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		<title>What&#8217;s New At The Ballpark: Fort Wayne</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Beat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baseball America is counting down to Opening Day by looking at the many different ways minor league franchises are getting ready for the season. For some teams, getting ready means adding a new scoreboard so the kiss cam and shell game can be viewed in high def. Or it&#8217;s a section of seats that needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s New At The Ballpark: Northwest Arkansas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep the product fresh. It&#8217;s a mantra recited by minor league operators in markets large and small, at ballparks new and old. For unlike their major league counterparts, the people who run minor league teams realize that much of their fan base considers the action on the field secondary to the hijinks and entertainment off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rangers Prospect Leads Authentic Cast In Equipment Commercial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conor Glassey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been watching MLB Network lately, you&#8217;ve probably seen a commercial for Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods. The commercial, which was filmed at Blair Field in Long Beach, Calif., is called &#8220;Every Pitch,&#8221; and if you haven&#8217;t seen it, here it is . . . The commercial, which was created by the Anomaly agency and produced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durham Bulls To Host 2014 Triple-A All-Star Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Durham Bulls general manager Mike Birling feared that the team&#8217;s moment in the sun last September when they hosted the Triple-A National Championship would be spoiled by the one element he could not control: weather. Roughly three inches of rain fell on Durham Bulls Athletic Park during the nationally televised finale of the minor league [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MLBAM Buys Rockies Domain Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major League Baseball Advanced Media has purchased the domain name Rockies.com for an undisclosed sum from a Canadian organization that promoted tourism in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. MLB Advanced Media vice president of corporate communications Matthew Gould confirmed the transaction but declined to comment on the amount MLBAM paid for the domain. The sale gives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upper Deck Founder Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upper Deck co-founder and CEO Richard P. McWilliam passed away suddenly on Saturday at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. He was 59 years old. McWilliam co-founded Upper Deck in 1989 and oversaw its operations until his death. He is credited with helping to transform the sports trading card industry, acquiring a Major League [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Meetings: MiLB Begins Search For Marketing Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE&#8212;Minor League Baseball president Pat O&#8217;Conner spent a good part of his stay in Nashville explaining the sport&#8217;s new marketing plan to his constituents during league meetings. Next up on his to-do list is finding someone to run the program. O&#8217;Conner said Minor League Baseball has hired New York executive search company to recruit an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Meetings: MiLB Launches New Marketing Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE&#8212;Just four years ago, Minor League Baseball president Pat O&#8217;Conner kicked off the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas by urging his constituents to come together as a group and approve the plan to bring every team&#8217;s Web properties under the umbrella of Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The Baseball Internet Rights Co, which was approved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Meetings: Myrtle Beach Shops For A GM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE&#8211;At the Winter Meetings, minor league teams typically fill out their front offices with fresh-faced job seekers eager to break into baseball. However, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (Carolina) arrived at this year&#8217;s event at the Opryland Hotel with more serious business to tackle, like finding a new general manager. Scott Brown left his post in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scranton Changes Name From Yankees To RailRiders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre applied the first strokes of a franchise makeover last night by replacing its Yankees nickname of the past six seasons with a new moniker that, while short on the tradition that the team&#8217;s previous name carried, offers plenty of creativity. The third team name in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre&#8217;s franchise history is the RailRiders. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball Votes: Resounding No In Wilmington, Yes In El Paso</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may not have earned a projection on cable news or made a blip on John King&#8217;s interactive map, but ballpark ballot measures certainly got the vote out in Wilmington, N.C., and El Paso, Texas. Wilmington residents overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to pay for a $37 million ballpark project through an increase in property taxes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Messes With Success By Changing Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reading Phillies have little reason to change. After all, this is the franchise that topped the Eastern League in average attendance last season for the sixth time in the past seven years. This is one of the best-run operations in the business, which has transformed a 61-year-old stadium into one of the premier venues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bakersfield Announces Plans For New Ballpark</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Blaney has often said that Bakersfield could be the best market in the California League, if only it had a new ballpark. The former Dodgers farm director and third-year Cal League president will now get a chance to prove his point. The Blaze are building a new ballpark. The privately financed venue is expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legends Set To Unveil New Logo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lexington Legends will have a new affiliate for the first time in franchise history when the South Atlantic League franchise opens next season. And beginning tonight, the Legends will have a new logo as well. The Legends will unveil their new logo this evening as part of a local fundraiser in downtown Lexington. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MLB Wades Into Politics With Political Action Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conor Glassey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Major League Baseball, the Fall Classic doesn&#8217;t just refer to Tigers vs. the winner of tonight&#39;s Cardinals-Giants game. It&#8217;s also about Democrats vs. Republicans. Many corporations and labor groups have Political Action Committees in place as a way to donate money to political candidates they feel will act in their best interests. Major League [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One-Game Playoff Would Air On TBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chances of baseball needing an extra game to set its postseason field dwindled last night after the Nationals and Tigers each secured division titles and the Athletics locked up at least a wild-card berth. But a Game 163 remains a possibility&#8212;the Orioles could catch the Yankees in the American League East, the Rangers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubs, Cards Highlight Midwest League Affiliation Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is coming to the Midwest League. Minor league and major league teams are going through their bi-annual renewal of affiliations this year, and stability has been the watchword at the higher levels, with one swap at Triple-A (Blue Jays to Buffalo, Mets to Las Vegas) and no changes in Double-A. Most teams have renewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swap complete: Mets to Vegas, Blue Jays to Buffalo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only change coming to the Triple-A landscape is now official. The Mets and Las Vegas 51s (Pacific Coast) announced a two-year player-development contract last night, and the Blue Jays and Buffalo Bisons (International) followed suit this morning by inking a PDC that will run through the 2014 season. A partnership between the Blue Jays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State College Switches To Cardinals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first change of the affiliation shuffle will reunite a pair of old friends. Short-season State College (New York-Penn League) announced it has signed a player-development contract with the Cardinals after spending the past six seasons with the Pirates. The deal is for two years and will run through the 2014 season. State College debuted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let The Affiliation Shuffle Begin!</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/09/let-the-affiliation-shuffle-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown to the affiliation shuffle will never be mistaken for the rush of the draft signing deadline, but major and minor league teams will be making important decisions about their player-development contracts in the coming days, particularly at the Class A level. The deadline for teams to renew affiliation agreements has passed, so free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Bachelor Pad&#8217; Winner Has Baseball Past</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/09/bachelor-pad-winner-has-baseball-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Conor Glassey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ali Fedotowsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s not often that 12th-round picks get $250,000, but Nick Peterson did it. It wasn&#39;t for what he did on the baseball field, however, but what he did on a reality television show. Peterson, a righthander who pitched two seasons in the Yankees system, won the ABC reality show &#34;Bachelor Pad&#34; last night, shocking the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern League Agrees To Move Team To Ottawa</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/09/eastern-league-agrees-to-move-team-to-ottawa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minor League Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliated Baseball may be on its way back to Ottawa after all. Just four months after a plan to relocate an Eastern League team to Ottawa for the start of next season unraveled, the city announced yesterday that it reached an agreement in principle with the EL to bring a franchise to town in 2014. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minor League Attendance May Come Up Short</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/09/minor-league-attendance-may-come-up-short/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attendance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the first three months of the season, minor league baseball seemed likely to shatter last season&#8217;s attendance mark and post its first increase at the gate in four years. As the final games of 2012 are played, however, it doesn&#39;t look like that will come to pass. According to unofficial attendance figures, minor league [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Isaac Ends New Orleans&#8217; Season</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/08/hurricane-isaac-ends-new-orleans-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Beat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Orleans Zephyrs&#39; long road trip is finally over. Unfortunately, so is their season. Pacific Coast League president Branch Rickey III said the decision wasn&#39;t easy, but in the end he decided to cancel New Orleans&#39; final four-game homestand against the Iowa Cubs, rather than force the Zephyrs to play a second straight home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yankees Ink Eight-Year Extension With Trenton</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/08/yankees-ink-eight-year-extension-with-trenton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Beat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Yankees&#39; player-development contract with Double-A Trenton was not set to expire for another two years, but that didn&#39;t stop New York from working out an eight-year extension with their Eastern League affiliate that will run through the 2022 season. It&#39;s a deal may that very well be the first of its kind. Teams are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubs-Kane County News Gets O&#8217;Conner&#8217;s Attention</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/08/cubs-kane-county-news-gets-oconners-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago fans weren&#8217;t the only ones to get worked up over this week&#8217;s news that the Cubs may have already agreed to move their low Class A affiliation from Peoria to Kane County in the Midwest League, and will sign a player-development contract with the Cougars when the affiliation shuffle begins in September. The Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are The Cubs Leaving Peoria?</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/08/are-the-cubs-leaving-peoria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finishing near the bottom of the Midwest League standings may not be the worst thing to happen to the Peoria Chiefs this season. Seeing their eight-year affiliation with the Chicago Cubs come to an end would certainly top that. And according to the Chicago Sun-Times, that&#8217;s exactly what the Cubs plan on doing when their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rochester Sticking With The Twins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then there was one. The Rochester Red Wings&#8217; two-year extension of its player-development contract with the Minnesota Twins late last week leaves the Buffalo Bisons as the only International League franchise without an affiliate lined up for next season. Buffalo&#8217;s status is unlikely to change before Sept. 16, when teams are allowed to begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scranton/WB Readies For A New Name</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/08/scrantonwb-readies-for-a-new-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is preparing to drop one of the most iconic names in baseball for a new one that promises to be a bit, well, less traditional. So long, Yankees. The Triple-A International League franchise, which is set to debut a new ballpark next season after spending all of 2012 on the road, announced late last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Paso Approves Ballpark Proposal</title>
		<link>http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/business/2012/06/el-paso-considers-ballpark-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Leventhal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Since this story was originally published, the El Paso city council approved a proposal to build a Triple-A ballpark. The city council voted 6-2 to partner with MountainStar Sports Group LLC on a $50 million downtown stadium to be built on the site of the current city hall. The group plans to finance the [...]]]></description>
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