At the clubhouse, residents can watch games on 17 televisions in the sports bar, play cards in one of two rooms or catch a movie in the 36-seat theater.
Brandon Belt, a first baseman for the San Francisco Giants, says he relished his stint in San Jose in 2010, even though the low rungs of minor-league baseball meant seven-hour bus rides to games and balky clubhouse air-conditioning in the summer.
He was winning games, strutting around the clubhouse and falling into bad habits on the mound as the powerful Yankee offense bailed him out of some poorly pitched outings.