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"Field of Dreams" Will Become Youth Baseball Complex
By Phil Villarreal on October 31, 2011 9:30 AM
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If you were saving up the $5.4 million it was going to take to buy the real Field of Dreams featured in the movie "Field of Dreams," in hopes of keeping it out of the hands of evil land developers, it's time to move on. A family from a Chicago suburb has bought the property and plans to open it as a youth baseball and softball complex in 2014. More »
Beer Company Says It Will Come To Rescue Of Man Who Caught Derek Jeter's 3,000th Hit
By Chris Morran on July 13, 2011 2:15 PM
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The saga of the NY Yankees fan who caught — and then gave back — the baseball Derek Jeter knocked out of the park for hit number 3,000 continues. First, the team rewarded the fan with memorabilia and luxury box tickets for the rest of the season. Then came reports that he could be on the hook for thousands of dollars in taxes for the freebies. Today he got some potentially good news, as the folks at Miller High Life say they'll foot the bill for any potential tax liability the guy might have. More »
The Potential Tax Perils Of Catching A Historic Baseball
By Phil Villarreal on July 12, 2011 9:45 AM
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If you're a dreamer who totes a baseball glove to a ballgame and seeks bleacher seats in hopes of catching a home run ball, you may want to consider the tax implications of your whimsy. The man who chased down the home run ball that was Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit — and gave it back to Jeter — may face financial peril because of the windfall of swag the Yankees showered upon him. The IRS may consider the free season tickets and signed merchandise the team gave the man to be taxable income. More »
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Poor Attendance And Online Ticket Sales Are A Baseball Fan's Dream
By Phil Villarreal on May 29, 2011 12:30 PM
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Major League Baseball teams can try to raise their ticket prices to increase revenue, but supply and demand ultimately determine their prices. Seas of empty seats at baseball games and stockpiles of marked-down tickets available on sites such as StubHub can make for ridiculously cheap tickets, especially in cities with bad teams. More »
Mets To Sell Stake To Hedge Fund Manager For $200 Million
By Marc Perton on May 26, 2011 1:45 PM
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New York Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon and Saul Katz will sell a minority stake in the troubled team to hedge fund manager David Einhorn for $200 million. The cash will allow the team to remain solvent, and presumably avoid a Dodgers-style takeover by Major League Baseball. More »
Tips For Saving Big Bucks On Baseball Tickets
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 27, 2011 1:30 PM
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Before you can buy me the peanuts and cracker jack, you need to get tickets to the baseball game. There are ways you can snag deals on tickets to even the biggest games, and save some money for beer, food or cheaper seats at future games. More »
Seattle Mariners Beer Guy Now Taking Orders Over Twitter
By Chris Morran on April 5, 2011 10:30 AM
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After five seasons of scaling the steps of Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, selling beers to fans in their seats, one suds vendor is giving customers the chance to notify him directly of their beer needs via Twitter. More »
If You're A NY Yankees Fan, We Hope You Don't Have DirecTV
By Chris Morran on March 31, 2011 5:28 PM
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In spite of the icicles hanging off the eaves, baseball season is upon is, which can mean only one thing: fights between broadcasters and cable companies that threaten to black out games! More »
No Difference Between Large & Small Beers At Oakland Coliseum?
By Chris Morran on February 17, 2011 12:15 PM
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Qwest Field, home of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, recently caught some flack when people pointed out that you could fit an entire large beer into a "small" beer cup. A video shot at the Oakland Athletics' ballpark is making people wonder how widespread this issue is. More »
Yankees Cut Me Great Deal: 5 Tickets For The Price Of 6
By Phil Villarreal on January 14, 2011 2:40 PM
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A Yankees fan who is so hardcore that he buys actual tickets to physically go to games, Scott not only has to deal with the failure to land Cliff Lee but also a missing ticket from his six-pack order. The screw-up is thanks to a mailing snafu he can't seem to get the club to address. More »
Have You Ever Pulled A Cliff Lee, Choosing Happiness Over Money?
By Phil Villarreal on December 15, 2010 9:45 AM
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Flamethrowing pitcher Cliff Lee spurned the New York Yankees and their bottomless bankroll for his less wealthy former team, the Philadelphia Phillies. More »
Dodgers Forget They Left Brooklyn In 1957, File Complaint Against Brooklyn Burger Over Logo
By Chris Morran on November 3, 2010 4:20 PM
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Fifty-three years ago, the Dodgers told the borough of Brooklyn to shove it up its nose with a rubber hose and lit out for the warmer climes of Los Angeles. Now they've returned — well, at least their lawyers have — to file a trademark infringement complaint against a local burger company for daring to use a similar font and the word "Brooklyn." More »
Cablevision Gives Customers Free World Series Streams
October 27, 2010 9:12 PM
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Good news for aging New York Giants loyalists and Yankee fans who want to do a pre-purchase check-in on Cliff Lee: This evening, Cablevision emailed customers — who have lost all Fox programming, including the World Series, due to the ongoing battle between the two companies — and said they would reimburse them for Major League Baseball's $9.95 Postseason.tv service. More »
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No Resolution In Cablevision/Fox Fracas With Only Hours To Go To World Series Start
By Chris Morran on October 27, 2010 10:49 AM
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The World Series begins tonight on Fox, but it looks like 3 million Cablevision subscribers will have to resort to finding an antenna or watching elsewhere as the thumb-wrestling match between the cable provider and NewsCorp drags on without resolution. More »
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Fox vs. Cablevision Pissing Match Ends In Baseball Blackout
By Chris Morran on October 16, 2010 12:41 AM
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Just in time for the NLCS and the World Series, the very public slap fight between NewsCorp and Cablevision hit an impasse on Friday night, with Cablevision subscribers in the New York City and Philadelphia metro areas no longer having access to their local Fox affiliates. More »
Mets Fan Sues Team, League, Players & Bat Maker After Getting Hit By Broken Bat
By Chris Morran on August 11, 2010 10:15 AM
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In August 2007, a man was sitting in the second row of Shea Stadium watching the New York Mets blow another promising season when he was struck in the face by the barrel of a shattered bat. He suffered multiple injuries including a shattered jaw as a result. Now, almost three years to the day, he's filed suit against the Mets, Major League Baseball, players Luis Castillo and Ramon Castro and the bat manufacturer. More »
Vomiting Phillies Fan Sentenced To At Least 30 Days In Jail
By Chris Morran on August 3, 2010 1:15 PM
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For better or worse — and for most of my life, it's tended toward the latter — I am a Philadelphia Phillies fan. That being said, I was just as horrified as everyone else when a drunk jerk at a Phillies game intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl back in April. Thus, I'm happy to report that he is now behind bars... and that he's really from New Jersey. More »
Baseball Teams Invite You To Stuff Your Face With Infinite Nachos
By Phil Villarreal on July 21, 2010 10:15 AM
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In an effort to ramp up slumping attendance, 19 of the 30 Major League Baseball teams are offering some sort of all-you-can-eat promotion this year. The feeding troughs keep fans happy as the teams slog through the dog days of the endless season. More »
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Nationals: If You Want To See Prospect's Debut, Buy Tix To 3 Other Games
By Phil Villarreal on June 1, 2010 10:00 AM
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Daniel is a beaten-down Washington Nationals fan looking to be in the crowd when top draft pick Stephen Strasburg takes the mound a week from today. He said the game was suddenly sold out after the Nationals indicated when Strasburg might make his first start, and then Daniel got this email from the team, declaring intentions to shake down fans to buy tickets to other games if they want to see Strasburg's debut: More »
If You Buy It, They Will Come
By Meg Marco on May 14, 2010 12:59 PM
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Looking for a farm with a ballpark on it? Look no more! The family that owns the Field of Dreams cornfield ballpark has decided to sell. The asking price? $5.4 million. More »
