With the city of Houston still reeling from widespread flooding and continued rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the Astros’ series against the Texas Rangers this week has been moved to Florida.
And the name of the new Rangers stadium is …
The Texas Rangers will be playing in a new $1.1 billion retractable roof ballpark in 2020, but it will have a familiar name. The Rangers announced that the new stadium to be built adjacent to Globe Life Park will be called Globe Life Field.
County on Marlins home run sculpture: ‘It is not movable.’
The kitschy home-run sculpture at Marlins Park can’t be removed by Derek Jeter or anyone else who might buy the team, according to its owner: Miami-Dade County.
Jeter group buying Marlins could remove home-run sculpture from ballpark
Jeffrey Loria has reportedly agreed to sell the Miami Marlins to a group fronted by former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. With the smoke clearing, we’re starting to get more information about the new group and its plans — including one possibility that figures to be unpopular.
What do you want in a new Oakland A’s stadium? The team is dying to know.
Plenty of ink has been spilled over the possible location for the new Oakland A’s ballpark. But what do fans really care about?
An online survey released by the A’s asks the team’s devotees not only to rank the three sites under consideration, but help decide how it should “feel.”
MLB Officials ‘Alarmed’ at Chase Field Conditions
An attorney for the Arizona Diamondbacks says that Major League Baseball is so alarmed at the conditions of Chase Field that the league may require the team to leave the city unless stadium repairs are done.
How Turner Field turned into Georgia State’s football stadium
The dugouts have been removed. The natural-grass baseball field has been turned into an artificial-turf football field. A new grandstand has been constructed in what used to be right field.
Even sports stadium ‘facelifts’ cost taxpayers millions
A facelift is supposed to be a nip here, a tuck there and some minor tugging: If you end up with a perpetually surprised expression, you’ve done it wrong.
Turner Field’s transformation to GSU Stadium nearly complete
Turner Field’s transformation is in the home stretch. The former home to the Atlanta Braves is still searching for its official name, but the new home for the Georgia State Panthers is looking more like a football field
Dodgers asking $12M per year for naming rights to field at Dodger Stadium
With the possible exceptions of Wrigley Field and Fenway Park, Dodger Stadium may be the most iconic ballpark name in all of baseball. Now, that eminently recognizable moniker may be getting a bit clunkier in the service of increasing club revenues.