That group had run out of money, but the City of Chandler never showed a willingness to take over operation costs. That partnership, the Brewers and Harry Dalton in particular, we salvaged the Cactus League. This stadium cast the die for new stadiums here. Everybody copied it. It's really a shame.
Baseball brings hundreds of thousands of dollars here every spring.
It put Chandler on the map. Dalton, on hand to participate in the closing ceremony, recalled the first week the stadium opened. A gas explosion literally lifted the roof off the place, badly burning former coach Tony Muser and a handful of other coaches and players. If that had been a steel roof, the force would have been contained inside and it would have been worse. We were fortunate.