Big crowds at the College World Series and a well-attended outdoor hockey event could put Omaha’s TD Ameritrade Park in the black for the first time. The business plan behind the $131-million ballpark, built expressly to house the College World Series, is a little wonky: the NCAA gets a huge guaranteed chunk of the revenues, as […]
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SIU pitching $4.9 million ballpark renovation
Southern Illinois University is pitching a $4.9-million renovation of Abe Martin Field — Ancient Abe, as it’s known locally — that would add a new grandstand and take out some bleachers that came from the original Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis. Abe Martin Field is the oldest ballpark in the Midwest Missouri Valley Conference, and […]
TD Ameritrade Park opens with no issues
Bad weather dampened the open-night crowd at Omaha’s TD Ameritrade Park to less than the anticipated sellout, but the game between Creighton and Nebraska found everything in the ballpark in good working order in plenty of time before the College World Series. The temperatures were in the 30s with a nasty wind. A crowd of […]