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ARAMARK Introduces Environmentally Responsible Programs for 2008 Baseball Season; Unveils New Ballpark Food and Menu Concepts PHILADELPHIA -- When baseball fans visit ballparks across America this season, the outfield grass won't be the only "green" they see as part of their game day experience. With Opening Day approaching, ARAMARK...
ENERGY RESOURCE-24 March 2008-ARAMARK 'Greens' Baseball ConcessionsC2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com When baseball fans visit ballparks across America this season, the outfield grass won't be the only "green" they see as part of their game day experience. With Opening Day approaching, ARAMARK today announced a variety of environmentally friendly practices...
Going to a baseball game is no longer just about watching the field — it's about the ballpark “experience.” SF Giants Chief Operating Officer Larry Baer says that stadium sales at AT&T Park account for up to 65 percent of overall team revenue. Baer shares his insights on the ever-changing,...
WASHINGTON - They build these places and hope to fill them with memories and wonderful days and people, mostly people, if you want to know the truth, and sometimes that even happens.Sometimes, as has been the tortured baseball history of D.C. Stadium, which hosted its first major-league game in 1962...
LOS ANGELES -- We must have made an odd sight -- two out-of- towners in a bar on Hollywood Boulevard on a sunny Saturday, hunched over a smudgy newspaper weather map, drawing thick lines in black ink. We had six hours before the hometown Dodgers played the Pittsburgh...
NEW YORK AFP — Yankee Stadium, set to close in 2008 after 85 seasons, was named to host next year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game, major league commissioner Bud Selig announced. Among the handful of most famous sporting venues in America, the stadium that saw heroics by such legends...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Underscoring his commitment to the future of baseball and Washington, D.C., District businessman Franklin L. Haney today presented City officials with a commitment to pay the cost overruns for the construction of a state-of-the-art ballpark along the Anacostia River if he and his family...
For years, Bud Selig & Co. fretted about getting a new stadium for the Montreal Expos. When that failed, relocating became just as big a problem. The Expos have landed in Washington as the Nationals and, unless something goes haywire, will get a stadium in 2008. With that...
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mayor Anthony Williams convinced Major League Baseball to move the Montreal Expos to Washington, D.C.--which has been without a franchise since the Senators left town in 1971 to become the Texas Rangers--in exchange for the city's building a new ballpark. (In the meantime, the freshly christened "Nationals"...
BOSTON AFP — Police officials tightened security around fabled Fenway Park for the opening game of the 100th World Series in the wake of a wild celebration here Thursday that led to the death of a reveler. Rowdy spectators were already in the streets six hours before the start...
By Vik Jolly, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 8--ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Emily Fischer, Danny Blaylock and Donald McGregor swung by Albertsons to grab a Corona 12-pack before heading to Angel Stadium a few hours before game time...
By Carolyn Salazar, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 8--The city of Miami today will deliver what could be its last pitch in trying to lure the Florida Marlins, but its options don't address the project's biggest quandary: How the...
ST. LOUIS, United States AFP ? A new privately funded ballpark for Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals will open in 2006, the club announced. In revealing the needed financing is in place, the Cardinals announced they will depart their current home, Busch Stadium, after the 2005 season, the...
AS EXPECTED, Sunday's column detailing the thrown cell-phone incident involving Texas outfielder Carl Everett at Network Associates Coliseum was met with a flood of response. What wasn't expected was the overwhelming call from readers demanding that baseball and other pro sports stop the flood of alcohol flowing from their stadium...
HOUSTON - Colorado Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd said last week that the organization has grown "frustrated" with the lack of forward motion on a new stadium for the Triple-A Sky Sox and that the current stadium is hurting the Rockies' player development. "We definitely have made it...
By Brian Murphy, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 21--As the governor and the Minnesota Twins scrutinize legislation to build a new ballpark, a Hennepin County judge could decide in two weeks whether to proceed with a lawsuit trying to...
A letter inviting local and national architectural firms to propose designs for a new Washington baseball stadium is the latest evidence that wheels are turning to bring Major League Baseball to the nation's capital.The letter seeking “expressions of interest” in the stadium project was sent by Washington Baseball Club Inc.,...
A letter inviting local and national architectural firms to propose designs for a new Washington baseball stadium is the latest evidence that wheels are turning to bring Major League Baseball to the nation's capital. The letter seeking "expressions of interest" in the stadium project was sent by Washington Baseball Club...
By Kelly D. Patterson, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 20--ARLINGTON, Texas--A pesky 24-year-old set Arlington on the course it knows today. In 1951, Tom Vandergriff was president of the small Arlington Chamber of Commerce and decided...
Dec. 28--ARLINGTON, Texas--This year might finally be the year that a naming rights deal gets done for The Ballpark in Arlington. Since Dallas millionaire businessman Tom Hicks bought the Texas Rangers in 1998, there's been a plan to sell the rights to rename the...
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