Baseball Big Leagues Return To Las Vegas For Two Weekends Of Spring Training Games In 2020
By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Back in the good ol’ days when baseball was played at Cashman Field, the former ballpark in downtown Las Vegas would be overflowing with baseball fans during a spring training weekend. It was called Big League Weekend by the local tourism agency and usually the Cubs would play another MLB team on a Saturday and Sunday at Cashman in March.
It was marketed as a tourism event because that public tourism agency — Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority — promoted Big League Weekend.
In 2019, Big League Weekend was scratched in Las Vegas because the Triple A baseball team’s new ball yard — Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin — was not ready to host the spring training games in March.
But, now Big League Weekend has returned with not one but two spring training weekends at the Aviators ballpark in Downtown Summerlin.
The first weekend pits the Cleveland Indians against the Oakland Athletics on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 29 and March 1. Game times for the spring training series will be 1:05 p.m. (PT). Then the following weekend, the Cincinnati Reds will face the Chicago Cubs in a two-game series on Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8 at 1:05 p.m. (PT). Big League Weekend ticket packages are available by calling the Aviators office. Individual game tickets will go on sale in early 2020.
The LVCVA gave $80 million to the Aviators’ owner, Summerlin master developer Howard Hughes Corporation, in the form of a ballpark naming rights deal. Here’s more info on Big League Weekend.
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