Angel Stadium

Ground was broken on August 31, 1964 and the ballpark opened on April 19, 1966, at an original construction cost of about $24 million. It was known as Anaheim Stadium from 1966 to 1997, then as Edison International Field of Anaheim from 1998 to 2003 under a naming-rights deal with the utility company; on December 29, 2003 the Angels announced that from then on the stadium would be known as Angel Stadium, in full Angel Stadium of Anaheim, the name it has carried since. A $118 million renovation between the 1997 and 1998 seasons returned the stadium to a baseball-only facility, removing football-era infrastructure and adding outfield bleachers and the "California Spectacular" — geysers and a stream cascading down an artificial rock mountainside with real trees, behind the left-center-field fence — completed in time for the 1998 season. The franchise was founded in 1961 as the Los Angeles Angels, renamed California Angels in 1965 ahead of the move to Anaheim, Anaheim Angels in 1997 following Disney's acquisition of the club, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2005 under owner Arte Moreno, retaining "of Anaheim" to satisfy the team's lease with the city, and reverted to Los Angeles Angels in 2016 while continuing to play at Angel Stadium in Anaheim.