The Marlins and Pirates were scheduled to play two games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 30 and 31. Not any more. After the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) consulted with players from the two teams about the danger of contracting the Zika virus, the players union and MLB jointly announced Friday that the two games would be played at Marlins Park in Miami instead. Read More
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Wow, everything looks different!
Welcome to the brand-new BaseballParks.com! As our site was approaching its 20th year (and how many other websites can say that?), we felt that another set of renovations was in order. We hired Altair Technology (the company that has expertly hosted our site since 2001) to change e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g about the format and look of the site. And that’s exactly what they did.
I wanted the new look to emphasize two things … Read More
Minors might be returning to Kissimmee and Fayetteville
Two markets that lost Minor League teams — Kissimmee, FL and Fayetteville, NC — look to be regaining them. One would be in an existing ballpark and the other in a brand-new one. Read More
Hartford still on schedule for May 31
They had a roster of promising players. A cute new name and logo. An experienced front office.
They just didn’t have a ballpark to play in.
The Hartford Yard Goats (who until last year were the New Britain Rock Cats) had hoped to move into brand-new Dunkin’ Donuts Park at the beginning of the 2016 season. Read More
Happy Birthday to Sports Weekly
Twenty-five years ago this month, the first issue of Baseball Weekly hit newsstands across the country. It was run by Gannett, who also published the highly successful USA TODAY. The execs at Gannett were huge baseball fans — and early fanatics of fantasy baseball — and they hated it when The Sporting News stopped including box scores in 1990. So in April 1991, they launched a weekly magazine that is still going strong. Despite a seven-month baseball strike in 1994, a name change to Sports Weekly in 2002, and a consolidation of the staff with USA TODAY Sports in 2006, the publication is still going strong. Read More
Adding protection at MLB parks
It made big news last December when Major League Baseball sent a recommendation to the 30 teams that they extend the netting in front of the field-level seats of their parks. More than one lawsuit had been filed after fans had been injured by foul balls and, increasingly, jagged portions of bats.
The New York Times examined how teams had addressed the issue in an article that focused on Target Field in Minneapolis. Read More