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...Cleveland Indians have sold out every home game for three years in a wonderful new ballpark, and are postseason mainstays. Yet the baseball team is only marginally profitable. This week, with no place to go but down, the club will offer stock to the public for $15 a share. Rabid fans may want the stock, but others should take a pass...
...Bank One Ballpark, with its swimming pool beyond the right-center field fence, in Phoenix. Tropicana Field, with its cigar bar, in Tampa...
...Kessler has great speed," Walsh said. "He knows how to play hitters and he knows how to play hitters and he knows our ballpark extremely well. He plays an extremely shallow left and takes away base knocks from a lot of hitters...
...April 10, the Boston Red Sox will open their 86th season at Fenway Park, which, along with Detroit's Tiger Stadium, is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. In 1999, Fenway will host its third All-Star Game, its first since 1961. But if Red Sox ownership has its way, by 2010 the Red Sox will be playing in a brand new stadium, probably in South Boston, while venerable Fenway will go the way of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds...
Fenway Park presents a rare treasure for the city of Boston. It is a ballpark well integrated into its environs, an historical and architectural landmark and a classic fixture of the American cityscape. Should the Red Sox go through with their threats and move to a new site, Boston would lose not just a beautiful ballpark. It would lose a part of itself...