Chronological Tour: Stop 283

Memorial Stadium

The press box structure of Everett Memorial Stadium, Aug-2004.

The seating bowl, from the first-base bleachers.

On a cloudy night, the distant mountains are barely visible.

• Location: Broadway at 39 Street, Everett, Wash. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 1984 (for pro baseball) (renovated 1998)
• Additional names: Funko Field (2019)
• Home team: Everett Giants (1984-94), AquaSox (1995-present), Northwest League
• Capacity: 3,682

Rating: 3 baseballs

It’s essentially an aluminum park, with a permanent press box behind home plate that limits the number of seats in the plate area. Yet I found this to be one of the friendliest facilities I visited on the trip. And my hat is off to the public address announcer, who was not only efficient and effective but entertaining. During on-field contests, he made continual reference to old game shows, calling the on-field coordinator “Allen Ludden” and, at one point, telling the audience that promotional consideration had been provided by “Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills” – a furrier who was a prominent sponsor on The Hollywood Squares in the 1970s.

For the 2019 season, the club entered into a marketing agreement with Funko, a toy manufacturer founded in Everett, to put the company name on the field at Memorial Stadium and to do promotional tie-ins. Funko primarily manufactures figurines, including bobbleheads, featuring licensed pop culture characters.