Coors holds the naming rights to Coors Field in Denver, Colorado, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team.

The Bats play their home games at Louisville Slugger Field ; the naming rights for the stadium were purchased by Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of the famous Louisville Slugger baseball bat.

In 2003, the Ohio Buckeye Local High School in Rayland ( which had since absorbed Warren Consolidated ) honored him by naming their new baseball field after him, placing a monument behind home plate in recognition.

Japan Dome by naming rights, a baseball field located in Fukuoka, Japan, the home stadiam of Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

In 1998, the company purchased the naming rights to the baseball stadium in downtown Detroit, home to the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball.

Ford Frick, then Commissioner of Baseball, vetoed the name because of public relations concerns over naming a ballpark after a brand of beer -- an ironic stance, given all baseball clubs ' significant revenues from beer sales.

The minor league baseball stadium in Memphis was christened Tim McCarver Stadium in ; it was replaced by a new downtown stadium ( named AutoZone Park in a naming rights arrangement ) in.

Lucy is upset about hurting her arm playing baseball and starts naming people she will sue from Abner Doubleday to Babe Ruth to finally Willard Mullin-to which Charlie Brown, obviously shocked, replies " Willard Mullin?

In 2002 the Houston Astros baseball team sold the naming rights for their venue, subsequently named Minute Maid Park, and the company now owns 8. 5 % of the team.

Fifth Third Bank also owns the naming rights to two other minor league baseball stadiums ; Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, Michigan, near Grand Rapids, and Fifth Third Bank Ballpark in Kane County, Illinois as well as a basketball arena on the campus of the University of Cincinnati.

On February 24, 2011, a Cook County court ruled the Flyers could be evicted, ordered the now defunct team to pay the back rent, and the naming rights contract was terminated when there was no professional baseball played in the park in 2010.

Kobe Baseball Stadium is the first baseball park in Japan to install naming rights.

See Spanish naming customs ) to just José Uribe because, as he put it, " There are too many Gonzálezes in baseball!

Furthermore, many keen sports fans in the USA may actually resist naming which team sport in particular is their favorite, instead preferring to avidly follow throughout the year whichever particular team sport is on its specific playing season: baseball ( and to a lower extent soccer ) in the summer, pro and college football in autumn and winter, and basketball during the late winter and NCAA college basketball championships in March ( called the " March Madness ") followed by the succeeding NBA playoffs in the spring, or ice hockey in the late winter up to the playoffs and Stanley Cup finals in June.

The field was renamed Perfect Game Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium when Perfect Game USA, a baseball scouting company based in Cedar Rapids, bought the naming rights to the field in March 2009.

Penn Traffic owned the naming rights for nine baseball seasons of P & C Stadium.

However, due to the continuing problems with the subprime loan industry, Ameriquest has announced that it will not sponsor the # 16 past the 2007 season, and, judging by the end of the naming rights deal for the baseball park ( see below ), this deal could be terminated earlier.

* From 2004 to 2007, Ameriquest owned the naming rights to the home stadium of the Texas Rangers baseball team.

When CBC was denied a new licensing agreement with MLBAM ( they had acquired the rights from the baseball players ' association ) for its fantasy baseball game, CBC filed suit.

WTCG acquired rights to telecast the Atlanta Braves baseball games in 1973.

Venevisión held the broadcasting rights to Venezuelan baseball games during the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 baseball seasons.

* Rachel Robinson, b. 1922, widow of baseball great Jackie Robinson and civil rights activist.

In 1975, a federal civil rights agency warned a Phoenix, Arizona school that its end-of-year father-son and mother-daughter baseball games were illegal according to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

After the 1965 season, the team's franchise rights were turned over to famed baseball player Jackie Robinson and became the " Brooklyn Dodgers ," which lasted one season.

* January 29 – baseball signs a six-year All-Star game deal for TV and radio rights for $ 6 million

In late 1995, professional baseball player Curt Schilling, who was a devoted player of ASL, separately also tried to buy the rights to ASL.

Also in 1947, Chandler sold the rights to broadcast the World Series on the radio for $ 475, 000 ; he used the money from the contract to establish a pension fund for baseball players.

The unsettled deal almost caused National Telefilm Associates to reconsider its decision to sell the station altogether, and NTA made plans to go forward: WNTA-TV made a play to acquire broadcast rights for the New York Mets baseball team for its inaugural 1962 season.

As part of the creation of 2K Sports, Take-Two acquired from Sega the rights to the ESPN 2K sports games created by Visual Concepts ( football and basketball ) and Kush Games ( baseball and hockey ); when announced, Take-Two renamed the franchise to omit " ESPN " from the titles.

Most often, however, the main reward of fantasy games is bragging rights or pride in the participants ' ability to assess baseball talent.

During this period, baseball card manufacturers generally obtained the rights to depict players on merchandise by signing individual players to contracts for the purpose.

The language of these contracts focused particularly on the rights to sell cards with chewing gum, which had already been established in the 1930s as a popular product to pair with baseball cards.

Philadelphia Gum then secured the NFL rights for 1964, forcing Topps to go for the AFL and leaving Fleer with no product in either baseball or football.

As the market for football brands was being quickly taken by EA, Take-Two Interactive responded by contacting the Major League Baseball Players Association and signing a deal that granted exclusive third-party major-league baseball rights ; a deal not as restrictive, as first-party projects were still allowed.

In April 1975, Fleer asked for Topps to waive its exclusive rights and allow Fleer to produce stickers, stamps, or other small items featuring active baseball players.

Fox chose not to renew their rights to the Division Series, which went to TBS as part of its new baseball contract.

Telus Field ( nicknamed the Phone Booth ) is a baseball stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Telus Field held the IBAF World Cup Women's baseball in the summer of 2004, as well as the CFL all stars charity softball game.

With a seating capacity at 9055, Telus Field is the second largest minor league baseball stadium in Canada after the Ottawa Baseball Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario.

Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Costas, along with Tony Kubek, was calling the Saturday baseball Game of the Week from Chicago's Wrigley Field.

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

In 1989, the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field, Don Zimmer's Cubs were led by a core group of veterans in Ryne Sandberg, Rick Sutcliffe and Andre Dawson, who were boosted by a crop of youngsters such as Mark Grace, Shawon Dunston, Greg Maddux, Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton, and Rookie of the Year Runner-Up Dwight Smith.

Fenway Park is one of the two remaining classic parks still in use in major league baseball ( the other being Wrigley Field ), and both have a significant number of obstructed view seats, due to pillars supporting the upper deck.

* Field of Dreams, a 1989 film in which heaven is symbolized by a baseball field.

Brookside Park, situated next to the Rose Bowl, features a baseball diamond and stadium named Jackie Robinson Field.

Averting the spotlight from Carlos Beltran's return to Citi Field, Santana turned a routine game into a moment in baseball lore and Mets history.

The Yankees ' transfer of the Richmond club to Toledo in 1965 restored professional baseball to Toledo ( or to be technical, Maumee-the Hens played their home games in the Toledo suburb until the 2002 opening of Toledo's downtown ballpark, Fifth Third Field ).

At the time the team played in Braves Field, the home field of the Boston Braves baseball team.

* August 5 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast ; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.

Wrigley Field is a baseball venue located in Chicago, Illinois, United States that has served as the home ballpark of the Chicago Cubs since 1916.

NCSA is now headquartered within its own building directly north of the Siebel Center for Computer Science, on the site of a former baseball field, Illini Field.

* Cisco Field, a future baseball stadium to be built in San Jose, California that will be the home venue for the Oakland Athletics

* Hyames Field ( baseball )

He set up a baseball field on the island at Maliki Field.

Although the Mariners subsequently lost the ALCS to the Cleveland Indians ( managed by later Mariners manager Mike Hargrove ), that moment remains one of the most memorable in Mariners history, capping a season that " saved baseball in Seattle ", Seattle's improbable late season playoff run that year, spurred by the return of Griffey from injury, led to the construction of Safeco Field and the future security of a franchise rumored for years to be on the move.

The Long Beach Breakers were a minor league baseball team that played at Blair Field in Long Beach, California.

Many area baseball fans were content to wait for the relocation of the Pacific Coast League Vancouver Canadians to Raley Field.

From the 1995 season to the present, the Otters have played their home games at Bosse Field, which has been in continuous use for minor league baseball since its opening in 1915.

* In the sport of baseball some foul poles are orange, but only one in Major League Baseball, belonging to the New York Mets at their home ballpark Citi Field ( and previously, Shea Stadium ).

The city hosted the 2005 NECBL All-Star Game at Cardines Field, which, originally built in 1908, is one of the oldest active baseball parks in the country.

* The baseball field at Keystone College is named " Christy Mathewson Field.

They played their home games at a stadium called The Diamond ( Parker Field ), which is currently home to the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams baseball team.