The Big Chip

Entrance to Pringles Park, Aug-2001.

The seating bowl. Field level here is quite a bit below concourse level.

In right field, a stand of trees; in left field, I-40.

• Location: Ridgecrest Drive off F.E. Wright Drive, Jackson, Tenn.
• Opened: 1998
• Home team: West Tenn Diamond Jaxx, Southern League (1998-present)
• Capacity: 6,000

Chronological Tour: Stop 210

Rating: 4 baseballs

They produce a lot of Pringles potato crisps in an area factory, thus the willingness of the manufacturer to sponsor the park. The West Tenn Diamond Jaxx (what an awful name!) employ a mascot who’s a big can of Pringles.

As for the park itself, you enter and all the seats are below you, in an amphitheater configuration. It fits into the lay of the land, which drops from the top of the hill down to Interstate 40. There is a lower walkway separating the field boxes from the reserved seats, but all services are on the upper level. There is a wheelchair ramp on the right field end (which is also where the entrance is) which provides easier access to and from those lower seats.

My biggest suggestion would be to substitute a simpler and more descriptive name for the team, perhaps the Jackson Jacks. It certainly won’t affect my opinion of the park.