Ballpark
3Com Park at Candlestick Point
San Francisco · 1960–1999 · config 1999
Favors pitchers
(-0.3 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 335′ · LFA 365′ · LC 365′ · CF 400′ · RC 365′ · RFA 365′ · RF 328′
Walls LF 8′ · CF 9′ · RF 9′
Wind and cold — balls die
Cavernous foul ground
Capacity 57,546
The wind owns the Stick.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
About this park
Candlestick belonged to the wind. Cold air off the bay knocked down flies and turned summer nights into jacket weather. Pitchers preferred the Stick for the same reason hitters packed extra lumber and still came up short.
The dimensions themselves were only half the story; the gusts did the rest. A ball that carries in most parks died in right-center here. Walk out of the concourse and you felt the weather before you saw the grass — that was the park's greeting.