The Pirate management hopes to generate enough enthusiasm to get citizens behind a proposed baseball-only stadium.

All three owners in the franchise's 15-year history have pushed for a baseball-only stadium with a retractable roof.

As more MLB teams started to move into baseball-only stadiums by the 1990s and 2000s, this became less of a problem.

As for baseball-only stadiums, two intriguing efforts are taking place.

Since baseball-only stadiums were not seen as fiscally viable during that era, this effectively ended Stone's bid.

Since the mid-2000s the A's have been in talks with Oakland and other Northern California cities about building a new baseball-only stadium.

To finance the debt from a baseball-only stadium would take two-thirds of the estimated $129 million in revenue.

Almost immediately, the new ownership group began campaigning with local and state governments to secure public funding for a new baseball-only stadium.

In 1999, the team moved to the downtown CanWest Global Park, a baseball-only stadium.

Like most multi-purpose stadiums, the lower boxes were set further back than comparable seats at baseball-only stadiums.