Ask Marc Amicone for a baseball memory based in downtown Salt Lake City and he will give you more than a few. But the first one that springs to mind — and after all these years and games how could it not — is walking the concourse back when now Smith’s Ballpark was just about halfway completed. The ballpark on 1300 South turned 25 this spring, so it’s hard for Amicone, a baseball lifer in this state, to not think of that day when he saw a dream of the late Larry H. Miller near completion.
Over 25 years later, Amicone sits in a suite, looking out at the still snow-capped mountains as faint cracks of the bat are overheard during a pre-game warmup.