50-City 'Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest' Will Be Most Extensive Baseball Festival Tour in History.Entertainment Editors/Sports Editors/Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 The most extensive traveling festival celebrating baseball in history, similar in setup to a mini "Fan Fest", will embark on a 50-city tour of minor league ballparks this summer under the title sponsorship of the Principal Financial Group(R). (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PFG PFG Principal Financial Group PFG Performance Food Group (Richmond, VA) PFG Pinnacle Financial Group PFG Plasma Flood Gun PFG Planning for Growth PFG Pasty Faced Geek PFG Perfluoroguanidine ) The Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest, will invoke the popularity of Major League Baseball's annual "Fan Fest" (featured at the All-Star Game An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league. The players are often chosen by a popular vote of fans of the sport and the game often occurs at the halfway point of the regular season, although this is not the case for some all-star games ), and is scheduled to embark on April 9 in Savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. , GA. Covering as much as 4,000 square feet the daylong day·long adj. Lasting through the whole day. adv. Through the day; all day. Adj. 1. daylong - lasting through an entire day event will be offered free to the public. The Principal Family Fun Fest will be produced by Entertainment & Sports International, Inc. (ESI (Edge Side Includes) A markup language for Web pages that enables elements of a Web page to be dynamically assembled in servers distributed throughout the Internet. ). The Principal Financial Group has signed a three-year agreement with ESI to secure title sponsorship through 2006. No event of this size has ever been created to involve so many minor league cities in one season. "The Principal(R) is thrilled to sponsor the most ambitious undertaking ever on the national level in support of minor league baseball
The event features over 20 midway style attractions including batting cages Noun 1. batting cage - a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice cage baseball equipment - equipment used in playing baseball , power pitcher In baseball, a power pitcher is a pitcher who relies on the velocity of his pitches, sometimes at the expense of accuracy. Power pitchers usually record a high number of strikeouts and statistics such as strikeouts per 9 innings pitched are common measures of power. , broadcast booth, museum, an autograph stage as well as the Microsoft X Box Home Run Derby This is about the Major League Baseball contest. For the 1959 television show of the same name, see Home Run Derby (TV series). The Home Run Derby is an event played prior to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. arcade vehicle. The Principal Family Fun Fest sets up in a parking lot or field adjacent to the ballpark and is open to fans from noon to 6 PM on game day. After the game, a giant inflatable in·flat·a·ble adj. Designed to be filled with air or gas before use: an inflatable mattress. n. An object or device that can be filled with air or gas, especially: a. movie screen is set up in the shallow outfield and fans can enjoy a screening of a family-oriented classic baseball film under the stars. For the Principal Financial Group, the sponsorship broadens the reach of their community support and it offers a unique opportunity for local sales and service teams to reward and entertain existing customers and brokers as well as establish new sales leads A sales lead is the identity of a person or entity potentially interested in purchasing a product or service, and represents the first stage of a sales process. The lead may have a corporation or business associated with the person(s). . As title sponsor, the Principal Financial Group will receive prominent logo and company placement in all marketing, advertising and promotion materials associated with the tour and individual events. After the April 9 debut before Savannah Sand Gnats The Savannah Sand Gnats are a minor league baseball team in Savannah, Georgia and are a Class A farm team in the South Atlantic League, being affiliated with the New York Mets since their 2007 season. fans, the tour will visit 49 additional Triple A, Double and Single A and Rookie League teams and ballparks through September with additional stops at All Star and playoffs games and events. A list of all scheduled cities is attached. To learn more about the Principal Family Fun Fest, visit www.principal.com/funfest . Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest Tour Stops (as of 3/30; subject to change) Savannah Sand Gnats 4/9 Columbus Catfish 4/11 Mobile BayBears 4/13 West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx 4/16 Arkansas Travelers 4/20 Birmingham Barons 4/24 Charleston RiverDogs 4/26 Greenville Braves 4/30 Salem Avalanche 5/5 Hickory Crawdads 5/9 Memphis Redbirds 5/14 Tulsa Drillers 5/16 Tucson Sidewinders 5/28 El Paso Diablos 5/30 Fort Worth Cats 6/3 Midland RockHounds 6/6 Salt Lake Stingers 6/12 Colorado Springs Sky Sox 6/15 Las Vegas 51's 6/18 Kingsport Mets 6/23 Elizabethton Twins 6/25 Johnson City Cardinals 6/27 Bluefield Orioles 6/28 Charlotte Knights 6/29 Potomac Cannons 7/2 Burlington Indians 7/4 Winston-Salem Warthogs 7/6 Kinston Indians 7/8 Durham Bulls 7/10, 11 Wilmington Blue Rocks 7/14 Staten Island Yankees 7/17 Binghamton Mets 7/20 Buffalo Bisons 7/21 Syracuse SkyChiefs 7/23 Norfolk Tides 7/25 Burlington Bees 7/29 Omaha Royals 8/1 Iowa Cubs 8/3, 4, 5 Swing of the Quad Cities 8/8 South Bend Silver Hawks 8/14 Clinton LumberKings 8/15 Cedar Rapids Kernels 8/17 Richmond Braves 8/21, 22 Kansas City T-Bones 8/25 Battle Creek Yankees 8/28 West Michigan Whitecaps 8/31 Columbus Clippers 9/3 All dates and teams subject to change *pending final confirmation |
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