The Oakland Athletics are interested in building a small baseball stadium, partly to increase season ticket sales:

The A's managing general partner is looking for a park so intimate it would make SBC Park or even Fenway Park look almost spacious. It would have about 35,000 seats, Wolff said last week, and that would make it the smallest big-league park.

"Right now our capacity (at McAfee Coliseum, 43,662) is too big, and it makes it too hard to sell season tickets,'' Wolff said. "That's why we have the highest walk-up traffic in major league baseball.''

Even some of the luxury suites would be cozy. Half of them -- 40 of the 80 -- would be 4-to-6-seat mini-suites, club officials say. That would make them more affordable, a necessity for a club that can't begin to attract the level of corporate support the Giants enjoy.

It's not a bad idea. And it seems you could build the park in such a way that if it proves to be too small, it could be expanded.