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Article: With Corporate Sponsor, This Bud May Be for Yankee Stadium
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 2, 1999
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Budweiser Yankee Stadium?
Or maybe Yahoo! Yankee Stadium?
The Yankees, in the process of merging their business operations
with the New Jersey Nets, may be willing -- for a price -- to change
the name of the House That Ruth Built.
"Sooner or later, they will be interested in it," said Howard
Rubenstein, the spokesman for YankeeNets. "But they will probably
want to determine where they want to place a new Yankee Stadium, and
then they'll deal with all the ancillary issues."
The Yankees' lease to play in Yankee Stadium expires in three
years, and the team has talked about three options: rebuilding the
ballpark, which opened in 1923 and was extensively remodeled from
1974 to '76; constructing a ...