Candlestick Park opens for baseball. A crowd of 42,269 watches Sam Jones throw a complete-game three-hitter as the Giants beat the Cardinals 3-1. Orlando Cepeda drives in all three runs. The ...

Yes, Candlestick grew more inefficient by the year. It committed the modern sin of poor Wi-Fi. Its luxury boxes displeased the league, and the owners. But that's not why fans love a ballpark.

Original Candlestick Park seats are a fixture in the back of Topper bar.

Some seats from Candlestick park were sold last summer -- $749 for a pair. Money raised through the sales benefited San Francisco Recreation and Park's Scholarship Fund.

Had the 49ers renewed their lease at Candlestick Park, they would have been liable for five more years of rent, approximately $6 million per year. The team projects its new stadium will be open ...

On this day, Candlestick Park officially opened for NFL football as the 49ers hosted the Los Angeles Rams in front of 44,000 spectators.

Terry Francona's memories of San Francisco are skewed by miserable conditions at old Candlestick Park.

Home in the Horseshoe. Since Candlestick Park is on a peninsular sort of culdesac, many a San Franciscan feared a traffic jam to end all traffic jams. But on opening day there was not much cause ...

The Beatles, otherwise known as The Fab Four, came together for their final live paid performance on August 29, 1966, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on this day in history.

On this day in The Bay, quarterback Joe Montana lit up Candlestick Park, completing 29-of-44 passes for 390 yards in the 49ers 26-13 victory over Washington. Receiver John Taylor hauled in eight ...

For instance, Murphy, 68, recalled playing in old Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the stadium where he had watched Mays play for the Giants as a boy when his family lived for a brief time in ...