Hu’s on First?

The home-plate entrance at CanWest Global Park, Aug-2005.

A look at the seating bowl.

The park faces the Red River.

Chronological Tour: Stop 297

• Location: Waterfront Drive at Pioneer Avenue, Winnipeg, Man. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 1999 as CanWest Global Park
• Additional names: Shaw Park (2011), Blue Cross Park (2024)
• Home team: Winnipeg Goldeyes, Northern League (1999-2010), American Association (2011-present)
• Capacity: 7,500 (approx.)

Rating: 4 baseballs

Fans walk up stairwells flanking home plate to reach the main concourse, which contains a single seating bowl. Luxury boxes and the press box shelter the back few rows.

The park contains the best variety of food concessions I have ever seen in a minor or independent league park. Almost as many different cuisines are represented as are ethnicities in the cosmopolitan city that hosts the park. One notable feature when the park opened was the right-field Chinese bistro (as they styled it) called “Hu’s on First”. The space is still there, but as of 2019 it was occupied by an Indian restaurant.