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Sixteen Major League Baseball Teams and Ballparks Seek Cupholder Sponsors

By Anonymous

Lake Forest, IL January 18 2004--Sports Media, Inc. released the names of Major League Baseball teams and ballparks that are seeking cupholder sponsors for the 2004 season. Sponsors are expected to enter into multi-stadium, multi-year deals. Sports Media expects to sell out by the end February to meet Major League Baseball’s opening day.

Dan Kosth, of Sports Media, said “the cupholder sponsorship is a great branding opportunity. The fan is within arms reach and exposed to the ad space for up to 3 hours. It’s the only ad in the ballpark that provides a valuable service to the fan and a convenient place for there beverage. It’s the perfect example of Experiential Marketing. There are also minor league facilities available nationwide, so companies of any size can enter the game.”

Sixteen teams are seeking sponsors, packaged by Sports Media. These sponsorship packages consist of 150,000 seats and up, with value added services like ticket packages, public service announcements, hospitality events, kid’s clinic and player appearances. 3D souvenir cups for concession use are also available with active players listed along side sponsors brand. A complete list of value added services can be obtained at the Sports Media website; www.buysportsmedia.com

The Cupholder Sponsorship and advertising medium has proven to be one of the most appealing and effective ways to reach new customers and build your brand. Cupholders offer high visibility and exposure; you have a captive audience for a minimum of 2 to 4 hours per event. Cupholders build relationships directly with consumers, team, facility and other sponsors.

It's a great place to gain media attention. With multiple impressions initiated by beverage consumption, sponsors will have the ability to further reach consumers creating brand loyalty and additional promotional campaigns. Cupholders offer cost saving multi-facility sponsorship through one-stop shopping along with other valued added services.

The teams lacking cupholders and/or sponsors are; Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, L.A. Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Texas Rangers. Online media kits are available on the company’s web site or by calling (877) 266-0042.



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FRED CLAIRE JOINS BULLPEN BASEBALL PARTNERS

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    FRED CLAIRE JOINS BULLPEN BASEBALL PARTNERS

    Former Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Vice-President Fred Claire has joined the investment group Bullpen Baseball Partners as a consultant.

    Bullpen Baseball Partners is an investment group that plans to acquire Minor League Baseball teams (web site: www.BullpenBaseballPartners.com).

    The announcement of Claire’s role was made by Kurt Colicchio, one of the principals of the company. Colicchio is a minority owner of the Yakima Bears, a team in the Northwest League.

    “The objective of Bullpen Baseball Partners is to acquire minor league teams whose value and annual operations may be enhanced by the sports business expertise of the principals and consultants of the company,” said Colicchio. “Fred Claire served as a member of the Dodger front office for 30 years and he brings a great deal of experience and expertise to our company.”

         Colicchio said that Jim McCurdy, president of the Pioneer League with more than 17 years of experience in professional baseball, also would serve as a consultant to Bullpen Baseball Partners.

    Claire joined the Dodgers in 1969 and advanced from publicity director of the team to the position of Executive Vice-President with responsibility for player personnel decisions and baseball operations.

    In a distinguished career with the Dodgers, Claire served the team as publicity director; vice president of public relations, promotions and marketing; Executive Vice President in charge of day-to-day operations; and Executive VP in charge of player personnel. Claire was saluted as Major League Baseball’s “Executive of the Year” in l988 as the Dodgers won the World Series.

    Since his departure from the Dodgers in June of 1998, Claire has maintained an active schedule as an instructor at the University of Southern California and as a consultant for SportsTrac Systems of Boulder, Colorado. Claire also writes a weekly column on baseball for SportsTicker.

    McCurdy is a member of Minor League Baseball’s Council of League Presidents. He is a past member of the Minor League Baseball Board of Trustees, and he served as mediator of the Minor League Constitutional Convention in 1992 for the restructure of the Minor League Baseball governing body.

McCurdy currently serves as a manager of the LLC operating the Yakima Bears. He is a Professor of Law at the Gonzaga University School of Law and among the classes he teaches is one on sports law, and he is the co-author of Sports Law, 4th ed. (2000), which focuses upon legal issues facing professional and amateur sports.

For more information: info@bullpenbaseballpartners.com


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The Mr. Baseball Foundation Will Raise Money for a New Monument at Oahu Cemetery in Honolulu, Hawaii

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Seattle, WA August 13, 2004 -- Alexander Joy Cartwright, IV, Founder of the Mr. Baseball Foundation and CEO of MR Baseball LLC will be asking the Hawaiian public for funds to raise a monument at the gravesite of his ancestor Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. to acknowledge his Great, Great Grandfather’s contribution to baseball. Cartwright's gravesite at Oahu Cemetery is visited by hundreds of people each year, yet there has never been a formal marking that indicates his contributions to Hawaiian society and involvement with baseball's beginnings.

“This new monument will sit next to the existing headstone and will bare the words of Alick’s Hall of Fame Plaque in Cooperstown NY. Forever will the people of Hawaii and visitors know that Alick was both a great statesman of Hawaii and the “Father of Baseball”

The website to donate to is http://www.mrbaseball.com/fundraiser.php

Oahu Cemetery http://www.oahucemetery.org/history.html

The monument is scheduled for completion in 2006 with a ceremony scheduled around April 17th 2006, Alick’s Birthday.

Contact: Alexander Joy Cartwright, IV
The MRBaseball Foundation
3106 Sumner Tapps Highway East
Unit A PMB 126
Sumner, WA 98390
877-551-1023; 253-640-6039 (cell)
alex@mrbaseball.com
www.mrbaseball.com




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