Yes, there's going to be a swimming pool in the outfield and such diversified options at the concession stands that Ralph Nelson considers the hiring of the right stadium food and beverage supervisor to be critical.

And, no, if you're thinking this is going to be the Huntsville Stars and Joe Davis Stadium 2.0, you're going to be more wrong than saying the sky is green.

And then there's the Jimmy Buffett aspect, whose chain of Margaritaville hotels will have a location that will be integrated with the stadium. And if Buffett wanted to come to the stadium and sing some songs, well, "I don't think that's a long shot," Nelson said. "I'll leave that at that."

Nelson is the managing general partner of BallCorps Inc., which purchased the Mobile BayBears earlier this year and will move the team to Madison in 2020. He described himself Thursday as an "administrator" after working as an executive in Major League Baseball for 25 years.

But as he wrapped up a media blitz promoting Saturday's community event groundbreaking of the $46 million stadium, Nelson apparently could adequately wear the hat of "salesman," too.

Ralph Nelson

"The business has changed so significantly since the Stars were here," Nelson said during an interview with AL.com. "Somebody just asked me in another interview, there is so much positivity, is there anything you incur that's negative?

"The only negative is if you use the Huntsville Stars or Joe Davis as your reference point, you're going to be shocked by what we're doing."

The Stars, of course, played in Huntsville's Joe Davis Stadium from 1985-2014. What began as a popular attraction ended with sparse crowds and a city that had lost interest in going to an antiquated, bare-bones stadium.

The new Madison stadium - designed by renowned stadium architects Populous - will be both smaller and bigger than Joe Davis and will be an anchor of Town Madison, a sprawling mixed-use community under construction along I-565.

On the smaller side, it will have less than half the number of fixed seats - only 4,000 - than Joe Davis' 10,000. On the bigger side, it will have so many amenities that if you leave a game without knowing who won, Nelson will consider your experience a success.

For example, if you're floating in the lazy river between the stadium and Margaritaville hotel next door, do you really care who scored the most runs in the game?

"My favorite stat that will probably become really famous around here is that a couple of years ago, they did a survey of minor league baseball fans leaving ballparks all over the country," Nelson said. "They found that an astounding 80 percent of minor league baseball fans leaving a ballpark did not know who won or lost the game.

"The reason is because minor league baseball is about the fan experience. So food and beverage is critical to that."

While there will just 4,000 traditional stadium fixed seats, the facility's capacity will be about 7,000 people for a game.

"It's in a social setting - whether it's the berm, the party decks, the picnic area, the rock porch bar, the suites, the club upstairs," Nelson said. "These are all various areas where 20, 50, 150 people are together and enjoying the game together with food and beverage and everything that goes with it. It's a different business than what people around here remember.

"It's become a social event. The game's changed. The business has changed."

Compare that description with your memories of attending Stars game at Joe Davis Stadium.

"We studied the Stars," Nelson said. "We know why they were so successful early and why they were so unsuccessful late. One of the first thing is the owners, they were all locals. They all lived here and were part of the community. Miles Prentice (the Stars last owner) didn't do that. I told (Madison Mayor) Paul Finley, first meeting, if we make this deal happen, I'm going to move my family here (from Vermont) and become part of the community. And I have."

The dreadful finish the Stars had in Huntsville - when it was routine for fewer than 1,000 people at the games - is not an indictment on the market, Nelson said.

"I believed very early after we began the process of purchasing the Mobile team that this is the best market in the country that did not have a minor league team when we started this," Nelson said. "Without question. And we all know about the population, the growth, the demographics. But I truly believe that.

"So why wasn't minor league baseball successful in 2014? There were reasons. There was a ballpark that had deteriorated. There was no money put by the team into the facility. The owner was absentee. There was not a lot of capital. Those guys were working their tail off and didn't have capital to do it with or the staff to do it with. We're going to have 23-24 full-time employees plus hundreds on game day."

As part of a commitment to embed himself into the community, Nelson's organization, BallCorps Inc., is also planning to start a charitable foundation that will donate equipment to youth sports organizations across north Alabama.

And Saturday's groundbreaking will be different, too. It's scheduled to begin about 5 at Zierdt Road and I-565. And details will be announced about participating in the name-the-team contest.

"We're having a groundbreaking ceremony that isn't going to be for politicians with gold shovels and move on to lunch," Nelson said. "This is going to be a community celebration. There are going to be things for the children to do. There's going to be bouncy houses, there's going to be face painting. There's going to be music. There's going to be free food for everybody. There's going to be a gift that everybody will want to get to put on their bookshelf to say, 'I was there.'

"We're not going to do anything in a vacuum. We're going to be part of the community. That's probably our No. 1 philosophy."