Riders Field is a baseball park in Frisco, Texas, United States. The
home of the Frisco RoughRiders, a Double-A team of the Texas League, it
opened on April 3, 2003, and can seat 10,216 people. Primarily a venue
for Minor League Baseball games, the facility also hosts high school and
college baseball tournaments and other public and private events. It has
been the site of three Texas League All-Star Games. In his design, park
architect David M. Schwarz desired the creation of a village-like "park
within a (ball)park". The stadium received the 2003 Texas Construction
award for Best Architectural Design. Attendance for RoughRiders games at
the stadium has consistently placed first or second in the Texas League
and at the Double-A classification since its opening. After having the
second-highest attendance in its first two seasons, it had the highest
in the league and classification from 2005 to 2019.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_Field>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1721:
Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury,
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming
the first de facto prime minister of Great Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole>
1933:
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton and David McIntyre undertook the first
successful flight over Mount Everest.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%E2%80%93Mount_Everest_flight_expedition>
1948:
Division of Korea: A communist uprising began on Jeju Island,
eventually leading to thousands of deaths and atrocities committed by
both sides.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising>
2010:
Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet
computer.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_%281st_generation%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nutty slack:
(Britain, historical) A cheap fuel consisting of slack (“coal dust”) and
nuts (“small lumps of coal”); unlike other solid fuel it was not
rationed during the period after World War II.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nutty_slack>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.
--George Herbert
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Herbert>
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