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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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