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Silver Stadium was a baseball stadium located at 500 Norton Street in Rochester, New York. It was the home stadium for the Rochester Red Wings of the International League from 1929 to 1996, and for the New York Black Yankees of the Negro National League for their final season in 1948.
Silver hosted its last regular-season Red Wings game in August 1996. It was a glorious affair, with the sold-out ballpark hosting a variety of special guests and a splendid, emotion-filled farewell.
The original silver-like roof was built of Teflon-coated fiberglass panels, and supported by air pressure inside the stadium. Although the roof has always been white in color as viewed with the naked eye, the stadium obtained the name "Silverdome" (which it would officially take on in 1977) due to a silver-like reflection caused by the Sun ...
The franchise played from 1929 through 1996 at Silver Stadium (called Red Wing Stadium from 1929 to 1968) and moved to Frontier Field in 1997. The Red Wings, along with the Pawtucket Red Sox, hold the record for the longest professional baseball game, lasting a total of 33 innings and 8 hours, 25 minutes over the course of three different days.
You won't find it in any history book, but July 4, 1948, is significant date in Rochester history. It's the day when Johnny Antonelli, the greatest modern baseball player in Rochester history ...
The ballpark opened in 1929 as Red Wing Stadium and was hailed as the "Taj Mahal" of minor league ballparks for its grandeur. Silver Stadium was beloved for its cozy feel and the memories created ...
The park opened in 1996, replacing Silver Stadium in northern Rochester, which had been home to professional baseball in Rochester since 1929. Although the stadium was built for baseball, Innovative Field has had several tenants in numerous sports, including the Rochester Raging Rhinos of the United Soccer Leagues from 1996 to 2005, and the ...
Originally known as Las Vegas Stadium, the name was changed to Las Vegas Silver Bowl in 1978, Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in 1984, and Sam Boyd Stadium on April 26, 1994. The original seating capacity was 15,000 through 1977, raised to 32,000 in 1978, and to 36,800 in 1999. [7] Except from 1999 to 2002, the stadium has had an artificial turf surface. [8]