Foothills Stadium, formerly Burns Stadium, is a stadium in Calgary, Alberta. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Calgary Vipers minor league baseball team. It originally opened in 1966, and was refurbished in 2004. It holds 8,000 people. The Olympia Stadium: start and finish lines visible, defining the length of one stadium (in this case 192. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Heart of the new west City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Location. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... The Calgary Vipers are an independent minor league baseball team in the Northern League. ... Minor leagues in the sense intended in this article are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...