Minute Maid Stadium

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The Minute Maid Park was opened on March 30, 2000 One of the first baseball stadiums ever opened. Houstons minute maid stadium has a train drive when someone hits a home run over the wall!From the upper deck, the field is very well backlit at night. Easy to notice electronic boards display MPH readings along with the pitch type,adding the fan experience. They also sell some of the best lemonade ever! They can hold up to 41,000 people and have 63 luxury suits, and 5,197 club seats. One of the walls are only 315ft tall. The stadium used to be a old train

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