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Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco's Hunters Point area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball 's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 until 1999, after which the Giants moved into Pacific Bell Park (since renamed Oracle Park) in 2000.
- US$15 million, ($148 million in 2022 dollars)
- San Francisco, California
- April 12, 1960
Sep 30, 1999 · Candlestick Park was built overlooking Candlestick Cove which was named long before due to the now extinct candlestick bird which used to live in the cove. In 1995 the city of San Francisco received a six-month five-hundred thousand dollar naming rights deal from 3Com Corporation. In 1996 3Com extended the contract through 2002 for $3.9 million.
Construction on the Giants new ballpark, Oracle Park, began in 1998 and the last Giants game at Candlestick Park was on September 30, 1999. The 49ers remained tenants at the stadium until playing their final game at Candlestick Park on December 23, 2013. They moved into a new football only stadium, Levis Stadium, in Santa Clara, CA in 2014.
Mar 2, 2022 · On August 29th, 1966, the Beatles performed their final concert at Candlestick Park. It was nicknamed Windlestick Park because of the strong cold breezes that blew in from San Francisco Bay, making both players and spectators miserable. On April 12, 1960, the Giants hosted the St. Louis Cardinals in the first game played at Candlestick.
Sep 17, 1995 · The rather geeky name, 3Com Park, stems from a company in Santa Clara that has something to do with computers, nothing vital like the arctic blasts and the nasty clouds that come roaring over the ...
Six World Series games have been played at Candlestick Park, but the most memorable October event there was the World Series game that wasn’t played.That was on October 17, 1989, when an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale preempted what was to have been Game 3 of the 1989 Bay Bridge World Series against the Oakland A’s.
The rights to the stadium name were licensed to 3Com Corporation from September 1995 until 2002, for $900,000 a year. During that time, the park became known as 3Com Park at Candlestick Point, or, simply, 3Com Park. In 2002, the naming rights deal expired, and the park then became officially known as San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Point.
