Editing Candlestick Park (section)

==Croix de Candlestick==
[[Image:Croix de Candlestick.JPG|100px|thumb|right|VENI • VIDI • VIXI: "I came, I saw, I survived."]]

The Croix de Candlestick is an [[award pin]] that was given out to [[baseball]] [[Fan (person)|fans]] as they exited Candlestick Park at the conclusion of a night game that went extra [[inning]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://goingdowntown.mlblogs.com/tag/croix-de-candlestick/|title=Croix de Candlestick|website=Welcome to Third and King|date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/experts/|title=Yahoo Sports MLB|website=sports.yahoo.com}}</ref> In reference to the ballpark's legendarily cold winds, the pin carried the motto, "[[Veni, vidi, vici|Veni, Vidi, Vixi]]" ("I came, I saw, I survived").<ref>[[Chris Ballard (journalist)|Chris Ballard]], [https://www.si.com/vault/2013/12/30/106414228/candlestick-19602013 "Candlestick Park, 1960−2013"], ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', December 30, 2013.</ref>

In order to receive a pin, the fans would have to redeem their [[ticket stub]] for the pin at Patrick & Co. Stationery store in San Francisco.  The pin, developed by team marketing director [[Patrick J. Gallagher]], was first issued in 1983.  In 1983 the [[San Francisco Giants]] played in five extra inning night games,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/1983-schedule-scores.shtml|title=1983 San Francisco Giants Schedule|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> with a total attendance of 70,933 and in 1984 they played in five extra inning night games<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/1984-schedule-scores.shtml|title=1984 San Francisco Giants Schedule|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref> with a total attendance of 44,031. The pin was given out for several years. On September 28–30, 1999, tens of thousands of fans received the pin for attending the Giants' final three-game home stand at Candlestick, against the team's archrival, the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]].<ref>David Steele, [https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/The-Last-Night-Resembled-Very-Few-Others-3273078.php "The Last Night Resembled Very Few Others"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', September 30, 1999.</ref><ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-28-sp-15065-story.html "Candle In The Wind"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', September 28, 1999.</ref>  A ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' columnist later called it "the smartest marketing promotional in Bay Area history".<ref>{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Hartlaub |url=https://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2010/08/18/the-badges-of-honor-of-a-bay-area-resident/ |title=The badges of honor of a Bay Area resident |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=August 18, 2010}}</ref>