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| dimensions = '''Left field'''<br />330 ft (1960), 335 ft<br />'''Left-center field &<br />Right-center field'''<br />397 ft (1960), 365 ft<ref name=cpdimcut>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zQJYAAAAIBAJ&pg=4146%2C3846369 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Washington|agency=Associated Press |title=Candlestick Park dimensions cut |date=December 15, 1960 |page=45}}</ref><br />'''Center field'''<br />420 ft (1960), 400 ft<br />'''Right field'''<br />330 ft (1960), 328 ft<br />'''Backstop'''<br />73 ft (1960), 66 ft [[File:CandlestickParkDimensions.svg|200px]]
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'''Candlestick Park''' was an outdoor [[stadium]] on the [[West Coast of the United States]], located in [[San Francisco|San Francisco's]] [[Bayview-Hunters Point|Hunters Point]] area. The stadium was originally the home of [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[San Francisco Giants]], who played there from [[1960 San Francisco Giants season|1960]] until [[1999 San Francisco Giants season|1999]], after which the Giants moved into Pacific Bell Park (since renamed [[Oracle Park]]) in [[2000 San Francisco Giants season|2000]]. It was also the home field of the [[San Francisco 49ers]] of the [[National Football League]] from [[1971 San Francisco 49ers season|1971]] through [[2013 San Francisco 49ers season|2013]]. The 49ers moved to [[Levi's Stadium]] in [[Santa Clara, California|Santa Clara]] for the [[2014 San Francisco 49ers season|2014 season]]. The last event held at Candlestick was a concert by [[Paul McCartney]] in August 2014, and the demolition of the stadium was completed in September 2015. As of 2019, the site is planned to be redeveloped into office space.<ref>{{Cite
The stadium was situated at [[Candlestick Point]] on the western shore of [[San Francisco Bay]]. Candlestick Point was named for the "[[Long-billed curlew|candlestick birds]]" (long-billed curlews) that populated the area for many years. Due to Candlestick Park's location next to the bay, strong winds often swirled down into the stadium, creating unusual playing conditions. At the time of its construction in the late 1950s, the stadium site was one of the few pieces of land available in the city that was suitable for a sports stadium, and had room for the 10,000 parking spaces that had been promised to the Giants.
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When the [[History of the New York Giants (NL)|New York Giants]] arrived in San Francisco in 1958, they played their home games at the old [[Seals Stadium]] at 16th and Bryant Streets. As part of the agreement regarding the Giants' relocation to the West Coast, the city of San Francisco promised to build a new stadium for the team. Most of the land at Candlestick Point was purchased from Charles Harney, a local contractor. Harney purchased the land in 1952 for a quarry and industrial development. He made a profit of over $2 million when he sold the land for the stadium. Harney received a no-bid contract to build the stadium. The entire deal was the subject of a grand jury investigation in 1958.
Ground was broken in {{baseball year|1958}} for the stadium and the Giants selected the name of '''Candlestick Park''', after a name-the-park contest on March 3, 1959 (for the derivation of which, see below). Prior to the choice of the name, its construction site had been shown on maps as the generic '''''Bay View Stadium'''''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pot Luck|newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]]|date=March 4, 1959|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KdMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5404,2134654&dq=phillies&hl=en|page=3-C}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It was the first modern baseball stadium, as it was the first to be built entirely of [[reinforced concrete]].<ref name="Storied">{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Curt|author-link=Curt Smith (author)|title=Storied Stadiums|url=https://archive.org/details/storiedstadiumsb00curt|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=Carroll & Graf|location=New York City|isbn=0-7867-1187-6}}</ref> Then-[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]] threw out the [[ceremonial first pitch]] on the opening day of Candlestick Park on April 12, 1960, and the [[Oakland Raiders]] played the final three games of the 1960 season<ref>{{cite news |title=Raiders Face L.A. In 'Must' Game At Candlestick Park |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=December 4, 1960 |page=57 }}</ref> and their entire [[List of American Football League seasons#1961 .5B2.5D|1961]] [[American Football League]] season at Candlestick Park. With only 77 home runs hit in 1960 (46 by Giants, 31 by visitors), the fences were moved in, from left-center to right-center, for the [[1961 San Francisco Giants season|1961 season]].<ref name=cpdimcut/>
Following the [[1970 San Francisco Giants season|1970 season]], the first with [[AstroTurf]], Candlestick Park was enclosed, with grandstands around the outfield. This was in preparation for the 49ers in [[1971 San Francisco 49ers season|1971]], who were moving from their long-time home of [[Kezar Stadium]]. The result was that the wind speed dropped marginally, but often swirled irregularly throughout the stadium, and the view of [[San Francisco Bay]] was lost.
[[File:Candlestick Postcard - 01.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Candlestick as seen shortly after it was built in its original open grandstand configuration before being enclosed]]
Candlestick Park played host to two [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game]]s in its life as home for the Giants. The stadium hosted the [[1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)|first of two games in 1961]] and later hosted the [[1984 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1984 All-Star Game]]. The Giants played a total of six postseason series at Candlestick Park; they played host to the [[NLCS]] in [[1971 National League Championship Series|1971]], [[1987 National League Championship Series|1987]], and [[1989 National League Championship Series|1989]], the [[World Series]] in [[1962 World Series|1962]] and [[1989 World Series|1989]], and one [[1997 National League Division Series|NLDS]] in 1997.
The 49ers hosted eight [[NFC Championship Game|NFC Championship games]] during their time at Candlestick Park. The first was in January 1982 when [[Dwight Clark]] caught a game-winning touchdown pass from [[Joe Montana]] to lead the [[1981 San Francisco 49ers season|49ers]] to
In addition to Clark's famous touchdown catch, two more plays referred to as "The Catch" took place during games at Candlestick Park. The play dubbed "The Catch II" came in the [[1998–99 NFL playoffs#Wild Card playoffs|1998 NFC Wild Card round]], as [[Steve Young]] found [[Terrell Owens]] for a touchdown with eight seconds left to defeat the two-time defending NFC Champion [[1998 Green Bay Packers season|Packers]]. The play called "The Catch III" came in the [[2011–12 NFL playoffs#Divisional playoffs|2011 NFC Divisional Playoffs]], when [[Alex Smith]] threw a touchdown pass to [[Vernon Davis]] with nine seconds remaining to provide the winning margin against the [[2011 New Orleans Saints season|New Orleans Saints]].
On October 17, 1989, the [[Loma Prieta earthquake]] (magnitude 6.9) struck San Francisco, minutes before Game 3 of the [[1989 World Series|World Series]] was to begin at Candlestick Park. No one within the stadium was injured, although minor structural damage was incurred to the stadium. [[Al Michaels]] and [[Tim McCarver]], who called the game for [[Major League Baseball on ABC|ABC]], later credited the stadium's design for saving thousands of lives.<ref name="Storied"/> An ESPN documentary about the earthquake revealed that the local stadium authority demanded that Candlestick Park undertake a major engineering project to shore up perceived safety red flags in the stadium. The authority pushed reluctant officials to get this done between the 1988 and 1989 baseball seasons, which prevented a "collapse wave" that could have killed thousands of fans and led to there being very few casualties of any kind in Candlestick Park after such a massive natural disaster. The World Series between the Giants and their Bay rivals the [[1989 Oakland Athletics season|Oakland
The NFL awarded [[Super Bowl XXXIII]] to Candlestick Park on November 2, 1994.<ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OowyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=B-cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2467,966185&dq=super-bowl+site&hl=en Lawrence Journal-World - Google News Archive Search</ref> After planned renovations in preparation for the game were not made, the NFL owners instead awarded Super Bowl XXXIII to the Miami area during their meeting on October 31, 1996. The league promised to award [[Super Bowl XXXVII]] following construction of a new football stadium, which was approved by voters in 1997, but the forced sale of the team by owner [[Eddie DeBartolo Jr.]] caused plans to fall through.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stimson |first=Alex |date=May 23, 2023 |title=San Francisco was twice set to host the Super Bowl. Here's why it never happened. |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/23/looking-back-at-super-bowls-lost-by-san-francisco-as-nfl-return-to-bay-area/ |work=The Mercury News |url-access=limited |accessdate=June 2, 2023}}</ref>
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[[File:Candlestick Park - 7-24-1971.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Candlestick Park upper deck expansion in progress during 1971 baseball season. Note the [[artificial turf]] then in use, along with the pre-49ers football scoreboard used during the annual [[East-West Shrine Game]].]]
In {{baseball year|2000}}, the Giants moved to the new Pacific Bell Park (now called [[Oracle Park]]) in the China Basin neighborhood, leaving the 49ers as the sole professional sports team to use Candlestick Park. The final baseball game was played on September 30, 1999, against their [[Dodgers–Giants rivalry|long-time rivals]], the [[1999 Los Angeles Dodgers season|Los Angeles Dodgers]], who won 9–4. In that game, all nine Dodgers starters had at least one base hit, while the stadium's final home run came from Dodgers' right fielder [[Raúl Mondesí]] in the 6th inning. The National League rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers, one of the oldest and most hotly contested in the Major Leagues, dated back to when both teams were based in New York City. When first the Dodgers, then the Giants, moved to California in 1958, the rivalry continued unabated.
For its last several years as home to just the 49ers, Candlestick Park was the only remaining NFL stadium to have begun as a baseball-only facility which later underwent an extensive redesign to accommodate football. That was evidenced by the stadium's curiously oblong and irregular shape, whereby views from a sizable section of lower-deck seating in the baseball configuration's right-field corner were so badly obstructed by the eastern grandstand of the football seating configuration that they were unusable for football games and would consequently sit empty. Since a football gridiron, including its end zones and benches along the sidelines, is much smaller than a baseball playing field and foul territory, this large grandstand, which provided thousands of prime seats along one whole sideline of the football field, was designed to be retractable. It would slide backwards for baseball games, under the upper deck, and provide a smaller section of baseball seating beyond the outfield wall in right. After the Giants played their 1999 season and moved away from Candlestick, this grandstand was left permanently in its football position, and the unusable seats were eventually removed.
On September 3, 2011, Candlestick Park hosted the first and only college football game in its history with a neutral site game between the [[California Golden Bears]] and [[Fresno State Bulldogs]] (Cal was designated the "home" team).<ref>{{cite web |url=
At approximately 5:19 p.m. local time on December 19, 2011, Candlestick Park experienced an unexpected power outage just before a ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' game between the 49ers and the [[2011 Pittsburgh Steelers season|Pittsburgh Steelers]]. An aerial shot shown live on [[ESPN]] showed a transformer sparking and then the stadium going completely dark. About 17 minutes later, however, the park's lights came back on in time for the game's kickoff. With 12:13 remaining in the second quarter, another power outage created yet another 30-minute delay before play resumed again. The [[2011 San Francisco 49ers season|49ers 2011 season]] ended at Candlestick Park with a loss to the [[2011 New York Giants season|New York Giants]] in the NFC Championship Game.
The 49ers played their final game at Candlestick Park on Monday, December 23, 2013, against the [[2013 Atlanta Falcons season|Atlanta Falcons]], winning 34–24 after a [[NaVorro Bowman]] interception that would be called '''The Pick at the Stick''' by some sports columnists.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/instant-replay-49ers-survive-punch-playoff-ticket-stick-finale |title=Instant Replay: 49ers survive, punch playoff ticket in 'Stick finale |first=Matt |last=Maiocco |website=CSN Bay Area |date=December 23, 2013 |access-date=September 9, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923212400/http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/instant-replay-49ers-survive-punch-playoff-ticket-stick-finale |archive-date=September 23, 2015 }}</ref> This game was the facility's 36th and final game on ''Monday Night Football'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201312230sfo.htm |title=Atlanta Falcons at San Francisco 49ers - December 23rd, 2013 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=September 9, 2016}}</ref> the most at any stadium used by the NFL.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2013/12/24/5240834/niners-vs-falcons-candlestick-park-mnf-history |title=49ers vs. Falcons provides final classic Monday Night Football moment at Candlestick Park |first=Matthew |last=Fairburn |website=SBNation.com |date=December 24, 2013 |access-date=September 9, 2016}}</ref>
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===In popular culture===
Candlestick Park was home to dozens of commercial shoots as well as the location for the climactic scene in both the 1962 thriller ''[[Experiment in Terror]]'' and the 1974 [[Richard Rush]] comedy ''[[Freebie and the Bean]]''. The stadium was featured in the 1976 ''Dirty Harry'' movie, ''[[The Enforcer (1976 film)|The Enforcer]]''. The stadium was featured in the 1994 family comedy ''[[Getting Even with Dad]]'', where the father character (played by [[Ted Danson]]) takes his son (played by [[Macaulay Culkin]]) to a San Francisco Giants game. The stadium was featured briefly in the 1996 action film ''[[The Rock (film)|The Rock]]'' where a missile almost attacks the place before being
==Seating capacity==
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With the departure of the 49ers, Candlestick Park was left without any permanent tenants. Demolition was expected to occur soon after the 49ers played their final game of the 2013 season, but over time the date of demolition was moved back to late 2014, with several special events planned for the intervening period.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shafer|first=Margie|date=December 18, 2013|title=Special Events Planned At Candlestick Park Before Demolition|url=http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/12/18/special-events-planned-at-candlestick-park-before-demolition/|website=San Francisco CBS local |access-date=January 5, 2014}}</ref> In April 2014, [[Paul McCartney]] announced that he would perform a concert as the last scheduled event in the 54-year-old stadium on August 14, 2014.<ref name = "Macca">{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Paul-McCartney-to-play-at-Candlestick-5426723.php |title=Paul McCartney to play Candlestick's final show |last1=Matier |first1=Phillip |last2=Ross |first2=Andrew |date=April 24, 2014 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=April 28, 2014}}</ref> [[The Beatles]] had performed their last scheduled concert at Candlestick Park 48 years earlier.
[[File:Candlestick Park in May 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Candlestick Park under demolition, May 2015.]]
Demolition began in November 2014 as workers tore out seats.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Candlestick-teardown-begins-seats-being-5899250.php |title=Candlestick teardown begins — seats being ripped out |last1=Matier |first1=Phillip |last2=Ross |first2=Andrew |date=November 18, 2014 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=March 18, 2015}}</ref> In January 2015, the developer withdrew a request to implode the stadium, possibly to be broadcast as part of the Super Bowl halftime entertainment. Instead, mechanized structural demolition commenced, which was favored over implosion due to local dust pollution concerns.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Candlestick-Park-will-go-out-with-a-wrecking-6019420.php |title=Candlestick Park will go out with a wrecking ball, not a bang |last1=Matier |first1=Phillip |last2=Ross |first2=Andrew |date=January 16, 2015 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=March 18, 2015 }}</ref> Demolition was expected to be complete by March 2015,<ref>{{cite news |title=Demolition of Candlestick Park Underway; New Development to Replace Old Stadium |url=http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Demolition-of-Candlestick-Park-Underway-New-Development-Replacing-Stadium-290783791.html |last=Fernandez |first=Lisa |date=February 4, 2015 |website=NBC Bay Area |access-date=March 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Candlestick-Park-disappearing-piece-by-piece-6062980.php |title=Last team at Candlestick Park is bent on demolition |last=Rubenstein |first=Steve |date=February 5, 2015 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=March 18, 2015 }}</ref> but was not completed until September 24, 2015.
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In December 2016, 4,000 additional historic Candlestick seats were acquired and installed at Kezar. The seats were paid for by the [[San Francisco Deltas]] as a part of a $1-million improvement the team agreed upon to make use of the stadium.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.sfgate.com/soccer/2016/12/02/candlestick-seats-will-soon-fill-sfs-kezar-stadium-thanks-to-san-francisco-deltas-soccer-team-49ers-nasl/|title=Candlestick seats will soon fill SF's Kezar Stadium, thanks to Deltas soccer team|date=December 2, 2016}}</ref>
[[File:Empty Candlestick Park lot in January 2018 (5885).jpg|thumb|Former site of Candlestick Park, January 2018.]]
In November 2014, [[Lennar]] and [[Macerich]] announced plans to build a dense "urban outlet" center incorporating retail and housing with underground parking on the Candlestick Park site. The proponents suggested that the new development would be completed in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Major-urban-outlet-retail-center-planned-for-5897403.php |title=Major 'urban outlet' retail center planned for Candlestick Point |last=Dineen |first=J. K. | work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=November 17, 2014}}</ref> The project has not proceeded, and the plan was suspended by its proponents in April 2018.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/04/06/exclusive-fivepoint-suspends-work-on-635-000.html |title=Exclusive: FivePoint suspends work on 635,000-square-foot shopping mall at the former Candlestick Park |first1=Roland |last1=Li |first2=Katie |last2=Burke |work=[[American City Business Journals]] |date=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
==Croix de Candlestick==
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The Croix de Candlestick is an [[award pin]] that was given out to [[baseball]] [[Fan (person)|fans]] as they exited Candlestick Park at the conclusion of a night game that went extra [[inning]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://goingdowntown.mlblogs.com/tag/croix-de-candlestick/|title=Croix de Candlestick|website=Welcome to Third and King|date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/experts/|title=Yahoo Sports MLB|website=sports.yahoo.com}}</ref> In reference to the ballpark's legendarily cold winds, the pin carried the motto, "[[Veni, vidi, vici|Veni, Vidi, Vixi]]" ("I came, I saw, I survived").<ref>[[Chris Ballard (journalist)|Chris Ballard]], [https://www.si.com/vault/2013/12/30/106414228/candlestick-19602013 "Candlestick Park, 1960−2013"], ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', December 30, 2013.</ref>
In order to receive a pin, the fans would have to redeem their [[ticket stub]] for the pin at Patrick & Co. Stationery store in San Francisco. The pin, developed by team marketing director [[Patrick J. Gallagher]], was first issued in 1983. In 1983 the [[San Francisco Giants]] played in five extra inning night games,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/1983-schedule-scores.shtml|title=1983 San Francisco Giants Schedule|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> with a total attendance of 70,933 and in 1984 they played in five extra inning night games<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/1984-schedule-scores.shtml|title=1984 San Francisco Giants Schedule|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> with a total attendance of 44,031. The pin was given out for several years. On September 28–30, 1999, tens of thousands of fans received the pin for attending the Giants' final three-game home stand at Candlestick, against the team's archrival, the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]].<ref>David Steele, [https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/The-Last-Night-Resembled-Very-Few-Others-3273078.php "The Last Night Resembled Very Few Others"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', September 30, 1999.</ref><ref>[
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