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Ripken Baseball and Walt Disney World Resort have agreed to host youth baseball experiences at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in the summers of 2025 and 2026, involving four week-long tournaments each year. The first tournament will be staged June 8–13, 2025. Week 2 will be held from June 15–20; Week 3 from June […]
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Rickwood Field is a bucket list location for any baseball fan and June 20, the world will get the full experience of the oldest professional ballpark in the United States. The field in Birmingham, Alabama, which opened in 1910, has seen 180 future Baseball Hall of Famers compete on its hallowed grounds. Now, Rickwood Field […]
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Baseball is returning to Columbus, Georgia, as the city celebrated a groundbreaking at the newly-named Synovus Park on June 11 that will allow Minor League Baseball to return to the Columbus area for the first time in 17 years when the Mississippi Braves — Double A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves — move to Georgia […]
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Dozens of Minor League Baseball teams will be holding Negro League tributes throughout the month of June as part of special activations across the sport leading up to two Major League Baseball games being played in Birmingham, Alabama. On June 18, America’s oldest professional ballpark, Rickwood Field, will host a Double-A game between the Montgomery […]
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Houston’s Minute Maid Park and Miami’s loanDepot Park will be the U.S. host sites for the 2026 World Baseball Classic along with the Tokyo Dome in Japan and Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tokyo and Miami were hosts in the 2023 tournament which culminated with Japan beating the United States 3-2. It […]
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The Single-A baseball team that will be a Texas Rangers’ affiliate starting next season in Spartanburg, South Carolina, had its brand unveiling during a block party Saturday as the Hub City Spartanburgers were revealed to a large crowd. “The process had already started between some of the leadership at [team ownership group] Diamond Baseball Holdings […]
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USA Baseball has announced the grand opening of the executive offices and training center at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina, with a 20-year agreement to make Cary the home of USA Baseball. USA Baseball and Cary leadership gathered on-site for the ribbon cutting earlier this month. USA Baseball Board of […]
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Youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service Perfect Game has announced its investor group, which is made up, in part, of 21 former and active major league players. The announcement of the investor group comes days after Perfect Game appointed former Major League All-Star and American League Most Valuable Player award winner Mo Vaughn […]
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Perfect Game has announced the appointment of former Major League All-Star and American League Most Valuable Player award winner Mo Vaughn as special assistant to ownership for the youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service. Vaughn’s appointment comes a week after former All-Star outfielder Ryan Klesko joined Perfect Game in a similar position. Vaughn, […]
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Perfect Game has announced details for its upcoming 11U, 12U, 13U and 14U Select Festival as three states will host the four separate showcase events this August. The announcement comes on the same week as Perfect Game announced the 22st edition of its Dick’s Sporting Goods All-American Classic will return to Chase Field in Phoenix […]
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.@DelawareTourism has announced it will reopen the Sports Tourism Capital Investment Fund for applications on August 1, 2024, with a deadline of September 13. The fund provides financial support to sports facilities that hold events throughout the year.
The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors in Virginia have announced the creation of the Pulaski County Sports Tourism & Entertainment Authority. The new division will manage the county’s sports tourism and entertainment facilities and assets.
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Doping, historically linked to the Olympic Summer Games for decades, is not going away as a topic of discussion at #Paris2024 as the dispute between U.S. and world doping officials has exploded into public view this week.
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