Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred expects news within a year regarding potential plans for the Athletics to build a new ballpark in Oakland. MLB is monitoring weekly calls the A’s are holding to plan for a new stadium, and the low-budget franchise is exploring several potential locations. “I have spent more time with the A’s, on their stadium
Turner Field may have played host to its final Major League Baseball game, but the stadium lives on as a functional sports facility. In a testament to sustainability, the 20-year-old stadium, originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics before it was converted to a ballpark for the Atlanta Braves, will now be turned into a college
Walter Banks posed for pictures, caught up with old friends and turned a bit wistful as he remembered all the good times as an Atlanta Braves usher. It was time to say goodbye. Again. The Braves played their final game at Turner Field on Sunday, ending a run that lasted a mere 20 seasons with a 1-0 victory
There’s a strange vibe at Turner Field these days that has nothing to do with the baseball-like product that the Braves are playing. The team’s touting a countdown of the final days at its perfectly serviceable stadium while pumping up the hope and promise of next year’s home, the still-unfinished SunTrust Park, and it’s … unsettling.
As he exited Major League Baseball in 2014, former commissioner Bud Selig proudly pointed to the 20 new ballparks that opened during his 22-year tenure as a major part of his legacy. He probably figured they would last quite a bit longer, though. As one team bids farewell to a stadium only two decades old, another facility
The bases are loaded, and David Ortiz spits into his hands, claps twice, and digs in against the hated Yankees. New York left fielder Brett Gardner inches back to the warning track. Not 10 feet behind him, Christian Elias, the Green Monster scoreboard operator, peers over Gardner’s shoulder. Elias is actually in the spot where the left
The Texas Rangers unveiled expanded plans for its Texas Live! dining and retail development next to Globe Life Park today and said construction would begin in November. At an afternoon press conference, officials from the Rangers and The Cordish Companies, the primary developer, said new plans would double the size of dining and entertainment space and
If voters approve a new stadium for the Texas Rangers, the existing ballpark will be preserved and repurposed rather than demolished, according to the mayor and the team. “The ballpark will not be bulldozed,” said Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams during an appearance on Sunday’s Inside Texas Politics. The future of Globe Life Park was never fully known
The Angels demanded that the city of Anaheim order additional study of a large-scale development planned for a site adjacent to Angel Stadium. The demand, contained in the second hostile letter from Angels lawyers to the city within two weeks, comes as the team and city have revived talks on a lease that would extend the
Somewhere, Charles Comiskey is rolling over in his grave. The Chicago White Sox announced that their ballpark will change its name to Guaranteed Rate Field. The team signed a 13-year naming rights deal with Guaranteed Rate, a retail mortgage lender. Financial terms were not disclosed.The company replaces U.S. Cellular as the ballpark’s naming rights holder. The