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Archives: June
2005
Oakland
Arena & McAfee Coliseum Partner With Ticketmaster
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The
Ultimate Experience in Adult Fantasy Baseball
Tours…Where the ballparks are the stars of the
event…
Denny's and
Arizona Diamondbacks Team Up to Support
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Baseball Fans
Win Ride to 'Crosstown Classic' Game on Ted
Major League
Baseball Players and Volunteers of America Help
Improve Lives of At-Risk and Disadvantaged
Children
Denny's
Sponsors the Mike Bush Fantasy Baseball Camp for
the Hearing Impaired
Ted Flight
Between O'Hare and Midway to Celebrate Chicago's
Classic Baseball Rivalry
All-Star Super Makeover Team Hosts Volunteer Rally
at Campus Martius Park
Baseball Fans
Rejoice as World's Leading Sports and
Entertainment Collectibles Company Upper Deck
Achieves Advanced Segmentation of Permission Based
Email Members Using Lyris ListManager
Wise Foods
Named Official Potato Chip and Cheez Doodle(R)
Sponsor For The New York Mets
Half
Way to Its Volunteer Goal, the All-Star Super
Makeover Seeks Additional Volunteers to Beautify
Downtown Detroit
MLB.com Producing
Exclusive Live Video Broadcast Of Today's
Padres/Tigers Game
ConAgra Foods
and Charlotte Knights team up to help feed
children better
Ridgway's bat men swing from the heels: local bat
producer reaches the major leagues
MLB.com to host
Washington, D.C. press briefing
Cingular
Wireless Asks Fans in Omaha to 'Pitch in for Youth
Sports' During NCAA Men's College World Series
Padres' Mark Loretta Joins American Melanoma
Foundation
Ivan
Rodriguez and Troy Percival McFarlane's Sports
Picks Exclusives Available Only at John Hancock
All-Star FanFest, July 8-12
August
Publications launches College Baseball Digest
Sportsbook.com offers Barry Bonds' 700th Home Run
Ball to Cooperstown
MLB.com to offer
both home and away television broadcasts of
tomorrow's Cubs vs. Red Sox game
80
Philadelphia Area Children With Disabilities to
Spend a `Day at the Phillies Game' With Young
Professionals Groups
Lucky Yankees fans
will receive collectible New York Yankees 1964 1/2
Ford Mustang die-cast vehicle at June 19 Yankees
vs. Cubs game
Third
Coast Sports takes "Faith Nights" nationwide
Aflac
All-American Justin Upton takes top spot in the
2005 Major League Baseball Draft
Red Sox fans stay
connected with MLB.com's 'Baseball To Go'
Boys &
Girls Clubs of America Honors Major League
Baseball and Verizon Communications Senior Vice
President at Annual's President Dinner
Gatorade
recognizes Florida softball standout with its
National Player of the Year Award
Crawford unfazed by arena rejection |
The
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Complex and
Chicago
baseball fan Dan Lyne is the first lucky winner of
coveted seats on the private, crosstown Ted(SM)
flight between O'Hare and Midway that will take
Chicagoans to the June 26 "Crosstown Classic" game
between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs at
U.S. Cellular Field. Upon winning the seats, Lyne
of Chicago exclaimed, "I'll be cheering for
baseball on Sunday ... man, the memories, beers,
brats, baseball ... and throw in an airplane;
awesome! I love both teams and went to both parks
last year -- 15 times each," said Lyne.
Through
the Major League Baseball Players Trust charitable
foundation, Major League baseball players today
presented Volunteers of America with grants to
help at-risk and disadvantaged children and youth.
Volunteers of America's local offices in North and
South Carolina, North and South Dakota, Northern
New England, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma each
received a grant of $10,000 to fund programs
targeting at- risk and disadvantaged children and
youth. The award was presented during Volunteers
of America's national conference in Washington,
D.C., June 18-22.
The
world is coming to Detroit, and the metro Detroit
community is invited to get in the game by
volunteering to beautify downtown Detroit through
the "All-Star Super Makeover." Having reached
almost half its goal of engaging 1,000 volunteers,
the "All-Star Super Makeover" team will be at
Campus Martius Park today, Monday, June 20 seeking
additional volunteers to participate in its June
25th downtown beautification initiative.
Lyris(R)
Technologies, world-class developer of email
marketing software and services, and a subsidiary
of J.L. Halsey (JLHY.ob), today announced that
worlds' leading sports and entertainment
collectibles company, Upper Deck, has deployed
ListManager's advanced targeting tools, as well as
its open database access and customizable API, to
keep avid fans in the loop about their favorite
players and performers. ListManager software
was integrated with Upper Deck's SQL database,
which allowed Upper Deck to manage twelve mailing
lists based on customer interests that were
automatically integrated with its other systems.
Since switching over, Upper Deck's opt-in mailing
list has grown to millions of members.
Wise
Foods Inc., a leading regional producer of salty
snacks, and the New York Mets announced today that
Wise has been named Official Potato Chip and Cheez
Doodle(R) Sponsor for the New York Mets. Wise has
also been named Starting Lineup Sponsor, and will
be sponsoring Mets infielder Jose Reyes as the
team's "Wise Player". Under the three-year
agreement with the team, Wise will be the
exclusive supplier of Wise(R) potato chips, New
York Deli(R) kettle chips and Cheez Doodles(R) to
all Mets home games held at Shea Stadium, and will
have a strong and supportive presence with the
team.
MLB.com,
the official website of Major League Baseball,
will offer the only live video broadcast of
tomorrow's San Diego Padres vs. Detroit Tigers
game directly from Comerica Park in Detroit on
MLB.TV at 1:05 EDT. This is the first time San
Diego has visited Detroit since the 1984 World
Series match-up. San Diego's Woody Williams (2-4)
is expected to go against Detroit's Jeremy
Bonderman (7-4). The exclusive broadcast is being
produced by MLB.com's Mike Siano, with former
Major Leaguer and MLB.com's own Billy Sample
providing the play-by-play on MLB.TV.
Beginning
today, every run the Knights score will do more
than help them win games: Each run will help feed
hungry children. 
Randy
and Kyle Drone are swinging from the heels. The
father-son duo has yet to hit the ball out of the
park, but the count is definitely in their favor.
Three years ago the Drones founded Dinger Bats
with the hope of getting a share of the wooden bat
market. They haven't achieved the status of
Louisville Slugger or Adirondack, but the Drones
and Dinger have reached the big leagues. Brad
Wilkerson, the Washington Nationals'
centerfielder, and Jamey Carroll, the Nationals'
second baseman, both use Dinger bats. Carroll, an
Evansville, Ind., native, played for the Aces.
To
celebrate the heritage of the
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Attention
baseball fans, you now have a place on the Web to
follow the college version of America's pastime.
From the creators of Ballpark Digest (
Gathering
for an afternoon of soft pretzels, hot dogs and
home runs, 40 members the Young Professionals
Network (YPN) of the
ERTL
Collectibles, a division of RC2 Corporation (
Third
Coast Sports has “faith” their minor-league
baseball promotion will work in cities outside of
the Bible Belt. The company that helped vault the
Nashville Sounds “Faith Night” series into the
national spotlight in 2004 is now promoting
similar events in 2005 with minor league baseball
teams in 10 other cities from coast to coast.
Faith Nights marry promotions including Christian
concerts, religious-themed giveaway items and
testimonies by Christian players with minor league
baseball games.
For
the second consecutive year, an Aflac All-American
baseball player has been selected as the No. 1
overall draft pick by Major League Baseball.
Justin Upton, a shortstop from Chesapeake, Va.,
was chosen by the Arizona Diamondbacks as the top
pick in round one of the 2005 draft. A senior at
Great Bridge High School, Upton was a member of
the 2004 Aflac All-American High School Baseball
Classic.
Boys
& Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) will salute Major
League Baseball (MLB) and John Bell, senior vice
president -- domestic telecom human resources,
Verizon Communications, for their ongoing
commitment to children and youth at its annual
President's Dinner. The dinner, with expected
guests to include Major League Baseball Hall of
Famers and longtime New York Yankees teammates
Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, is being held today at
the Waldorf-Astoria.
In
its 20th Anniversary season of honoring the
nation's elite high school athletes, Gatorade(R)
Thirst Quencher, in partnership with Scholastic
Coach & Athletic Director magazine, today
announced Dani Hofer of Palm Harbor University
High School in Palm Harbor, Fla., as the 2005
Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year. The
announcement was made live on this morning's
edition of ESPN2's Cold Pizza.