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MLB All-Star Game in 2012 will be held in Kansas City, not Boston

June 18, 2010 on 2:09 pm | By admin | In Recreation and Sports | Comments Off

The great dream of professional baseball fans in Kansas City, home of the Royals, American League, received the great news that their city has been chosen for the celebration of All-Star Game in 2012.

The wait for decades to have the honor of hosting the week in professional baseball in the majors are making the traditional break in the regular competition dispute came to an end in Kansas City after commissioner Bud Selig hiciese the official announcement.

The game will be played at Kauffman Stadium, the field where they play the Royals and has been renewed.

Selig made the announcement Wednesday in the renovated stadium, fulfilling a promise made four years ago, so the game is a reward for Jackson County voters.

In 2006 approved an increase in sales tax to fund renovations at Kauffman and Arrowhead stadiums, home of the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL. The works cost more than $ 500 million.

Before that vote Selig had promised to be played an All-Star Game in Kansas City between 2010 and 2014 if the tax was approved.

Selig was a close friend of Ewing Kauffman, founder of the Royal and recalled that he attended the All-Star Game in the city in 1973, the year the facility opened as Royals Stadium.

“Ewing and I became close,” said Selig. “I always had a great affinity with Kansas City. It is a great baseball market, much like Milwaukee, with a wonderful baseball tradition.” Boston Red Sox Tickets at Fenway Park

By bringing the All-Star Game in Kansas City all the attention will focus on a stadium and a team that has not received much national attention in a generation after he was among the best in the American.

The Royals have not been to the postseason since winning the World Series in 1985. Since former CEO David Glass Wal-Mart took over the team following the death of Kauffman in 1993, the franchise has had problems in the field and filling the stands Boston Red Sox Tickets.

Selig said All-Star Game will inject around 70 million dollars to the economy Kansas City.

“I’ve seen what the All-Star can do for a franchise, and this really going to help David Glass and the Royals organization,” Selig argued Red Sox vs. Royals Tickets.

Kansas City had competition, especially from Boston, where Fenway Park will celebrate 100 years in 2012.

“In the 1990s, you had to beg someone to receive the game. Now I have a list of computers and every time I won one there are some people, and I know who they are, they are upset,” said Selig. “Okay. It will happen. Do not spend much time worrying about those things.”

He said the Red Sox, who hosted the game in 1999, “had some very interesting arguments,” admitted Selig.

“It was tough. But the Royals did an excellent presentation and Mr Glass is always very persuasive to me. This is an organization that need to be successful and we hope this will help in that process and we know that will happen,” the commissioner.

The reaction from Boston was nothing good as anticipated and Selig himself described his unfortunate decision and “respectfully” with the history of the Red Sox and Fenway Park.

If Selig’s image was not the best in Boston, after this decision will not encourage him.