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Aviators Win Final Game Of 2021 Home Schedule With Sellout Crowd of 9,401 Monday, Average 6,590 Fans A Game For 65 Home Dates

Alan Snel

 

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Story by Alan Snel                                 Photos by J. Tyge O’Donnell

It’s not Las Vegas if strange things don’t happen and it’s not every day a successful Triple A baseball team that plays in one of Minor League Baseball’s swankiest ballyards has its parent MLB team sniffing around the same market for a big league ballpark site.

It’s true. The Oakland Athletics’ Triple A team, the Las Vegas Aviators, just wrapped up its home schedule Monday. Truth be told, the Oakland franchise’s foray into Las Vegas for a ballpark site smells like a leverage play as the MLB team tries to work out a ballpark deal in Oakland.

The A’s can look all they want in Las Vegas.

Their Triple A affiliate, owned by Summerlin master developer Howard Hughes Corporation, just completed the 39th home schedule of professional baseball in Las Vegas as the Aviators defeated the Oklahoma City Dodgers, 11-9, before the season’s sixth sellout crowd of 9,401 at the ballpark in Downtown Summerlin.

 

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The Aviators play their final five games of the 2021 schedule on the road in Reno.

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.

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