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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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The ESPN Experiences: Take Me Out to the Ballparks tour over Labor Day Weekend will allow fans to experience a five-day, four-night Major League Baseball immersive experience. Stops include Fenway Park in Boston, Yankee Stadium in New York and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, along with a private tour of the Jackie Robinson Museum and […]
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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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Major League Baseball announced its agreement with the Pioneer Baseball League has been extended through the 2028 season, with the league implementing the Automated Balls and Strikes system for the 2024 season. The Pioneer League is based in the western United States and operates as one of four MLB partner leagues without MLB team affiliations. […]
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Bat Around has announced its first Major League Baseball team partnership with the Tampa Bay Rays, bringing the free mixed-reality experience game to Tropicana Field at every home game for the 2024 season. The Bat Around activation will be located on the left field concourse at Tropicana Field in the Grand Slam Alley area. The […]
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Experience Kissimmee will be the official Florida destination partner for the 2024 Major League Baseball World Tour: Mexico City Series, a two-game set between the Houston Astros and the Colorado Rockies at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú in Mexico City from April 27–28. This is the first time that Experience Kissimmee has supported an MLB event […]
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Major League Baseball and the Fort Worth Sports Commission have announced that the opening night of the 2024 MLB Draft will be held Sunday, July 14 at the Cowtown Coliseum in the Fort Worth Stockyards. The draft will be open to the public and coincides with 2024 MLB All-Star Week events in Arlington, Fort Worth […]
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The Larry H. Miller Company and Miller family have unveiled renderings for a mixed-use entertainment district anchored by a new baseball stadium that would be the site for a potential Major League Baseball expansion team. The Power District, a nearly 100-acre site adjacent to the Utah State Fairpark and the Jordan River, would be located […]
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Taiwan-based Starlux Airlines and the Los Angeles Dodgers have announced a three-year renewal agreement to be the team’s exclusive Taiwanese Airline Partner. The renewal, which runs through the 2026 Major League Baseball season, coincides with the recent announcement of the Dodgers’ signing Japanese star players Shohei Ohtani and Yamamoto Yoshinobu. Starlux Airlines operates daily flights […]
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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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