Hawkins said when interleague play first started, the players were excited to see different ballparks.
Among the security topics that could be discussed are backpacks that fans bring into ballparks.
Those include creating a drug investigative unit and eliminating advance notice of drug-testing players at the ballparks.
Another potential benefit of getting into ballparks: Free advertising to fans who might be considering a new TV.
Spacious stadiums were torn down to make way for cozy, homer-friendly retro ballparks.
Some ballparks will get the new technology this year, while others will have to wait at least one season.
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Tim Schneider, editor of SportsTravel magazine, suggests they check with hotels located nearest the ballparks to snag a deal.
The closer, who is retiring after the season, is taking part in events like that in road ballparks this year.
Franchises in Tampa Bay and Oakland are desperate for new ballparks and without public support may be forced to relocate.
Major league ballparks are not standardized in size mainly for historical or local reasons, and remain non-standardized for practical and historical reasons.
But it would be nice to fewer television images of empty seats in the two ballparks as the Nats and Orioles vault upward.
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Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees set records for lowest attendance since their ballparks opened with another six clubs quite close to joining their ranks.
"New ballparks are going to pay big dividends for most teams, " says John Mansell, who covers sports for the research firm Paul Kagan Associates.
Yet attendance at ballparks went up during this period because disposable personal income (DPI) rose an average of 5.6% a year from 2004 through 2007.
All of it is preferable to being one of those sad, non-playoff arenas or ballparks where 70% of your supposed fans dress up as empty seats.
"Mobile data traffic is exploding, particularly in high-traffic areas such as Major League Baseball ballparks, " said Anand Chandrasekher , senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Qualcomm.
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New ballparks are the new Moneyball: 7 ot the last 10 WS championships have been won by teams with new parks, and the last four in a row.
As lights turn on and dust clears in ballparks across America today, we once again embark on the 7-month marathon known as the Major League Baseball regular season.
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The group is examining whether to have replay officials in booths at ballparks or at a central location, and whether to have umpires wear headsets, as soccer officials do.
As the Expos point out, local taxpayers, or at best bond-buyers, have paid 80% of the costs of the dozen big ballparks built in the United States in the past decade.
And yes, attendance is up at both ballparks.
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And as long as there are fairground grandstands on summer nights, as long as there are small-town ballparks with stages where the pitcher's mound should be, the singers will get to keep delivering the goods.
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