“I was so impressed with that spectacular arena (BOK Center),” Kasten said. “But that arena is no more spectacular than this baseball stadium. I am so impressed with it.

“We’re so happy, because we will have a team in a stadium that is as good, if not better, than any other AA stadium in the country.”

The Dodgers have a chance to become wildly popular all over Oklahoma.

Los Angeles announced in two news conferences on Wednesday, one in Oklahoma City and later in Tulsa, that Oklahoma City will be the Dodgers’ new Triple-A affiliate.

No one should diminish some of the high points of affiliations with the Colorado Rockies and Texas Rangers, the parent clubs for Tulsa minor league baseball for nearly 40 years.

But the Rockies and Rangers are not the Dodgers.

There may be some that know little or nothing about the Rockies or Rangers. Yet, you instantly have an image of the Dodgers. Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine. Vin Scully at the microphone. Tommy Lasorda in the dugout. Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale in the rotation.

The Dodgers are baseball royalty.

As such, some of that aura of the Dodgers will live at ONEOK Field.