Artists have been selected to gussy up the area around Target Field: St. Paul muralist Craig David and Phoenix artist Al Price were selected from among 84 applicants by a Public Art Steering Committee formed by the Minnesota Ballpark Authority (MBA) and project partners Hennepin County and Northstar Commuter Rail, the MBA announced Tuesday . […]

The Merc’s Ann Killion notes the bad timing of Lew Wolff’s anti-Oakland campaign, and reminds us what happened the last time a Bay Area owner trashed his hometown in the runup to the baseball season: Almost two decades ago, Giants owner Bob Lurie originated the “I hate my ballpark and you should too,” public relations […]

Russ Smith’s “Seventeen Ballparks and Counting” post inspired me, so today I run with my own version: Fourteen Ballparks and Counting. These aren’t comprehensive reviews or anything. Just stories and impressions of my limited travels around baseball. Bear with me: real baseball starts soon and then this kind of filler will fall off when it […]

And the second hurdle is cleared: A home, at last, for the Marlins. Miami-Dade County commissioners on Monday put to rest more than a decade quest by voting in favor of a roofed ballpark for the Marlins on the Orange Bowl grounds. Commissioners cast two separate votes; the first came back 9-4, and the second […]

Russ Smith from Splice Today has visited 17 ballparks. He runs them down today. The difference between him and most other folks who write this sort of thing (myself most especially): He’s capable of honesty when it comes to his own team’s park: Fenway Park. Surprisingly, I have mixed feelings about Fenway, despite a slavish […]

Today is the final vote for the Marlins’ stadium. As you’re waiting for that, why not click over to Facebook and find out which President or Superhero the proposed park would be: The most annoying Facebook gizmo in history appeared in December. Worse than Vampire Wars and the gifting of virtual beer, it inveigled users […]

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Finally! A place to drink near Wrigley Field! Wrigleyville took stock Thursday of a new, year-round sports bar that will spill out of Wrigley Field and be open by the Cubs’ first home game April 13. Without much fanfare, renovations have been completed at what had been the Friendly Confines Cafe inside the ballpark. The […]

One down, one to go: Miami City Commissioners approved a plan to build a $639 million Florida Marlins ballpark Thursday, nudging the long-debated stadium one step closer to reality. With a 3-2 vote, the commission approved the 37,000-seat stadium on the site of the demolished Orange Bowl. Marlins president David Samson said afterward the team […]

One of the two big votes on the Marlins’ ballpark is set for today, and there’s a lot of last minute pot-sweetening: On the eve of the most important public vote in franchise history, the Florida Marlins agreed to crucial contract changes the team hopes will help secure its elusive permanent home in South Florida. […]