The skybox floors are the best built, appointed, and catered in the minors. There are major league parks that should take notes.

Isotopes Park is one of the most dreaded by pitchers because, on warm nights, the thin air will give the ball lift enough to turn a double into a dinger.

The field was dug in deeper than the previous park to reduce some of the low level wind problems for fans in the seats. That change has actually increased the zone for the ball to take off!

Fun is evident from the hip, retro/modern front facade to the carnival-like main concourse to the 360 view walking path for parents of restless toddlers to the play area with a killer view from the outfield.

Fans voted for the name change from the venerable Albuquerque Dukes of Dodgers days gone by to "Isotopes" because of an episode of the animated television show "The Simpsons" where Homer protests the relocation of his beloved team to...Albuquerque.

When asked why fans in New Mexico have embraced his team so warmly in the Albuquerque Isotopes’ two seasons back in the AAA Pacific Coast League, General Manager John Traub observes that “it all starts with the ownership.  It’s a priority for them to keep the prices affordable and for us to have a staff that is second to none in all of baseball.  We really try to relate to the fan. 

“It’s just so refreshing that our fans still get excited when they came to one of our games.”

This season, the Isotopes will be combining the traditional with the wacky. 

The traditional, in a town where some residents can trace their families back more than 700 years to the days of the Spanish Conquistadors, means bringing back the live organist, in response to feedback from fans.