Technically, Toyota Field is in Madison, Alabama but the team takes its name from nearby Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which was opened in 1960 under the direction of German rocket scientist Werner von Braun. Pictured is a display from the U.S. Space & Rocket Center museum, which I highly recommend for a visit – especially with the closing of the Fiero Factory.
As you might have guessed from its location in an exurb of Huntsville, the ballpark is located outside a development in the middle of a massive parking lot.
The team is not the renamed Huntsville Stars, which moved to Biloxi in 2015, but the relocated Mobile BayBears.
Like the FredNats, the new ballpark was slated to open in 2020 but was delayed by—wait for it—the pandemic.
Unlike the FredNats, the team held a name-the-team contest and stuck with the winner.
Not to take away from the ballpark, but aside from the toyetic team name, it’s like a Toyota Camry. Fine, but looks like a Honda Accord… or a Hyundai Elantra… or a Kia Optima… or a Nissan Sentra…