A fan stands on the edge of the shadows in the afternoon sun. “We wanted to be unique,” Express sales rep Scott McLeod says, “different not only from other baseball stadiums in the league, but [from other sports facilities] in the area as well. Round Rock is constantly lumped in as a suburb of Austin, and this is a way of standing apart. I think the people in this town want to be recognized as their own community, not a section of another one.”
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