Desert Sun Stadium is a converted soccer-specific stadium in

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, originally built for

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. It was the spring training home of the

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from 1970 through 1993, the North American League's

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baseball team, the

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, and the

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. The stadium serves as the main field of the Ray Kroc Baseball Complex. The stadium was built for the 1970 spring training season using a 2% hospitality tax and $100,000 in bonds. The Padres started training in Yuma in 1969 but trained at

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, on 24th Street, while the new ballpark was being built. The first game was March 6, 1970, with Arizona Governor Jack Williams throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. The stadium was expanded again in 1984. In 2015, Desert Sun Stadium was converted to a soccer stadium by OneGoal LLC, an organization that paid for the $15,000 conversion fee.

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had played at Desert Sun Stadium from 2015 to 2017.

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occasionally makes a stop at the complex.

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