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Australia to get a new Baseball League in November 2007
EXCLUSIVE
Austadiums.com can exclusively reveal that Major League Baseball and Australian Baseball will be announcing a new national competition to commence in November 2007. Shane Tonkin, the Events Manager of Baseball WA, revealed that the competition would include 6 teams from around the country and that Fox Sports was interested in broadcasting the competition.
As the Barbagallo Perth Heat lead the country in crowds, its a major boost to the sport that the Major League Baseball are seeking to invest into a national competition in Australia. According to Shane Tonkin it would be 75% funded by Major League Baseball and 25% funded by Australian Baseball, who would pay out all the contracts from its head body on the Gold Coast.
The Major League would align itself a club to one particular state with a number of venues speculated to hold a national league team. In Queensland, the Sports & Athletic Centre (formerly ANZ Stadium), Palm Meadows and Carrara Stadium have been mentioned, New South Wales would utilise Bankstown Olympic Stadium, Victoria would choose between either Altona or Geelong, while South Australia are still in the process of choosing the venues they would use in the national league.
Australian Provincial would be based out of Canberra, while the Barbagallo Perth Heat would be based out of Tom Bateman Reserve in Thornlie.
Shane Tonkin said that the Australian Baseball League is interested in expanding after 3 or 4 years, but is careful not to dilute the corporate market in these cities. What happened in the past, QLD, NSW and VIC had two teams corporate dollar was spread pretty far I dont think they will get expanded till they get established.
The season would run over four months from November 2007 to February 2007 initially, before reverting to a 6 month season after the initial season.
The format would be on the Australian Rugby Union model, which would pay the players on a centralized system, however after two years, Tonkin said that this could be bought by a franchise. The salary cap would be Major League Baseball own 75% and Australian Baseball 25%, so all the funds will be provided out of the head office in Gold Coast after two years, will have the power, to sell off the individual franchises.
Its believed that Fox Sports are interested in broadcasting the Australian Baseball League to viewers around the country.
Australians will be seeing the best baseball players in the world, strutting their stuff, with the Major League investing in the competition to keep their players active in the off-season.
The reason why they want to invest in Australia, Major League Baseball has nowhere to send its players in the off-season A major league team would be affiliated to one in Australia.
By Chris Egan
egan@austadiums.com
EXCLUSIVE
Austadiums.com can exclusively reveal that Major League Baseball and Australian Baseball will be announcing a new national competition to commence in November 2007. Shane Tonkin, the Events Manager of Baseball WA, revealed that the competition would include 6 teams from around the country and that Fox Sports was interested in broadcasting the competition.
As the Barbagallo Perth Heat lead the country in crowds, its a major boost to the sport that the Major League Baseball are seeking to invest into a national competition in Australia. According to Shane Tonkin it would be 75% funded by Major League Baseball and 25% funded by Australian Baseball, who would pay out all the contracts from its head body on the Gold Coast.
The Major League would align itself a club to one particular state with a number of venues speculated to hold a national league team. In Queensland, the Sports & Athletic Centre (formerly ANZ Stadium), Palm Meadows and Carrara Stadium have been mentioned, New South Wales would utilise Bankstown Olympic Stadium, Victoria would choose between either Altona or Geelong, while South Australia are still in the process of choosing the venues they would use in the national league.
Australian Provincial would be based out of Canberra, while the Barbagallo Perth Heat would be based out of Tom Bateman Reserve in Thornlie.
Shane Tonkin said that the Australian Baseball League is interested in expanding after 3 or 4 years, but is careful not to dilute the corporate market in these cities. What happened in the past, QLD, NSW and VIC had two teams corporate dollar was spread pretty far I dont think they will get expanded till they get established.
The season would run over four months from November 2007 to February 2007 initially, before reverting to a 6 month season after the initial season.
The format would be on the Australian Rugby Union model, which would pay the players on a centralized system, however after two years, Tonkin said that this could be bought by a franchise. The salary cap would be Major League Baseball own 75% and Australian Baseball 25%, so all the funds will be provided out of the head office in Gold Coast after two years, will have the power, to sell off the individual franchises.
Its believed that Fox Sports are interested in broadcasting the Australian Baseball League to viewers around the country.
Australians will be seeing the best baseball players in the world, strutting their stuff, with the Major League investing in the competition to keep their players active in the off-season.
The reason why they want to invest in Australia, Major League Baseball has nowhere to send its players in the off-season A major league team would be affiliated to one in Australia.
By Chris Egan
egan@austadiums.com