Surface Grass Capacity 15,411 Owner Salt Lake City Team Salt Lake Bees | Opened 1994 Phone +1 385-222-8864 Architecture firm Populous | |
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Former names Franklin Quest Field (1994–1997)
Franklin Covey Field (1997–2009)
Spring Mobile Ballpark (2009–2014) Location 1365 South West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84115 Operator Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment Group Record attendance 16,531 (July 22, 2000 vs. Albuquerque) Field size Left Field - 345 feet
Left-Center - 385 feet
Center Field - 420 feet
Right-Center - 375 feet
Right Field - 315 feet Address 77 W 1300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84115, USA Similar Ballpark, Isotopes Park, Werner Park, Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, Aces Ballpark | ||
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Smith's Ballpark (formerly known as Franklin Quest Field, later Franklin Covey Field, and most recently Spring Mobile Ballpark) is a baseball park in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Salt Lake Bees minor league baseball team and the Utah Utes baseball team. The stadium is located on the site of old Derks Field, Salt Lake City's former minor league ballpark. Smith's Ballpark was built in 1994 with a capacity of 15,411 people, which is the largest seating capacity in the Pacific Coast League.
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History
In its inaugural season, the Buzz set a PCL attendance record with 713,224 fans. The team led the PCL in attendance in each of its first six seasons in Salt Lake. The largest crowd at the ballpark occurred on July 22, 2000 against the Albuquerque Dukes with a crowd of 16,531 spectators.
Besides hosting the Salt Lake Bees, Smith's Ballpark has played host to two exhibition games featuring the Minnesota Twins, the 1996 and 2011 Triple-A All Star Game, a spring training game featuring the Seattle Mariners and the Colorado Rockies, concerts, soccer matches, and high school and college baseball games, including a Mountain West Conference tournament.
After Franklin Covey's 15-year naming rights agreements expired in 2009, an agreement with Spring Mobile, an AT&T Mobility authorized retailer, made the ballpark's name Spring Mobile Ballpark for five seasons.
On March 5, 2014, it was announced that Salt Lake City-based Smith's Food and Drug had signed a six-year naming rights deal, giving the park its current name.
Features
Smith's Ballpark has one of the biggest upper decks in Minor League Baseball, which is very uncommon in Minor League Baseball. The ballpark also contains 24 luxury suites on the third level along with two private party patios.
Smith's Ballpark is noted for its stunning views of the Wasatch Mountains over the left and center field walls.
Naming rights
When the ballpark first opened in 1994, it was called Franklin Quest Field, which the Franklin Quest Company paid $1.4 million for 15 years for the naming rights in the summer of 1993. It changed its name to Franklin Covey Field in 1997 after Franklin Quest merged with the Covey Leadership Center, becoming Franklin Covey.
On April 7, 2009, the Bees announced that they had reached a multi-year naming-rights deal with Spring Mobile (a Salt Lake City-based AT&T authorized retailer) to provide the ballpark's new name of Spring Mobile Ballpark which ran for five seasons. In 2014, Smith's Food and Drug signed a six-year agreement to rename it Smith's Ballpark.