• ballparks,  California

    My night with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes – April 9, 2013

    It’s spring time, which means two things in my life: the start of baseball season and the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. This year I got to combine the two for my trip to Los Angeles, Calif. After booking my flight to arrive the day before the conference so I could visit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, I decided to attend a Rancho Cucamonga Quakes game. Three recreational softball fields flank LoanMart Field, which had been The Epicenter until just a few days before the Quakes’ season opener.  With the stadium changing names just before the start of the season there was not a lot of signage with the…