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A showdown win

It was billed as the Bricktown Showdown, and the Sacramento River Cats won that showdown to become the champions of Triple-A baseball. We were there to cover the event at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark. Watch for our photo essay, coming soon.

Happy Goodyear

With Bob Feller behind the controls of the bulldozer, ground has been broken for the Indians' new spring-training complex in Goodyear, AZ. Practice fields will be ready next year, and the 8,000-seat stadium (above) in 2009. Image from HOK Sport

Big League Ballpark Notes

The Blue Jays play their home games in Toronto's Rogers Centre, and food-service workers there might be about to unioninze, a move that the team's owner and the current concession contractor don't want to happen ... The final big-league homestand ever to be played at RFK Stadium (left) has begun, so folks are reflecting on the facility's legacy. As Washington Times columnist Thom Loverro points out, "it's not exactly like saying goodbye to Wrigley Field here." ... Seats, World Series banners and even a urinal from Tiger Stadium are on the auction block ... The attendance at Marlins games has been so low recently that a heckler, whose voice was clearly audible in the near-empty stadium, was ejected by the ump.