Archive for July 1st, 2009

Boy’s night to remember at Yankee Stadium (Albany Times Union)

Guilderland fifth-grader battling leukemia meets sports heroes

The Melkman Delivers (The Record and Herald News)

New York Yankees’ Melky Cabrera follows through on a fifth-inning home run off Seattle Mariners pitcher Jarrod Washburn in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. The home run was upheld on video review by the umpires.

Yankees Stadium Revenue Will Pay Debt Service, Moody’s Says (Bloomberg)

July 1 (Bloomberg) — Revenue from the new Yankee Stadium is almost five times the amount needed to cover debt service, even with slower-than-expected sales of its most expensive seats and skyboxes, according to a report by Moody’s Investors Service.

Baseball & Bourbon (Adams Beverage Group)

Beverage Dynamics editor Richard Brandes shares a bottle of Red Stag by Jim Beam with M.T. Williams, whiskey category leader, East region, Beam Global Spirits & Wine, at a launch event for Red Stag at Yankee Stadium, June 12.

Replacement of parks in (slow) motion (New York Daily News)

Locals still waiting for the replacement parks promised when construction of the new Yankee Stadium destroyed the old ones got a dog-and-pony show last week, but not a lot of good news.

DH SUITS MATSUI JUST FINE (New York Post)

Rarely has The Bronx looked more appealing to Hideki Matsui than it did last night. Everything about the place was downright gorgeous.

Back in the Swing (Boise Weekly)

A rundown of non-baseball-related Hawks events. by Deanna Darr Now that the Boise Hawks are back in town, the team is getting behind a handful of events that have little or nothing to do with baseball