Sportvision installed three cameras at all 30 Major League ballparks.
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Quantcast ballparks Trump's July monthly traffic at around 2.1 million.
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"I do want a homer in all ballparks," Stanton said.
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This goes for scoreboards at major league ballparks as well.
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Our ballparks should be free of political partisanship and propaganda.
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Both ballparks are packed every night, and everybody is yelling.
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The hit would have been a homer in many ballparks.
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Soon it was being roared at ballparks around the country.
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The Astros' reception at opposing ballparks doesn't help the optics.
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"Most ballparks play pretty similar all the time," he said.
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Thousands were expected to demonstrate outside the city's major league ballparks.
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He now has eight career road homers at eight different ballparks.
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And baseball fans broiled at big-league ballparks across the country.
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More eye-catching, though, has been the atmosphere at the ballparks.
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The sandwich will be available nationwide, excluding airports and stadiums, and ballparks.
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In many cities, fewer and fewer black fans go to the ballparks.
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At the center of both ballparks' revivals has been Janet Marie Smith.
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"There's nostalgia at both ballparks," Red Sox second baseman Ian Kinsler said.
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In fact, new ballparks don't seem to make baseball franchises much more valuable.
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Rod Kennedy Jr. makes his living by manufacturing tiny tin replicas of ballparks.
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Fenway Park and Dodger Stadium are two of the oldest ballparks in baseball.
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Ballparks don't move, and sometimes the pattern of growth has left them behind.
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It played the rest of its home games at five other International League ballparks.
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Except the Red Sox depth had also imploded, albeit in smaller minor league ballparks.
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Minute Maid Park in Houston is among the ballparks that have a similar feature.
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He originally had planned only to scatter them in ballparks and other poignant spots.
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There are also several big-league ballparks he still wants to check off his list.
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It ranks No. 22 out of the 30 ballparks for scoring runs, according to ESPN.
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And if that's the case, the ballparks of America will be happy to serve you.
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Overall, the areas around ballparks had home values 15 percent higher than the greater metros.
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Here's a look at some of the most decadent desserts available at ballparks this season.
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There are an additional 41,181 seats at seven minor league ballparks within the same radius.
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Eight other ballparks have featured fewer triples over the last five years, according to Elias.
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I've played a few ballparks over the years: Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park and Dodger Stadium.
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Unlike the well-manicured U.S. ballparks, the field where Cacique Mara practices has no grass.
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Watching a baseball game will be safer in all major league ballparks during the 2018 season.
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In ballparks across America, in every sport, sports was a healing balm for a broken country.
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The program promoted responsible environmental stewardship for MLB, helping teams reduce their carbon footprints in ballparks.
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The company operates concessions at ballparks for the San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Rays and Seattle Mariners.
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Some American sportswriters grumbled that the marks were not equivalent, as Japanese ballparks tended to be smaller.
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You saw this in different areas, whether it was ballparks or the cruise ship industry or airplanes.
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He once did a spreadsheet-aided school presentation on how ballparks' field dimensions affect players' batting averages.
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And there are several large-scale models of classic ballparks past and present, commissioned especially for the museum.
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As vigilant as security is nowadays in ballparks there are still some things they can't quite protect against.
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Major League Baseball opened its season last week with a new safety measure at some of its ballparks.
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Nor have new ballparks been introduced into the mix that would have altered the home run numbers significantly.
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Smith said the goal at older ballparks was to be respectful of strictures but not bound by them.
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Much of the game's history can be traced through these five ballparks, which have all been torn down.
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Even more unusual was his chosen method: flushing them down public restroom toilets in the ballparks between innings.
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This deal is available when you order from any Shake Shack location except those in ballparks, stadiums, and airports.
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DraftKings also partnered with Major League Baseball to advertise in ballparks, while FanDuel signed partnerships with several NFL teams.
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Ballparks are private property and fans must adhere to the rules of the game just as do the players.
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Now he is believed to be the only person to have thrown one at all 30 major league ballparks.
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Expansion, smaller ballparks and better nutrition all played a part — but history, rightly, gave steroids most of the blame.
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In order to get fans in the door, baseball has elected to turn its ballparks into kitchens of horror.
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On taking over both the Royals and the Cardinals, Herzog was confronted with big ballparks carpeted in unholy Astroturf.
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Food service provider Aramark, for example, serves 2 billion meals each year, at schools, hospitals, ballparks, and office cafés.
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Statcast's cameras have captured volumes of hitting, pitching and baserunning data in ballparks throughout the major leagues since 2015.
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The answer is now a tail-wagging "yes" as teams are welcoming pups to major league ballparks around the country.
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The items were launched last week as app-only exclusives and are now available nationwide (excluding airports, stadiums, and ballparks).
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What about the fact that ballparks are smaller today and thus cozier for power hitters than they used to be?
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Baseballs at major league ballparks have injured more than 800 people since 2012, according to an analysis by NBC News.
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Even when ballparks have not been full, as in San Diego and Los Angeles, they have been full of life.
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If you lived in or had the means to travel to New York or one of seven other ballparks, great.
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Harper joins Ryne Sandberg and Todd Frazier as the only players to win the Home Run Derby at their home ballparks.
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And until this fall, you can visit 15 replica statues of Neil Armstrong's iconic spacesuit in MLB ballparks across the country.
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He'd haunt the ballparks and try to get close to players for no reason other than an obsession with the game.
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American pro wrestling outside WWE in the early 2000s was limited to high school gymnasiums and mostly empty minor league ballparks.
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In many ballparks, like Houston's, the fans are so close to the press box that it's not much of a drop.
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Another great example and you see it all across the league, people are reconfiguring ballparks to have those standup millennial areas.
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Stevens made occasional appearances at major league ballparks until she was 100, although she had become legally blind from macular degeneration.
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At the same time, labor unions organized picket lines and petition drives outside major league ballparks, collecting more than a million signatures.
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The Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals already have extended the netting in their ballparks as fears about fan safety have increased.
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Five cities — Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York — will prohibit the use of chewing tobacco at ballparks this season.
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TBD Kluber is 23-27 with a 21 ERA with 34 strikeouts and only three walks in his career at NL ballparks.
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Every week, our lawn displayed a different pattern from mowing: sometimes straight, other times diagonal, like the designs at major league ballparks.
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Then, he usually uses an additional four weeks of unpaid time off to go to more ballparks in pursuit of the baseball dream.
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Like many teams building new ballparks, the Twins were striving for precisely that feeling when they designed Target Field, which opened in 2010.
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Many teams drew their fences in, Thorn said, and future ballparks were built with smaller dimensions to enable more hitters to slug homers.
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As it turned out, the large food-vending companies, like Restaurant Associates, which handled ballparks and arenas, didn't want to take on Woodstock.
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" Major League Baseball in a statement Tuesday defended the safety of its ballparks by saying it had increased the "inventory of protected seats.
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According to Shake Shack's Instagram announcement, the new bun will be offered at every Shake Shack location except those located inside stadiums and ballparks.
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So she called ballparks in major cities, and the first one to agree was Safeco Field in Seattle, a city she had never visited.
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Latino attendance can be seen in other ballparks, including Minute Maid Park in Houston, but the scene at Dodger Stadium seems to stand apart.
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Ten of the 30 major league teams currently have netting in their ballparks that extends at least to the far ends of both dugouts.
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"I didn't understand why all these people were getting hurt in ballparks, and yet baseball wasn't regulating itself to fix the problem," Zlotnick said.
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That brought up rookie phenom Shohei Ohtani — who didn't start because there is no designated hitter in National League ballparks — as a pinch hitter.
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The All-Star Game, which is held at different ballparks each year, was last played in Washington, D.C. in 1969, according to The Washington Post .
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Injuries to fans at ballparks have become increasingly common, said Nathaniel Grow, an associate professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University in Bloomington.
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With walls at most other ballparks usually more than 400 feet away, the Green Monster has haunted pitchers and tortured outfielders for the last century.
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Lucroy pointed to recent changes at ballparks — like Petco Park, Citi Field and Marlins Park, where fences have all come in — as having an impact.
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The ballparks both have an inviting wall in left field — the celebrated Green Monster at Fenway and the somewhat notorious Crawford Boxes at Minute Maid.
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It is little different from those in most other ballparks, but for Aroldis Chapman it is filled with memories — poignant, intense and ultimately transformative ones.
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They may use them when opposing players are on base, or in opposing ballparks where they suspect illicit methods are being used to decipher signals.
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There is more data available today than ever before — more hardware available in the ballparks for detection and more software packed into laptops for analysis.
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The study found that 21 of 30 major-league stadiums were built since 1992, with many retro-style ballparks featuring seats much closer to the field.
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Kevin Cramer volunteered support on Wednesday for chain-link fences in facilities where the government is detaining migrant children, comparing their use to playgrounds and ballparks.
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Sports Business MINNEAPOLIS — Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, is one of those wondrous new ballparks that combine modern amenities with an old-timey feel.
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With high-speed cameras in all ballparks, teams can now look at data for signs of fatigue in a pitcher, such as a diminished spin rate.
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Dodger Stadium, which sits in Chavez Ravine in the hills just above downtown Los Angeles, is one of baseball's more pitcher-friendly ballparks — especially at night.
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He sleeps soundly — nine hours a night, he ballparks — and organizes the self-described "unemployed celebrity" chapter of his life around a series of workaday goals.
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Zlotnick, who lost a lawsuit against the club seeking damages that he is still appealing, has become an advocate for better safety regulations at the ballparks.
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Even the ones that are nostalgically modeled after old ballparks are built much higher, with upper decks that are usually stacked upon a layer of suites.
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In reflection, it was clear that he didn't necessarily appreciate it, like when ballparks organists would play "The Mexican Hat Dance" for his at-bat music.
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Ballparks are just another venue where pets are being encouraged to accompany their people, joining now-familiar sites like restaurants, shops, workplaces, classrooms and even some churches.
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Major League Baseball held a moment of silence for Ali at ballparks across the country, displaying pictures of appearances Ali made with their teams throughout his life.
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The 216-year-old Anderson adjusted to seeing road ballparks for the first time as he compiled a 24 ERA and 23 WHIP in seven away outings.
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But with three weeks remaining — including trips to homer-friendly ballparks in Philadelphia and Colorado — Stanton has a chance to pass Maris on the single-season list.
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The stadium would be the latest in a 30-year wave of major league ballparks that saw 24 of the league's 30 teams move into new homes.
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The plan includes increasing the number of days off, reducing travel time, improving transportation and hotel accommodations, and ensuring that ballparks meet M.L.B. proposals for enhanced standards.
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The publicly financed ballpark, which offered sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline, cost $34 million and was one of the most expensive minor league ballparks ever built.
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There's a lot of variables there — the home run-hitting approach; the ballparks we're playing in are smaller; the age of our position-player roster was the oldest.
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The home on wheels made stops at festivals, malls and ballparks, where company representatives handed out samples as people took pictures inside and marveled at the Spam souvenirs.
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"My sincerest applause goes to the New York Mets for taking this big step in extending protective netting at all of their ballparks," Espinal said in a statement.
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Before long, Ebbets Field was gone, too, one in a series of ballparks that nurtured major league baseball in New York City before succumbing to the wrecking ball.
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For many decades, screens at ballparks were restricted to the seats directly behind home plate, to shield fans from being hit by foul balls deflected right at them.
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I was watching the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers play in the World Series at Wrigley Field, generally recognized as one of most beautiful ballparks in the land.
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Two ballparks — Camden Yards and Angel Stadium — featured fewer triples than Rogers Centre last season, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, and three other parks had just as many.
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In the rest of the ballparks, including Yankee Stadium, the netting reaches only the beginning of the dugouts, leaving significantly more seats exposed to foul balls and shattered bats.
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City Councilman Corey Johnson, who, like the mayor, is a Boston Red Sox fan, said the law would "stop the flow of free advertising" of smokeless tobacco in ballparks.
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We've seen several startups currently working with baseball clubs — enhancing everything from a player's cognitive reactions to the ways in which your food is delivered to you at ballparks.
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He was a baseball fan, though, and he liked to hang around ballparks, where he sat near the dugout and chatted up players, some of whom joined him for dinner.
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While patio bars and children's play areas are common in many ballparks, the Yankees have struggled to connect with younger fans who have been loath to pay high ticket prices.
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At Fenway Park, the bullpens in right field provide some distance between the fans and the fielder, while a number of other ballparks, including Oakland's, have taller right-field walls.
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They removed 2,100 obstructed-view seats in center field over the winter, and created plazas — the kind of gathering spots in the outfield that have become popular at other ballparks.
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When Gomez leaves the bright lights of the Mexican ballparks and passes back into America, his primary job is stocking 7UP products on the shelves of grocery stores around Los Angeles.
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For so many of the rookies, who had toiled in Class AAA ballparks most of the season, seeing Yankee Stadium on this type of a night left them giddy as well.
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If the boos seemed perfunctory at most ballparks, they were often vigorous in Boston, especially when he was announced as a pinch-hitter in his first appearance after serving his suspension.
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At ballparks, five National League teams (Mets, Braves, Marlins, Rockies, Giants) and four American League teams (Yankees, Tigers, A's, Mariners) have partnered with CLEAR to let fans use the same service.
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Radar guns are a universal sight at ballparks these days, and every so often—probably by accident—someone flips the switch to make them operational hours before the game's first pitch.
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Up and down the state, fans will head to ballparks to see their favorite players, sample the latest food innovations, drink craft brews and take in some fresh air (weather permitting).
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That most teams have chosen to stage a pride day or night at their ballparks is not surprising, because thematic promotions to draw fans have long been part of baseball's culture.
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"Sunday Night Baseball" announcer Matt Vasgersian is under fire for mocking a bachelorette party at Wrigley Field on Thursday -- while on the air -- saying he hates seeing them at MLB ballparks.
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Yeah, MLB ballparks are featuring ALL THAT these days ... and now the craziest stadium food from baseball diamonds all over the country are heading to L.A. for a giant food fare.
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In National League ballparks, he is something of an awkward fit for the defensive-minded Cubs, who have to hope daily that his bat makes up for the sins of his glove.
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The Angels put on their own power display, getting home runs from Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and Albert Pujols, who became the sixth player to hit 100-plus homers in two ballparks.
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His solo home run in the sixth inning was Pujols' 22th homer at Angel Stadium, making him the 20th player in major league history to hit at least 100 in two ballparks.
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San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston passed bills last season that ban the use of smokeless tobacco at ballparks — including use by players — and New York City passed similar legislation this year.
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This especially goes at today's ballparks, which try their hardest to keep you distracted from the game—whether through fan experience apps, in-stadium entertainment, or absurd types and amounts of food.
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In recent years, as cameras have proliferated in major league ballparks, teams have begun using the abundance of video to help them discern opponents' signs, including the catcher's signals to the pitcher.
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But he has also been dogged by small injuries, and teams must consider how a player's statistics in Japan will translate to the majors, where seasons are longer and ballparks are bigger.
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He's run dough (and sauce and cheese) to campgrounds, ballparks, carnivals, boats, and cars stuck on the highway—and on Sunday, he added broken-down Amtrak trains to the list, the Washington Post reports.
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Terms of the agreement require the Mariners to meet an "applicable standard" of operating, maintaining and improving Safeco Field in a first-class manner measured against the top one-third of comparable MLB ballparks.
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" In a statement he said, "over the past few seasons MLB has worked with our clubs to expand the amount of netting in our ballparks...we will redouble our efforts on this important issue.
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Racist taunts and physical threats had to be endured — from antagonists bellowing from the grandstands of Southern ballparks in the minor leagues or from vile bench jockeys like Ben Chapman, the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
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I was really struck by ballparks and how now there's so many levels and so much space given to clubs, and the thousands of dollars that you have to pay to get these packages.
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" Mikolas did, but he said he missed the perks of the major league life: the modern ballparks, the charter flights, the upscale hotels — "those little creature comforts that make big league life pretty nice.
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Nearly two weeks into spring, a large swath of the nation may experience a final gust of winter Sunday and Monday, putting a damper on Opening Day festivities at ballparks in the Midwest and Northeast.
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The 10-episode comedy series, produced by Oso Studios, will follow the two brothers as they visit Minor League ballparks across the country, immersing themselves in the local culture and interacting with the different communities.
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The ones who plan their vacation time to take optimal advantage of the star-studded panels inside or just to visit the experiential "activations" that colonize ballparks and vacant lots throughout the city's Gaslamp District.
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Discouraged, he stuck the original blueprints of one of the national pastime's most revered, early 20th-century ballparks in a mailing tube under his bed, where they remained for most of the next 20 years.
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Major League Baseball Advanced Media, or MLBAM, is now the clear leader in this field, moving toward a monopoly of sorts because it has been granted permission to install radar and cameras in all ballparks.
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The dual-sport approach was abandoned by 323, and the vast majority of new ballparks have since emulated Fenway Park in Boston and Wrigley Field in Chicago — intimate, so-called jewel boxes from the 1910s.
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His upcoming radiation regimen will make traveling hard for a while, but when it's done perhaps they can fly out to watch post-season baseball at some of the ballparks Brent has long dreamed of visiting.
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Last year, Major League Baseball announced that all 30 ballparks were extending protective netting to at least the far ends of both dugouts -- that is, the ends farthest from home plate -- intending to enhance fans' safety.
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Shake Shack is celebrating the opening of its 100th restaurant by giving free burgers to the first 100 guests at all its locations worldwide (except those in ballparks and stadiums) starting at 10:30 a.m. Tues.
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Shake Shack (SHAK) is celebrating the opening of its 100th restaurant by giving free burgers to the first 100 guests at all its locations worldwide (except those in ballparks and stadiums) starting at 75:30 a.m.
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Former Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber, who gets the ball for the Indians on Friday, is coming off his best start of the season and has been dominant in National League ballparks throughout his career.
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Rockies rally late to fluster Familia, Mets NEW YORK — The Colorado Rockies earned two of their biggest wins of the season in different fashion — and in two different ballparks — in a span of less than 503 hours.
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Cespedes, the team's best hitter, returned to the starting lineup on Wednesday as the designated hitter, and the Mets had hoped to keep him there until early next week, when they will play in American League ballparks.
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Not all, but many major league teams perform the ritual every September of making (or "making") their rookie players dress up in so-called humiliating costumes and parading them through ballparks, airports, newspapers and now the internet.
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Brett Weber, a Yankees coaching assistant, said the team has raised the temporary netting along the lower stands for "four or five years now" and that, increasingly, he has seen similar screens used in other ballparks, too.
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For all of the Boston bling and Dodgers dollars, this World Series will play out before passionate fans, on opposite coasts, by franchises steeped in history in two of the majors' three oldest ballparks (sorry, Wrigley Field).
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Apple Pay allowed entry to more than 150 stadiums, ballparks, arenas and entertainment venues around the world with contactless tickets in 2019, and users could ride public transit in Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow, London and New York.
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The days of a Fenway or a Wrigley, two historic ballparks that are part of the fabric of their Boston and Chicago hometowns, embedded into them like an artful roof cornice or original tin molding, are largely over.
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They descend upon the ballparks of Florida and Arizona around the same time as the pasty Northern tourists, and like the fans, they are eager to greet their favorite players: Perhaps Jason Heyward and the Cubs should rejoice.
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This World Series, which the Red Sox led 22012-2350 as it shifted to Los Angeles for Game 0003 on Friday night, is the first to be held in two ballparks that are at least 2000 years old.
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So why has exit velocity, which doesn't really seem to tell us anything we can't see with the naked eye, spread so quickly, including to video scoreboards in several major league ballparks and the commentary on highlight shows?
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Joey Mellows, a 217-year-old teacher from Portsmouth, England, who quit his job to visit all 221 M.L.B. ballparks this summer, said that while he was wowed by the classic parks, nothing could match the Coliseum's atmosphere.
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HOUSTON — The warning signs came the night before when two heavily favored teams, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves, were each stunned in a deciding fifth game of a division series, losing in their home ballparks.
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Boston hasn't made any excuses yet, but there will be an opportunity this week because of a quirk in their schedule that has the Red Sox playing in four different ballparks in five days, and all against playoff contenders.
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If Mayor Bill de Blasio signs the bill the City Council just passed, by the end of the year, players will be banned from using smokeless tobacco in seven ballparks, almost 25 percent of those in the major leagues.
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The Commissioner's Office said when the first report came out that it would take several steps, including monitoring temperatures and humidity levels at ballparks; reviewing manufacturing specifications for baseballs, and formulating standards for how baseballs receive their mud rubdowns.
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" Asked, in the same AMA, what "ballpark" VR fans should expect the price of the Oculus Touch controller to be — which is now not due to ship til the second half of this year — Luckey responded: "No more ballparks for now.
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Even in this era of active shooter seminars and gun control debates, more than one-third of the country's state capitols lack the kinds of security measures that have become routine at many middle schools, museums and big-league ballparks.
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And so, fewer than a dozen times a year, at venues ranging from ballparks to parking lots, impeccably orchestrated teams of engineers, ice suppliers, snowmakers, crane operators, up riggers, down riggers, scaffold designers—you get the picture—do exactly that.
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In recent years, several of ballparks have been made "more fair," though always in the other direction; that is, fences have been lowered or drawn closer to the plate, almost entirely because of complaints from hitters on the home team.
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Kluber led in two advanced metrics: ERA+, which measures a pitcher's E.R.A. relative to the league and adjusted for ballparks, and fielding independent pitching, which measures a pitcher's ability to generate strikeouts while preventing home runs, walks and hit batters.
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Mookie Betts, Boston's Gold Glove right fielder, drifted over near the foul pole but could only watch as the ball landed a couple of rows deep in the seats — a routine out in most ballparks, but not in Yankee Stadium.
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They said that bearing the cost of paying players and coaches would be prohibitively expensive; that some teams are nowhere near a would-be opponent; and that the availability of some publicly owned ballparks would not fit the proposed schedule.
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SEATTLE — Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, said he did not expect teams to make changes to the protective netting in their ballparks this season, though he said he expected conversations to continue about whether netting should be extended.
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Advocate proposes an MLB compensation fund In 2018, Major League Baseball announced that all 30 ballparks were extending protective netting to at least the far ends of both dugouts -- that is, the ends farthest from home plate -- intending to enhance fans' safety.
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The enduring stars are the ballparks themselves, idiosyncratic Fenway Park and idyllic Dodger Stadium, rejuvenated old gems that not only present a yin and yang of ballpark design but stand as proxies for the eras and areas in which they were built.
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He is well-versed in the history of ballparks — he wrote a book on his own 30-park tour in 1998 — and argues that while multipurpose stadiums away from urban cores made sense during the 1960s suburb boom, they are now outdated.
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Mr. McDonald's first attempt, at a Pittsburgh Pirates game in 2009 at PNC Park, was met with a gust of wind, recalled Adam Boneker, 46, a friend who has accompanied Mr. McDonald on many of his trips to ballparks to dump the ashes.
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Since the opener in Orchard Park, N.Y., there have been outdoor games at distinctive ballparks like Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston and a frigid contest between the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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"As fans and followers of the game, it is vitally important for us to preserve and enhance the live baseball experience, while also ensuring everyone who visits our ballparks can do so safely," said Andrew Miller, the team's executive vice president of business operations.
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Major League Baseball extended protective netting last year Major League Baseball announced in 2018 that all 30 league ballparks were extending protective netting to at least the far ends of both dugouts -- that is, the ends farthest from home plate -- intending to enhance fans' safety.
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Since that incident, Manfred has called for baseball to "redouble" its efforts to ensure fan safety, and at least five teams, including the Yankees, have now stated they will further extend the netting in their ballparks so that more seats, and fans, are protected.
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A Brooklyn Dodgers fan who took a beating in a Pelham, N. Y., schoolyard in the 1950s defending his team's honor against partisans of the New York Yankees and Giants, he began making his living 21995 years later by manufacturing tiny tin replicas of ballparks.
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You'd figure that a toddler getting hit in the face would be the tipping point and there were signs on Thursday that maybe it will be, with three teams — Cincinnati, Seattle, San Diego — all saying they would extend the netting now in their ballparks.
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New York banning smokeless tobacco at ballparks, other venues "Everyone has a role to play -- governments, health-care providers, people with diabetes and those who care for them, civil society, food producers, and manufacturers and suppliers of medicines and technology are all stakeholders," the WHO says.
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Two United States senators raised questions on Tuesday about whether M.L.B. is doing enough to protect its fans from foul balls, writing a letter to Commissioner Rob Manfred urging him to release data that teams may be collecting on which seats are most vulnerable at their ballparks.
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Two United States senators raised questions on Tuesday about whether M.L.B. is doing enough to protect its fans from foul balls, writing a letter to Commissioner Rob Manfred urging him to release data that teams may be collecting on which seats are most vulnerable at their ballparks.
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His strikeout-to-walk rate — 22-to-22013 — is the best in history among pitchers with at least 73 starts, and he did it all in the A.L. East, taming its brawny hitters in small ballparks with a wide array of pitches and a knack for improvisation.
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The Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Rays announced on Wednesday they would extend the protective netting behind the dugouts in their ballparks in time for opening day, meaning all 30 teams have decided to exceed the recommendations for enhanced safety issued by Commissioner Rob Manfred in December 2015.
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Since then, other teams have followed the Twins' lead, and on Thursday, three other teams joined in, with the Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres all saying they planned to extend the netting in their ballparks to essentially match what the Twins were the first to do.
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It was stimulated by the steroid-fueled surge in home runs but also by a stadium-building boom that tapped into the nostalgia of quirky, prewar ballparks that came with the trappings of modern stadiums: luxury suites, broad concourses and concessions that expanded beyond hot dogs and beer.
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Five New York ballparks built in baseball's "modern" era, which began early in the 20th century — Hilltop Park (1903-23), the Polo Grounds (1911-63), Ebbets Field (1913-57), Yankee Stadium (1923-2008) and Shea Stadium (1964-2008) — seeded much of the game's history before being torn down.
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Nature was calling, and so was his obligation to his childhood friend and fellow Mets fan Roy Riegel, whose death nine years ago left Mr. McDonald, 56, vowing to honor their baseball bonds in an unconventional way: by disposing of Mr. Riegel's ashes in ballparks across the country.
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"Pitching in National League ballparks are bigger than the American League, especially in the east, and the defense behind me has allowed me to be more aggressive in the strike zone," said Nova, who has won both of his starts since the Pirates acquired him from the New York Yankees on Aug. 1.
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"This particular rule augurs back to when we didn't have Jumbotrons, you didn't have free Wi-Fi in the ballparks, you didn't have fans with smartphones and you didn't have athletes who were 6-7 and 250 pounds who were hitting balls with exit velocities of 130 miles per hour," Isaac said.
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Many have difficulty with short-term memories but with some prompting can summon long-term ones, such as detailed recollections of childhood visits to ballparks decades ago, said Mary Farkas, director of therapeutic arts and enrichment programs at the Hebrew Home, where baseball has also been used in art therapy and poetry workshops.
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As a result of this lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of current and former players, many cities would be in jeopardy of losing their Minor League Baseball teams, resulting in the elimination of tens of thousands of jobs nationwide, shuttering tax-payer funded ballparks and creating a void of affordable family-friendly entertainment.
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In 1992, the architect Der Scutt, who had designed Trump Tower, went so far as to solicit cost estimates on an Ebbets reconstruction from Lehrer McGovern Bovis, a firm that had served as project manager for the recently opened Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the first in a wave of new retro-style ballparks.
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MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) - While playing for Venezuela in baseball's Little League World Series in the United States last month, 12-year-old Adrian Salcedo ate tacos and Chick-fil-A, donned a virtual reality headset to envision himself hitting home runs in big league ballparks and marveled at the lush grass of the fields.
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Compared to a mere keyboard, which Castoldi had played at the Garden since 1989, the Roland, known generically as a theater organ, is a step up in class as well as a step back in time, to when ballparks and arenas were fitted with booming organs that provided warmer, richer, deeper sounds to sporting events.
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The extravagant evening was just one night of entertainment in the title insurance industry, an obscure corner of the real estate world that has spent tens of millions of dollars to win the favor and business of its clients at ballparks, Madison Square Garden luxury suites, exclusive country clubs, expensive steakhouses, even strip clubs.
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"I think that if the players win their case, and if Congress fails to act to protect the jobs of all the hard-working people who work at all the ballparks like Modern Woodmen Park (the River Bandits' stadium), there is a real chance that Major League Baseball will eliminate all the minor league teams that exist," he said.
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Freebies from Snyder's—specifically, bags of their Pretzel Pieces—will be given away at 8 ballparks throughout the country, including Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Fenway Park in Boston, Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Comerica Park in Detroit, Citi Field in New York, Chase Field in Phoenix, PNC Park in Pittsburgh, and Angel Stadium of Anaheim in Los Angeles.
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Illustration: Angelica AlzonaAs companies race to employ facial recognition everywhere from major league ballparks to your local school and summer camp, we face tough questions about the technology's potential to intensify racial bias; Commercial face recognition software has repeatedly been shown to be less accurate on people with darker skin, and civil rights advocates worry about the disturbingly targeted ways face-scanning can be used by police.
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The team's president, Reid Ryan, said in an interview during the 2017 playoffs that the Astros had visited other ballparks that had extended netting the previous season — in Minnesota, Kansas City, Washington and Texas — to measure distances from home plate to the stands and look at different types of netting to determine the best ways to keep fans safe while not detracting from their experience.
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Twenty-two teams have changed ballparks in the last 30 seasons, creating more revenue and a better fan experience than the A's enjoy in the creaky, charmless facility they share — for now — with the Raiders of the N.F.L. The A's have spent more than a decade trying to escape — prisoners at Alcatraz had better luck — but this time, they believe they will finally succeed.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Though immensely popular with tourists, the Staten Island Ferry has for decades been a tease for the many local cultural institutions at the far end of the voyage who have consistently failed — though not for lack of trying — to convince daily boatloads of sightseers to linger on the island long enough to partake of its unique museums, ballparks, historical sites, and nature preserves.
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He is 7-1 in 11 career starts in the Bronx, and as a 35-year-old veteran he has carved out a 20-win season and an All-Star selection the hard way — in the unforgiving American League East, where cozy ballparks like Boston's and Baltimore's, the short porch at Yankee Stadium and lineups built with sluggers can wreak havoc on a pitcher's E.R.A. and his confidence.
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The league decided, sensibly, that games held in NL stadiums would follow NL rules, requiring pitchers to hit for both clubs, while those in AL ballparks would apply the AL's policies and allow the two sides to use a DH. Even though NL teams are accustomed to including pitchers in their line-ups, they also employ position players in bench roles, who get a rare opportunity to start when the club visits an AL stadium.
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