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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Reggie Jackson joins as ‘deeply personal' partner for new NLBM hotel
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hall of Fame outfielder Reggie Jackson, also known as 'Mr. October', has joined on as a founding legacy partner for the new Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Hotel, according to a release from Grayson Capital. The Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel in Kansas City's 18th and Vine District will feature an upscale restaurant, rooftop bar, a cultural partnership platform and more as a 30,000 square foot expansion of the museum. It's all part of a new, cultural destination known as the Negro Leagues Baseball Musuem Campus. Frank White shares stadium discrepancy between county, KCMO and MO Jackson described the partnership as 'deeply personal' as the legendary ball player has personal connections to both KC and NLBM. 'Returning to Kansas City, where my MLB career began—and helping honor the Negro Leagues, where my father Martinez Jackson played for the Newark Eagles—is deeply personal,' said Jackson. 'This hotel will celebrate the greatness of those who came before me and inspire the generations to come.' The release goes on to say that Jackson's involvement will include driving awareness, fostering generational ties to baseball's historic players and advancing the project. Jackson is focused on helping NLBM impact both the KC and baseball communities throughout the future. Watch FOX4 News free on streaming TV devices by downloading WDAF+ Reggie's involvement is a significant addition to our project. His connection to the Negro Leagues is deep and meaningful, and his voice will elevate our mission to educate and inspire through the game of baseball,' echoed NLBM President Bob Kendrick. The hotel and campus will support both the continuing investments in the 18th and Vine District as well as the cultural movement surrounding the NLBM. For more information on the NLBM and its new developments, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Jazz Chisholm Jr. Smiles His Way Through A Smooth Return For The New York Yankees
New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. follows through on a single during the fifth inning of a ... More baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Jazz Chisholm Jr. wore a wide smile throughout his first postgame interview as an active player for the New York Yankees in over a month and regaled a captive audience with various about hitting homers in his dreams and even referencing something Reggie Jackson told a coach about hitting a homer into the short porch at Yankee Stadium. 'My story is that I've hit 1,000 home runs in my dreams, so I had to know that one was going,' Chisholm said after Tuesday's 3-2 win over the Cleveland Guardians. He said that after quipping about going 2-for-3 instead of a perfect night at the plate that also included a single to end an early no-hit bid. 'Honestly, I pictured going three-for-three,' Chisholm said with a sly grin. 'But I'll take a two-for-three. This is how I wanted to start my comeback.' He wore those expressions after homering as a third baseman, something the Yankees did not necessarily envision when they convened for spring training in February, roughly four months after their frustrating World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Chisholm played 29 games at second base before injuring his oblique in Baltimore. Along the way, circumstances popped up that sent him back to third base, a position he never appeared at until his 45-game stint following his trade from the Miami Marlins last July. He was pressed into playing a new position with a new team because Gleyber Torres was entrenched at second base. Even while Torres was producing somewhat respectable numbers, it was apparent the Yankees were not going to try to retain him in free agency. When Torres inked a one-year deal with the Detroit Tigers in late-December, second base was Chisholm's. At that point DJ LeMahieu was still recovering from his latest injury and Oswaldo Cabrera was handling third base adequately after making five errors in April. The first sign something might change was LeMahieu getting time at second base during his rehab assignment. The second was an unfortunate circumstance when Cabrera broke his ankle scoring a run in the ninth inning of an 11-5 win on May 11 at Seattle. New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. celebrates with teammates after hitting a home run during the ... More seventh inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Cabrera's injury seemed to send the chain reaction of landing Chisholm back at third. As he headed out on a rehab assignment manager Aaron Boone instructed him he would be a third baseman and Chisholm went along no questions asked. 'I really thought I was done at third base,' Chisholm said while smiling throughout the line of questioning 'I'm not going to lie to you. I didn't think I was going to see it. I thought I left my career over there with a good stamp, you know? But I guess we're back again. We got to shine again. We can't let that reputation go down at third base.' Chisholm's reaction is about as team-first as it gets but also contrast some of the negative about things that were mentioned about him with the Marlins, whom he debuted with in the 2020 season. The Yankees certainly did their vetting on him and obviously heard different and would certainly be pleased with how Chisholm handled being informed he was a third baseman for the second time in less than a year. 'I just want to win,' Chisholm said. 'I want a ring. All I think about is being a team guy. I want to help my team win and this is my favorite organization I've ever been a part of.' It also is a contrast to the struggles the Red Sox seemed to encounter with nudging Rafael Devers off third base. They nudged him to designated hitter after signing Alex Bregman to play third base and they tried to convince him about first base when Triston Casas was lost for the season last month. It also is a contrast to the communication aspect of things. The Yankees easily communicated their needs to Chisholm while the Red Sox struggled to get their message across to Devers. As for the Yankees, the message is crystal clear, they are glad Chisholm's smooth play is back whether it involves wearing a second baseman's glove or a third baseman's mitt. 'He's just so smooth and has such a great arm,' Chisholm said. 'You can play him wherever you want.'
The Guardian
01-04-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
The A's settled into their new home in Sacramento. The result was familiar
It could have been worse for the Athletics. Before they headed west to Oakland in 1968, their characterful former owner, Charlie Finley, threatened to move them from Kansas City to a cow pasture in the tiny town of Peculiar, Missouri. Now they are in a place you might call Limbo, California – also known as the home of the Pacific Coast League's Sacramento River Cats. It's a staging post for Major League Baseball's most contentious franchise after the burning of their Bay Area bridges left them needing somewhere to play ahead of a planned relocation from Oakland to Las Vegas. The A's evoke 70s nostalgia thanks to three successive World Series titles from 1972 to 1974, their distinctive green and gold colours and icons such as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers. And they are admired by analytics obsessives for the Moneyball innovations in the 2000s under the front-office leadership of Billy Beane. Now they are symbols of executive dysfunction and geographical confusion. The brand plays on – but don't call them the Oakland Athletics anymore. They're not officially the Sacramento Athletics, either. Just the Athletics or the A's. Players don't have a city name emblazoned on the front of their shirts but wear a patch with an image of Sacramento's Tower Bridge on their right sleeve and a Las Vegas emblem on the left arm. With an outfield hoarding promoting Las Vegas near a banner hailing the team's nine World Series championships dating back to 1910 – when they were the Philadelphia Athletics – and a handful of fans in suddenly-retro Oakland gear, it feels like this is a franchise in flux, its identity addled by ownership's wanderlust. Sutter Health Park is the site they will share for at least the next three seasons with the River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The River Cats are run by Vivek Ranadivé, who also controls the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Sacramento, an often-overlooked city that was close to acquiring an MLS team but brought down in 2021 when seemingly clear on goal, would like another major-league outfit to boost its profile. Though the A's do not want to stick around for long, the 25-year-old venue has been upgraded, with bigger dugouts and clubhouses, better video and sound systems and facilities in the bullpens so that relievers can, well, relieve themselves. But it clearly remains a minor-league stadium, pleasant but petite, with its low-slung stand, grassy tree-lined picnic slope, kids' playground and clubhouses accessed via the outfield. Still, the buzz from crowded concourses and crammed seating areas in Monday's home-away-from-home opener was palpable; and, for this team, unusual. With a capacity of about 13,000 and evident enthusiasm in the Californian capital, an 80-mile drive from Oakland with a regional population of about 2.5m, the A's are very likely to better last year's league-worst average attendance of 11,528. In 2028 the A's intend to move to a new $1.75bn ballpark on the site of the former Tropicana Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The club released renderings last year of a 33,000-capacity ballpark. With the razzle-dazzle the location demands, the design boasts swooping silver curves and shimmering green illuminations, resembling the Gateway Arch on St Patrick's Day or the Sydney Opera House if it were slathered in pesto. The MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, has made progress in speeding up games but stadium negotiations roll at their own pace: however long it takes billionaire team owners and property developers to persuade politicians to fork out taxpayer funding for new venues. Or not: this transfer completes a devastating triple don't-play for the city of Oakland: the NFL's Raiders left for Vegas in 2020 and the Golden State Warriors relocated across the water to San Francisco in 2019. The A's are not the only MLB team in a minor-league park this year, with the Tampa Bay Rays borrowing the New York Yankees' spring-training facility because Tropicana Field was damaged by Hurricane Milton. While that was a natural disaster, this problem was man-made. The club has been owned since 2005 by John Fisher, heir to the Gap retail fortune and accused of wilfully making the A's unfashionable in order to make the switch to Nevada more palatable as their 60s-era multi-purpose stadium in Oakland, the Coliseum, crumbled and no deal was reached with city officials. He denies that claim and has insisted that 'we worked as hard as possible for six years to find a solution in Oakland.' Fisher asserted to reporters on Monday that his hand was forced because 'our lease was ending … and there was not really a legitimate offer on the table to extend'. Still, last year the A's payroll was $66.5m, the lowest in MLB by more than $20m. The New York Mets led the league with $333m. The A's last made the playoffs in 2020 and have endured a losing record for the past three seasons. This year's payroll is $75m, above only the Chicago White Sox and Miami Marlins. The club hopes to begin ballpark construction by the middle of this year. Until the new palace is finished, what happens in Vegas stays in Sacramento. A short walk from downtown, Sutter doesn't have under-seat cooling like the planned new climate-controlled arena. That feature would surely be appreciated in Sacramento in July when the average daily high is 35C (95F). Monday, though, was chilly and blustery, and the A's were embarrassingly crushed 18-3 by the Chicago Cubs following a tribute to the late Hall of Famer, Rickey Henderson. This was the most runs allowed by a team in a home opener for a hundred years, according to Sportradar. Many fans left long before the end, though the atmosphere remained upbeat. A man hawking 'F*** Fisher' T-shirts on the sidewalk seemed to find few takers; nor was much dissent evident inside the ballpark save for a 'sell the team' chant that briefly erupted after the contest became a blow-out. Most attendees were more interested in celebrating the team's arrival in Sacramento than mourning its exit from Oakland. Among the loudest cheers were in praise of the bat boy when he thwarted a drone. Some 175 years ago, fortune-seekers flocked to Sacramento to chase the gold rush. These A's are only passing through in the hope of finding more glittering rewards elsewhere. But for the next few years the city with a landmark bridge may prove an adequate home for a club in transition. 'I think we recognise the need for a temporary home until we get to where we're going and I think we are fully ready and fully prepared to embrace this as our home for the next three years, both this stadium and this city, and to make the very best of it. It's going to be a unique environment,' outfielder Brent Rooker told reporters. 'I thought the energy [from fans] was great,' A's manager Mark Kotsay said after the game. A sustained run of bad performances, however, would surely curdle the mood. 'Not a good showing on our first night,' Kotsay conceded.
