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The 2016 Pecos League Champion Tucson Saguaros are proud to call Kino Stadium their home. Beginning in the 2016 Season the Tucson Saguaros of the Pecos League will be the summer tenant of Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium in Tucson.Here is history of Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium is a baseball stadium in Tucson, Arizona. The Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago White Sox formerly utilized the park for Cactus League games each March and had their minor league complexes on-site. It was also home to the Tucson Sidewinders of the Pacific Coast League for the teams last decade in Tucson, running from the stadiums 1998 opening season to the 2008 season. During that time, it was known as Tucson Electric Park or TEP. The stadium was a temporary home (2011–2013) to the Tucson Padres (formerly the Portland Beavers) of the Pacific Coast League during the teams relocation to El Paso, Texas. It seats 11,500 fans. Concerts are often held at the stadium as well. Tucson Electric Park opened in 1998. Larger and more modern than central Tucsons Hi Corbett Field, it is situated 4 miles south of Hi Corbett, at the intersection of several major thoroughfares including I-10 and SR-86. TEP opened the same year that the Arizona Diamondbacks began operations in Phoenix, and the Tucson Toros moved from Hi Corbett to TEP, renamed themselves the Tucson Sidewinders, and became the Diamondbacks AAA affiliate. Furthermore, the Diamondbacks themselves became a tenant of TEP for spring training, sharing the facility with the Chicago White Sox (who moved from their previous spring training facility in Sarasota, Florida). Across town, the Colorado Rockies continued to hold their spring training at Hi Corbett Field. The Chicago White Sox had an agreement to move to Glendale in a stadium that was completed in the 2009 season. However, the Sox lease on TEP was to last through 2012. In order to leave TEP early, the Sox proposed a youth baseball academy backed by Major League Baseball surrounding TEP. On November 18, 2008 the Pima County Board of Supervisors agreed to the White Soxs revised offer of $5 million, thus allowing the team to move to Glendale in time for the 2009 season. The Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies, spring training occupant of Tucsons Hi Corbett Field, indicated that they would both need Tucson to have 3 teams in order to continue playing there. Tucson was therefore abandoned as a spring training venue, and all Cactus League games now take place in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Diamondbacks and Rockies share the new Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, which opened in 2011 near Scottsdale. See latest pictures of Kino Stadium Here