Article: Minute Maid Makes $170 Million Name Deal for Houston Astros Stadium.

By Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 6--Now being served at Minute Maid Park: peanuts, Cracker Jack and orange juice?

Houston-based Minute Maid Co. agreed Wednesday to pay the Astros an estimated $170 million over 28 years for naming rights to the team's 3-year-old downtown ballpark plus an array of other advertising and marketing opportunities. The festive ceremony included a fireworks display and the team's vintage locomotive pulling a cart of giant "oranges" along the left-field railroad tracks.

Astros owner Drayton McLane Jr. called the agreement with the Minute Maid Co. a "new partnership but an old ...

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