Candlestick Park (San Francisco Giants)

Blanks are shredded bits of the plastic stadium seats mixed with complementary team-colored resin.

Available Sizes:

• Pen Blanks: Minimum 3/4" x 3/4" square
• Bottle Stopper and Ring Blanks: 1-1/2" round
• Full Pen Blocks: 6" x 5" and a minimum of 7/8" thick
• Knife Scale Pair: 2@ 5" x 1-1/2" x 3/8" minimum

All blanks include one Certificate of Authenticity (COA) per blank—a 4" x 6" card stock with foil-embossed seal, protected in a hard-shell plastic sleeve. Full Pen Blocks come with 10 COAs.

Most blanks are cut to order for freshness. Pen Blocks require a 2-3 week turnaround.

Candlestick Park: Giants' Foggy Field of Dreams

Candlestick Park, the bay-blasted beacon of Bay Area baseball, perches on the foggy fringes of San Francisco's southeast shore—a windswept wonderland born of mid-century migration dreams. Envisioned in 1957 to lure the New York Giants westward from the Polo Grounds' chill, groundbreaking pierced the tidal flats on June 20, 1958, dredging bay mud into a $24 million concrete cove by architect John Bolles. It cracked open on April 15, 1960, with the Giants topping the Dodgers 3-1 before 42,253 fans under Willie Mays' magnetic gaze—dubbing "The 'Stick" for its gusty quirks and seismic soul, instantly transplanting Gotham grit to Golden Gate glamour.

Encasing 58,000 diamond diehards in open-air ozone on AstroTurf (swapped to grass in 1976, then back for '90s), Candlestick conjured a pitcher's paradise amid jet-roar interruptions and fog-horn fanfare—dimensions a fly-ball fiend's foe: 335 feet to left, 402 to center, 335 to right with 25-foot walls taming those trademark tempests. Facelifts fogged forth: 1960's initial 23,000 swell, 1970s' upper decks to 58,000 for dual-sport digs with 49ers, 1986's $50 million quake-proof quake (post-'89 Loma Prieta tremor halting World Series Game 3), 1990s' luxury lofts and club seats—blending raw, rattling intimacy with retro charm till Oracle Park's 2000 call, leaving football echoes in its wake.

Sanctuary for the San Francisco Giants across four decades, Candlestick cradled the 1962 pennant pulse, 1989 World Series quake-quake (swept by A's at home), Mays' 660th homer (1973 farewell), Bonds' 73-blast barrage (1999 echoes), and All-Star spectacles in '62, '87, '93 amid 3,000+ home wins and sellout surges. Record roars hit 62,674 for 1993's NLDS, pulsing with "Beat L.A." chants, garlic fry frenzies, and fog-delay dramas. Beyond bases, it hosted Beatles '66, Grateful Dead '89, and papal visits, etching SF's eclectic edge into lore. Demolished in 2015 for a residential ripple, Candlestick endures as a foggy testament to tenacity, tempests, and timeless bay breeze in MLB's maritime marquee.