“The line I use and nobody has ever contested it is, ‘No city in America has come as far as fast as Oklahoma City,’” said Mayor Mick Cornett. “The ballpark was the beginning.”
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Redhawks rebranded
After new ownership in September, OKC’s Triple-A baseball gets a new name.
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Cover story: Take me back to the ballgame
(Cover: Christopher Street) “Heavens no,” she said. “I never even thought about it.” An interesting series of events, however, led her to working for the Oklahoma City 89ers baseball team in the mid-1970s and eventually to positions in management and then as owner of the team, twice. People have played baseball — from loosely organized […]
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The windup
credit: RedHawks The Houston Astros are expected to be one of the weakest teams in Major League Baseball this season. But the Oklahoma City RedHawks, Houston’s Triple-A affiliate, could be one of the best. Opening their home season Friday against Memphis, the RedHawks feature an experienced pitching staff — and that very well may be […]
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Players of the Caribbean
Jimmy Paredes covering second courtesy: Oklahoma RedHawks No, it’s not an official name, but players and managers around the league know well of the pipeline of talent that stretches from the Caribbean to the U.S. and Canada. In that 1984 season, Hightower remembers two Dominican coaches and no less than 20 players on the roster. […]
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Ballpark naming a balk
Not the Newcastle Casino Lose Your Money Park, it turns out. That illadvised idea lasted less than 24 hours, but it still seems we are doomed to stick the “Chickasaw” label on the park, which has as much to do with baseball as if we’d named it for Snooki. From the moment the ballpark opened […]
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Name of the game
Brad Gregg Pete Rose was banned from baseball for gambling on the game. Suffice it to say, the national pastime and gambling haven’t made for the most harmonious of bedfellows. So imagine our surprise when the Oklahoma City RedHawks announced on April 4 that its ballpark would bear the name of a casino. For an […]
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Take me out to Newcastle …
So imagine our surprise, then, that the Oklahoma City RedHawks ballpark is now named for a casino. For an undisclosed sum, the Chickasaw Nation purchased naming rights to the Bricktown ballpark, slapping on the name of Newcastle Field at Bricktown in honor of its gaming center in the rustic hamlet of Newcastle. An Oklahoma City ballpark […]
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Grand-slam grub
Upstairs, in the suites, the 1 percent will be dining on refined eats, away from the rabble. Delicacies, like the El Jimador Shrimp Shooters (think spicy individual shrimp cocktails), will be lowered into their mouths, as if they were emperors. Maybe some of them are: Emperors like baseball, too. Entrées are ordered for a crowd, […]