on 11/10/01 7:50 AM, David Brauer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sec Taylor Stadium (the only one in America named after a > sportswriter)
I believe that Jack Murphy stadium in San Diego is also named after a sportswriter. > My larger point is if you are for Triple-A ball, know you will have to > be for subsidy. You'll probably be subsidizing millionaire owners, not > billionaires, and the players will be making salaries you can relate > to...until they get good enough to play in the bigs. I lived in Austin, Texas, in 1994-95, during the time that the owner of the AAA Phoenix Firebirds was trying to move and build a $20 million or so stadium in Austin. How they got my name is beyond me (licensed attorney and semi-attendee of U.Texas college baseball, I suppose), but I was personally solicited at a breakfast meeting by a salesman for the opportunity to purchase, for a sizable sum, a Personal Seat License to fund construction of the stadium. I declined, of course. So did everyone else, which is why the project fizzled, and why Austin, Texas, remains the largest metropolitan area in the country without any form of professional baseball, IIRC. Life goes on . . . Greg ------------------------------------ Sent from the computer of: Greg Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linden Hills (612) 925-0630 ------------------------------------ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
