Atlantic League Team Owner Featured In FoxBusiness.com Article
June 19, 2012
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Peter Kirk was featured in a recent article on Foxbusiness.com. He is the chairman of Opening Day Partners which owns four teams in the Atlantic League — Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, York Revolution, Lancaster Barnstormers, and Sugar Land Skeeters. In the article he discusses several topics about the business of independent professional minor league baseball including:
- making stadiums more appealing than just being a “charming” ballpark
- the difference between 1000 people a night and 5000 people a night
- the principles he took from commercial real estate he applied to the baseball business
- how his teams foster relationships with their local communities
Here is the article:
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