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The proposed plan to split the Rays’ Major League Baseball seasons between Tampa Bay and Montreal has been rejected by MLB, the team announced on Thursday. The MLB Executive Council allowed the Rays in June 2019 to explore plans for a shared season with the team playing games in spring training in Tampa Bay, then […]
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The 2023 Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be hosted by the Seattle Mariners and T-Mobile Park, the league announced on Thursday afternoon. The 2023 Midsummer Classic will be the 93rd edition of the All-Star Game, which dates back to 1933. Seattle first hosted the game in 1979 at the Kingdome and then in 2001 […]
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On the screen behind the commissioner’s podium, from different angles, is the green and yellow logo of the Oakland A’s. The music of En Vogue plays on the speakers at the Bellco Theatre in Denver during a rehearsal the day before the Major League Baseball Draft. “En Vogue,” says Frank Supovitz. “They’re from Oakland.” Supovitz […]
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In a year in which Major League Baseball has tried to deaden the baseball slightly in an attempt to have fewer home runs and bring more strategy into the game, the league will bring its Midsummer Classic to a venue that is known for some long balls leaving the park. Major League Baseball has announced […]
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Major League Baseball is moving the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft out of Atlanta after a new Georgia law that includes restrictions on voting by mail and greater legislative control over how elections are run. “I have decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s […]
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Tony Reagins has been promoted to chief baseball development officer of Major League Baseball, where he will oversee the growth of youth and amateur levels of baseball and softball in the United States and internationally. Reagins, who began at MLB in 2015 as senior vice president of the Youth Programs department, will also be tasked […]
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Major League Baseball’s annual draft will be on the move from New Jersey and heading to Omaha, the site of the College World series, and the Holland Performing Arts Center. Major League Baseball will move the date of the first round of the 2020 Draft to June 10 so that the event does not overlap […]
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If Major League Baseball builds a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark in the middle of an Iowa cornfield, will people come? That’s what MLB will find out on August 13, 2020, when the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees play a regular-season game in Dyersville, Iowa, at the site of the movie “Field of Dreams.” The […]
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One of the most famous lines in “Field of Dreams” no longer is true: If you build it, people won’t come. In the current sports scene, you need to make it an experience beyond merely a game to get people to the stadium so they can brag about being there for days to their friends […]
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Atlanta has been awarded the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will be played at the Braves’ SunTrust Park. It will be the first time Atlanta has hosted the Midsummer Classic since 2000, when Turner Field staged the game. The city also hosted 1972, when Hank Aaron hit a two-run home run to lead […]
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The @Big12Conference has selected the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah, to host the 2025, 2026 and 2027 Big 12 Gymnastics Championships. The 2025 Big 12 Gymnastics Championship’s two sessions will be held March 22 at noon and 5 p.m. local time.
.@PlayNAIA has selected Orange Beach Sportsplex in Orange Beach, Alabama, and @GSOB_Sports as hosts for the 2025, 2026 and 2027 NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championships.
Move United was given the 2024 Rings of Gold Award by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee during its annual assembly last week in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Triple Crown Sports has announced the departure of Sean Hardy, who is stepping down from his role as chief operating officer to join League One Volleyball as chief growth officer.
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