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LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. - City officials said Tuesday that they expect the city to get a $2.9 million economic boost from the biggest softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' tournament season yet in the 10 years they have promoted sports as a tourism attraction. Lancaster officials announced a tournament schedule that would bring 925 teams and more than 13,000 players to the city this year. Last year, Lancaster attracted about 800 teams. ``We will eclipse the 900-team mark with our aggressive marketing,'' said Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The season, which runs from March through December, will be anchored by two large Junior Olympic tournaments, the first over the July 4 weekend featuring 90 teams and the second in mid-October featuring 110 teams. For area hotels, the tournaments are very much welcomed, said Cecilia Secka, marketing consultant for the Park Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet that (122 m) occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it derives its name, and extends along Central Park South in Manhattan. . Employees of aerospace companies and the federal government provide the bulk of the Antelope antelope, name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the sheep and goats. The North American pronghorn is sometimes called an antelope, but belongs to a separate, related family (Antilocapridae). Valley's hotel visitors, but those visitors tend to stay during the weekdays. ``We die on the weekends,'' Secka said. ``Sports is a savior for us.'' Sports tournaments bring in about $100,000 to the Park Plaza alone, Secka said. At the suggestion of a citizens committee in the early 1990s, the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. began a push to bring in softball and soccer tournaments. To accommodate the tournaments, the city began developing the Lancaster National Soccer Center on the city's east side and the Big 8 softball complex based at City Park. The city has steadily built up its tournament schedule, starting with 252 teams and 3,500 players in 1994. Those tournaments featured primarily regional tournaments. This season will have two state championships and six national championships. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Mayor Frank Roberts and marketing consultant Cecilia Secka talk at a press conference Tuesday about Lancaster's softball tournament schedule. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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