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Sunday Photos At Las Vegas Ballpark

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By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

On this hot Sunday evening game in Las Vegas, it was a sedate crowd at the Aviators minor league ballpark in suburban Summerlin 12 miles west of the Strip.

The Las Vegas Aviators defeated the Sacramento River Cats, 6-3, thanks to a five-run rally in the bottom of the eighth inning.

LVSportsBiz.com dropped in at the ballpark, a venue that cost Aviators owner Howard Hughes Corporation $150 million to build. Lucky for Texas-based Howard Hughes Corp. that the LVCVA tourism agency was in a giving mood and authorized a stunning $80 million for Howard Hughes in the form of a naming rights deal. Thus, the ballyard in Downtown Summerlin is “Las Vegas Ballpark.”

The interesting thing about ballparks is that they lend themselves toward terrific photographic images because of the natural light changes at sunset, the geometry of the field and the personal nuances of people who want a night out.

Take a look:

 

 

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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