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BOSTON, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Gosling's of Bermuda and the Boston Red Sox announced today that they have reached a multifaceted corporate partnership agreement, making Gosling's the "Official Rum of the Boston Red Sox". Gosling's will also have their logos and marks displayed at Fenway Park, the 98 year old home of the Boston Red Sox and the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. Financial terms were not disclosed. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100401/NE80023 )...
BOSTON and MARYSVILLE, Ohio, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Red Sox fans can have a little piece of Fenway Park in their own backyard this spring for the first time ever. The Scotts Company has teamed with Dave Mellor, director of grounds for the Boston Red Sox, to develop products for homeowners with the same Scotts fertilizer technology and actual grass seed varieties used at Fenway Park, as part of a new multi-faceted partnership with Major League Baseball and the Red Sox. "On behalf...
With pitchers and catchers having recently reported to spring training, once again Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor at NJIT, has applied mathematical analysis to compute the number of games that Major League Baseball teams should win in 2010. The Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers should all repeat as winners in their divisions, while the Atlanta Braves will take the wild card slot in the National League (NL), says Bukiet.In the American League (AL), the...
NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, announced today the results of online voting in its eighth annual This Year in Baseball Awards during a live hour-long video webcast from its New York City studios. The voting saw a record 12 million votes cast as the top players and moments from the 2009 season were chosen from 14 different categories, as well as a new honor, none of which were restricted to individual League affiliation. "These...
BOSTON, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- It's the off-season, and Wally the Green Monster has more ways to spend it on JetBlue Airways (Nasdaq: JBLU)! With 32 places to go and up to 68 daily flights from Boston, the leading airline at Logan International Airport and the Red Sox today announce the "Where's Wally Jetting?" sweepstakes at www.whereswallyjetting.com. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090217/NY71475LOGO-b ) Today through Sunday, January 31, 2010, each week the...
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- There is a growing baseball undercurrent surrounding a man who may be forcing the next great changes to developing winning MLB organizations. Some supporters call it a "Nostradamus-like" intangible prophetic intuition and detractors call it just luck, but after two recent books that correctly called out the winning formula for winning teams and also-rans in 2008 (The Official Book on the Business of Baseball General Management) and 2009 (Street Smart...
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ --The 2009 Fall Classic was the searing face-off many had hoped for -- the defending World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies against the New York Yankees. Eighty-six years after opening the original Yankee Stadium in 1923 with their first World Series title, the Yankees celebrated their inaugural season in the new Yankee Stadium with a record 27th championship. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091116/LA12057-a) (Photo:...
Minnesota and Detroit will engage in a one-game playoff for the AL Central championship Tuesday to complete the major league post-season lineup. The Twins, who caught the Tigers with a late-season surge, will be the only team ever to engage in a one-game playoff in back-to-back seasons. Last season, the Chicago White Sox beat Minnesota in a similar playoff. Because of the extra playoff game each year, Minnesota will also be the only team in major league history to play 326 regular season...
Jed Lowrie's first career grand slam Sunday led the Boston Red Sox to a 12-7 win over Cleveland and a four-game sweep to end the regular season. Lowrie's two-out slam, his second homer this season, capped a five-run sixth and put Boston in front 12-6. J.D. Drew hit two solo homers, Dustin Pedroia had a two-run blast, Jason Bay and Alex Gonzalez had one RBI apiece, while George Kottaras added two hits for the Red Sox, who face the AL West-champion Los Angeles Angels in the Division Series...
Alex Rodriguez homered twice in a 10-run sixth inning for seven RBI Sunday, leading the Yankees in a 10-2 rout of Tampa Bay. The veteran slugger belted a grand slam and a three-run homer, giving him 12 straight seasons with at least 30 homers and 100 RBI. The seven RBI in one inning established an American League record. He reached the plateau despite missing the season's first month while recovering from hip surgery. One of two hits by Johnny Damon was a two-run double. One run scored on an...
