IN THE CLEANUP SPOT

Corporate suites for $165,000? Nice touch.

A rock mountain and pyrotechnics? Good items.

But fans getting their a sneak peak at the ballpark being refurbished for the Anaheim Angels had questions of their own Saturday:

“What about baked potatoes?” asked 12-year-old Heidi Mugar of Anaheim.

As an army of Disney-trained tour guides and Anaheim Angels officials escorted group after group of fans through the renovation work at the park, fans were interested in knowing what won’t change as much as they wanted to hear what will change.

“We’re still going to have the baked potatoes,” Kevin Uhlich, director of operations for the Angels, told Heidi, whose parents are longtime season-ticket holders. “And cinnamon buns. We’re bringing back cinnamon buns.”

But things have changed at the old Big A, even the name. From now on, the Angels will be playing at Edison International Field of Anaheim.

And the transformation has been drastic. Workers peeled off old walls and hoisted new ones. They chiseled through the stadium floors to create an entirely new lower level. They added structures and expanded or moved old ones.

“When we went down to the core of the building, we were left with a carbon copy of Camden Yards in Baltimore,” said Uhlich, referring to the newly refurbished baseball stadium. Uhlich was leading one of the daylong procession of tours scheduled Saturday and today.

And from there, the Walt Disney Co., which took over the team in 1996, undertook a $100-million renovation to make the city-owned stadium more open, intimate and appealing. Disney is paying for $70 million of the work. Most of the rest is being contributed by the city of Anaheim.

About 11,000 fans ignored the threat of rain and the sometimes muddy grounds Saturday to get a first look at the park, meet coaches and players and sample the hot dogs, popcorn and new games such as pitching and batting cages that will be featured at the park.

Fans expecting a postcard-perfect experience may have been disappointed; there is still a lot of work to do. There’s no grass, the base lines are swimming in water because of recent rains, many seats have yet to be installed, and the giant scoreboard is still a tangle of steel and wires awaiting the electronic facing and an “on” switch. Grass will be installed beginning this week, and most of the work will be completed in time for the opening of the exhibition season March 27.

“It’s not as finished as we thought it would be, but it’s basically there,” said James Albers, a Chino Hills businessman who toured the park with wife Roxanne. “It looks to me like they’ve taken some of the better elements of parks around the country and put together sort of a composite here.”

The Alberses were among hundreds of people who greeted Angels Manager Terry Collins after their tour and got autographs. Collins enthusiastically shook hands with older fans and slapped high-fives with the younger ones.

“We’ve got to reach out and touch the folks,” Collins said. “We have to meet the people. And this is one of the best promotions you can do.”

The ballpark tours, which will continue each Sunday because of demand, and are just one part of a promotional blitz being unleashed for the Angels that includes player appearances, giveaways and a traveling tractor-trailer.

“The idea is to open it up and invite everyone in,” said Lylle Breier, vice president of special events for Disney.

Lori James, a noon-duty school supervisor from Garden Grove, brought her two sons and four other kids to Saturday’s Hard Hat Sneak Preview of the ongoing renovation and let them try their luck at the pitching and batting cages and demonstration base paths.

One of the group, 11-year-old Shauna Krivak, a sixth-grader at Enders Elementary in Garden Grove, ran the base path in three seconds and hurled a baseball at 33 miles an hour. A softball player for the West Garden Grove Girls Softball League, her favorite part of the tour was the Angel dugout.

“They had two big-screen TVs,” she said.