [ [http://books.google.ca/books?id=j6G45jb-fA8C&pg=RA1-PA55&lpg=RA1-PA55&dq=%22mind+computer%22+baseball+winnipeg&source=web&ots=20NbAmOPoJ&sig=9d4aQhiNuuXBDZzUDdVczAW4SfU&hl=en Home Run: The History of the Winnipeg Goldeyes and CanWest Global Park] ]References
External links
* [http://www.goldeyes.com/pages/ballpark/index.asp Official Site]
* [http://www.ballparkwatch.com/visits/winnipeg_3.htm Ballpark Digest] succession box
title = Home of theWinnipeg Goldeyes
years = 1999 – current
before =Winnipeg Stadium
after = incumbent
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