Insight Guides: Experience San Francisco by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, USA
Publisher: APA
Published: 2016-07-06T04:00:00+00:00

Step on the field where the Giants play baseball on a behind-the-scenes tour

Nowitz Photography/Apa Publications

San Francisco’s Major League baseball team, the Giants, are steeped in history and beloved by people from all walks of life. In 2000, baseball took a great leap forward with the opening of AT&T Park, an architectural delight directly on the waterfront in South Beach’s sunny China Basin.

Replacing distant and drafty Candlestick Park, this park features perfect sightlines, fantastic food, a grand view of the Bay Bridge, easy public transit, and its highlight – ‘splash hit’ home runs into McCovey Cove in the bay over the right-field wall.

The park offers behind-the-scenes public tours, letting you step onto the legendary field and visit the dugouts, batting cages, clubhouse and press box, and a luxury suite.

Game tickets for the visitor are best found online at www.stubhub.com or https://seatgeek.com – though for many games tickets are available at the box office on game day, with most seats between $15–85. Locals know you can also watch the game for free from the right-field promenade, standing room only.

Arrive early to circle the ballpark and see statues of Giants greats Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and Juan Marichal, and walk the waterfront promenade where boats vie for positions to scoop up home-run balls.

For pre-game festivities, a cluster of sports bars and restaurants have sprung up in the area, the best being the boisterous patio of Momo’s (760 Second Street; tel: 415-227-8660; [map] H2).

AT&T Park; 24 Willie Mays Plaza; tel: 415-972-2400; http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com; tours daily 10.30am and 12.30pm excluding game days; [map] H2

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