Le Stade de Québec

Exterior of le Stade de Québec, from a nearby pedestrian walkway, Jul-2001.

The seating bowl and press box.

That’s a chicken on the scoreboard, posting zeroes for the visiting team.

• Location: Victoria Park off Autoroute 73, Québec, P.Q.
• Opened: 1938
• Home team: Québec Athletics, Québec Provincial League (1940), Canadian-American League (1941-42); Québec Alouettes, Canadian-American League (1946-48); Québec Braves, Canadian-American League (1949-50), Provincial League (1951-55); Québec Carnavals (1971-75), Metros (1976-77), Eastern League; Les Capitales de Québec, Northern League (1999-2002), Northeast League (2003-04), Can-Am League (2005-present)
• Capacity: 4,800

Rating: 3 baseballs

The building has dual indoor concourses, one to the reserved seating and one to the general admission area which is achieved through portals on each side of the main lobby. I’m sure the wooden seats in the general admission area and the reserved seats behind the plate are original.

And then there’s the manual scoreboard, complete with chicken. Some have called it a goose, because it posts the goose eggs for the visiting team, but it’s definitely a chicken and it, or the public address system, makes chicken noises. Seems that in French, zeroes are chicken eggs, oeufs (the French l’oeuf, the egg, gave us the tennis term “love” meaning a zero score).