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July 20, 2004

Selig: New parks to get All-Star Game priority

It's long been a tradition for baseball's All-Star Game to rotate each year between American and National League parks, but what's tradition in the face of rewarding taxpayer largesse? MLB supreme leader Bud Selig has indicated that, with the N.L. sporting five new parks that haven't yet hosted the game to the A.L.'s one, he might ditch the rotation to award more games to new stadiums. "In a perfect world, you would alternate NL and AL, but it's more important to reward franchises, I think, that really need to have the game because of their venue," said Selig. "There are so many great new ballparks, and that's the nice part." If hosting the game is a "reward," then presumably the people of Kansas City (last All-Star Game: 1973) and New York (1977) are being punished for their failure to build new facilities in the last 25 years.

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