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The Wildcats will have lots of seat everywhere, including storage and an equipment room, which weren’t on tap at Jerry Kindall Field at Frank Sancet Stadium — their on-campus harshly since 1967.
Lopez will have a double-suite offense. The assistants will have offices with windows, in preference to of being crammed in cement boxes in McKale Center. There is a roomy convention room. There will be an academic center.
And there will be plenty of space in the outfield.
The unprecedented plan was to move in the fences at spacious Hi Corbett Field, but there wasn’t enough stretch to implement that change after negotiations with the city and the stadium’s former occupier, the Tucson Toros, went into late November.
Toros P Jay Zucker settled with the city for $300,000, ending his fight over the boot.
The Hi Corbett dimensions are about the same down the lines as Sancet Stadium (which is 360 feet), but the alleys are colossal — 410 in left-center and 405 in right center. The big interest, combined with the bat restrictions imposed by the NCAA last season, is sad news for Arizona’s sluggers but immense news for the pitching staff.
Source: Tucson Citizen