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Scouting reports an online phenom for Cooperstown05 / 13 / 13The National Baseball Hall of Fame has generated a significant groundswell of digital traffic and publicity from its recent online release of scouting reports for more than 12,000 current and former big league players. The project is part of “Diamond Mines,” a new exhibit developed wi... Tags: Media |
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Weather costs Twins
The Minnesota Twins have suffered a revenue loss “deep into seven figures” and perhaps still growing because of a tough combination of snow and rain plaguing their home schedule thus far at Target Field. The Twins have postponed three games so far in 2013, two fewer than the first thr ...
Tags: Franchises
Nats to boost in-park network
The Washington Nationals have struck a multiyear deal with Comcast Business, a unit of Comcast Cable, to develop an improved high-speed data network at Nationals Park. The new, Ethernet-based network will support the club’s internal data needs, including the content on its main video board ...
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Nationals sign 22 deals
Buoyed by its new status as one of the elite teams in baseball, the Washington Nationals have recently signed 22 sponsorship deals, creating an aggregate annual revenue increase of more than 20 percent in the category. The renewals were particul ...
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The future of Apple's Passbook
There is little industry debate that mobile ticketing will soon be a major industry force, with mass rates of adoption perhaps arriving within five years. What is less clear, however, is the precise role that Apple’s Passbook will have in this forthcoming change. Apple announced Passbook la ...
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BiGR continues sports push
BiGR Audio, a California-based manufacturer of high-end electronics, has signed a multiyear license with the Collegiate Licensing Co., is nearing another with the rival Licensing Resource Group, and has expanded its existing line of Major League Baseball-licensed headphones, signaling its growing in ...
Big licensing checks for MLBers
Major League Baseball players received $131.8 million in checks from their union last year, more than $105 million of which had been withheld for several years prior to the union and MLB agreeing to a new five-year labor deal in November 2011. The 2012 annual report for the MLB Players Associatio ...
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Missile-tracking tech fuels stats
The Cleveland Cavaliers have begun to provide advanced statistical data from Stats LLC’s SportVU player motion tracking product for its fans, representing a new implementation of the product beyond its base in team operations. SportVU, based on Israeli optical missile-tracking technology, t ...
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MLB clubs look to follow Dodgers
Call it the latest shot heard ’round the world. When word emerged in late January that the Los Angeles Dodgers had reached a new $8 billion TV contract with Time Warner Cable to create a Dodgers-focused regional sports network, it sent shock waves through the sports and television ...
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Let's Go Reese's
The Hershey Co. brand Reese’s is the official candy partner of the NCAA and in the past has done a lot of the typical activation strategies: on-site presence at major events, sweepstakes, and title sponsorship of the college all-star game now held on the Friday of Final Four weekend. But se ...
Tags: In-Depth, World Congress of Sports
D'Backs: Having some fun
Nearly two months ago, in the height of the online craze around “Harlem Shake” videos, a more unusual variant came out of Phoenix. A typical spring training workout made a drop cut to Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick dancing wildly to the song’s electronic beat. Team Pres ...
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