SkyDome's   Postcards
Toronto,  Canada

    Construction on SkyDome started in April 1986, and the Blue Jays played their first game there three years later.   In addition to baseball, SkyDome hosts the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts, concerts, and other sporting events.
   The capacity is 50,516 (baseball) or 53,000 (football) and conversion from baseball to football takes only 10-12 hours, because the movable lower stands are on rollers, and the Astroturf field rolls up.

   Opening or closing the roof takes only 20 minutes.   Opening the roof requires that two panels slide over each other and into a section behind center field.  A third panel, which starts behind the plate, rotates on a circular rail.   The roof was closed during a game twice in the Blue Jays' first year in the dome, and four or five times a year since then.

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