Postcards from Arizona: Remembering the Pink Pony

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The squat, gray building faces Scottsdale Road, with “For Lease” signs in its front windows. It would be undistinguished except for two features: A giant mural of a baseball on one of its sides, and the faint outline on the front of the building:
“PINK PONY”
In a town where spring training has become big business, and where establishments throughout the Old Town district — just blocks from the ballpark where the San Francisco Giants play th