The Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest Hits a Home Run, Nolan Ryan Signs On As National Spokesperson For 2007-09 Tour.Principal Financial Group Announces 2007 Tour Itinerary DES MOINES, Iowa “Des Moines” redirects here. For other uses, see Des Moines (disambiguation). Des Moines (pronounced /dɪˈmɔɪn/ in English, -- The Principal Financial Group([R]) and Entertainment & Sports International (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. ) announce the signing of Nolan Ryan "The Principal Family Fun Fest is batting a thousand by having Nolan Ryan join the team," said Dan Houston, executive vice president, Retirement and Investor Services, the Principal Financial Group. "With a popular hall of fame pitcher speaking on behalf of this event, the Principal Financial Group will be able to continue to give communities an edge by bringing a major league event to minor league communities." The Principal Financial Group has extended its exclusive title sponsorship through the 2009 season based on the unprecedented success of the 2004 through 2006 tours. The 2007 tour will begin on April 28 at Florida's Roger Dean Stadium Roger Dean Stadium is a baseball field located in a shopping district called Abacoa, which is in Jupiter, Florida. The stadium was built in 1998 and holds 7,200 people. , home of the Jupiter Hammerheads The Jupiter Hammerheads are a minor league baseball team based in Jupiter, Florida, named for the hammerhead shark. The team, which plays in the Florida State League, is the High-A affiliate of the Florida Marlins major-league club. and Palm Beach Cardinals. "The minor leagues offer fans a great baseball experience," said Nolan Ryan. "From exceptional value to a safe, family environment; fans get to see competitive professional baseball with non-stop entertainment. The Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest extends that excitement before the game with an event truly unique to minor league ballparks." Ryan joins the tour with an unrivaled career spanning 27 years, and his 5,714 strikeouts and seven no-hitters lead the record books. He is an eight-time MLB MLB Major League Baseball MLB Minor League Baseball MLB Middle Linebacker (football) MLB Motor Life Boat MLB Matt Leblanc (actor) MLB Mother Love Bone (band) All-Star and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999. He also is the owner of two minor league ball clubs, the Triple-A Round Rock Express and Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks The Corpus Christi Hooks are a minor league baseball team that plays in the Texas League as the Class AA affiliate of the Houston Astros. The team's ownership group is headed by Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan; the team's CEO, Reid Ryan, is Nolan's oldest son. , both of which are hosting the Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest this season. The Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest was created and is produced by ESI, a recognized leader in events and promotions for the teams of baseball's minor leagues. Family Fun Fest is a registered trademark of ESI. For more information about the Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest, visit www.principal.com/funfest. About the Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest The Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest is a daylong day·long adj. Lasting through the whole day. adv. Through the day; all day. Adj. 1. daylong - lasting through an entire day celebration of baseball, free to all fans. The 2007 tour will visit over 50 ballparks including teams representing 16 different leagues. It includes a traveling minor league baseball
see specimen artifacts. from over 100 years of major league history, and showcases players before they were stars. The event features a fan festival midway with more than 20 baseball-themed attractions, including batting and pitching cages, bungee runs, giant slide, a Rookie Zone, a state of the art video game trailer, and a historic display of 70 years of baseball photographs from the Life Magazine archives. About Entertainment & Sports International Entertainment & Sports International (ESI) specializes in the creation and production of distinctive and proprietary sports and entertainment events from offices in New Jersey and Palm Beach Gardens, FL. ESI is a partnership of two experience sports and entertainment executives who have worked with some of the best known entertainment brands of the past two decades. Visit www.esimarketing.com. About the Principal Financial Group The Principal Financial Group([R]) (The Principal ([R]))1 is a leader in offering businesses, individuals and institutional clients a wide range of financial products and services, including retirement and investment services, life and health insurance, and banking through its diverse family of financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. companies and national network of financial professionals. A member of the Fortune 500, the Principal Financial Group has $215.0 billion in assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. 2 and serves some 16.4 million customers worldwide from offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Principal Financial Group, Inc. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors 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 . For more information, visit www.principal.com.
2007 Principal Financial Group Family Fun Fest Tour Stops
4/28 Jupiter Hammerheads (Florida)
4/29 Palm Beach Cardinals (Florida)
5/2 Columbus Catfish (Atlanta)
5/4 Birmingham Barons (Alabama)
5/6 Huntsville Stars (Alabama)
5/8, 9 Rome Braves (Georgia)
5/13 Arkansas Travelers (Little Rock)
5/17 San Angelo Colts (Texas)
5/20 Corpus Christi Hooks (Texas)
5/22 Laredo Broncos (Texas)
5/24 Round Rock Express (Austin, Texas)
5/26 Midland RockHounds (Texas)
5/28 Fort Worth Cats (Texas)
6/3 Tulsa Drillers (Oklahoma)
6/5 Springfield Cardinals (Missouri)
6/8 River City Rascals (Missouri)
6/10 West Tenn Diamond Jaxx (Jackson, Tennessee)
6/13 Evansville Otters (Indiana)
6/15 Peoria Chiefs (Illinois)
6/17 Fort Wayne Wizards (Indiana)
6/21 Beloit Snappers (Wisconsin)
6/23 Iowa Cubs (Des Moines)
6/27 Cedar Rapids Kernels (Iowa)
6/29 Swing of the Quad Cities (Davenport, Iowa)
7/1 Omaha Royals (Nebraska)
7/3 St. Joe Blacksnakes (Missouri)
7/4 Kansas City T-Bones (Kansas)
7/6 Burlington Bees (Iowa)
7/8 St. Paul Saints (Minnesota)
7/10 Northern League All-Star Game, Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks
(North Dakota)
7/14 Lincoln Saltdogs (Nebraska)
7/15 Sioux City Explorers (Iowa)
7/18 South Bend Silver Hawks (Indiana)
7/22 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (Appleton)
7/24 Rockford RiverHawks (Illinois)
7/25 Schaumburg Flyers (Illinois)
7/27 Akron Aeros (Ohio)
7/31 Rochester Red Wings (New York)
8/2 Washington Wild Things (Pennsylvania)
8/5 Harrisburg Senators (Pennsylvania)
8/8 Syracuse SkyChiefs (New York)
8/12 Brockton Rox (Massachusetts)
8/14 New Britain Rock Cats (Connecticut)
8/16 Bridgeport Bluefish (Connecticut)
8/18 Connecticut Defenders (Norwich)
8/19 Pawtucket Red Sox (Rhode Island)
8/22 Frederick Keys (Maryland)
8/24 Kinston Indians (North Carolina)
8/26 Tennessee Smokies (Sevierville)
8/28 Hickory Crawdads (North Carolina)
8/30 Asheville Tourists (North Carolina)
9/1 Kannapolis Intimidators (North Carolina)
9/3 Savannah Sand Gnats (Georgia)
All Dates and Teams subject to change.
1 "The Principal Financial Group" and "The Principal" are registered service marks of Principal Financial Services, Inc., a member of the Principal Financial Group. 2 As of September 30, 2006. |
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