Baseball Forever

Rays get “Baseball Forever” pitch from Rick Kriseman

Published on April 5, 2017 in The Bay and the 'Burg by Drew Wilson

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman and local Chamber of Commerce President Chris Steinocher pitched a deal to the Tampa Bay Rays Wednesday that would have a new stadium built at the existing Tropicana Field site. The 43-page “Baseball Forever” pitch includes letters of support from 15 major employers in Pinellas County, all of which said they were devoted to keeping the pro baseball team in St. Petersburg. Among the corporate supporters were BayCare Medical Group, Bayfront Health, Ceridian, Duke Energy,…

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Rick Kriseman meets with MLB commissioner

Published on January 26, 2017 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Anne Lindberg

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman met Thursday with Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred at the commissioner’s office in New York City. Kriseman updated the commissioner on St. Petersburg’s Baseball Forever Campaign and shared the community’s vision for the Tropicana Field site – a vision that includes a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. “I am thankful for Commissioner Manfred’s time and share his desire for the Rays’ success,” Kriseman said. “I am confident that the team’s regional search will…

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Dick Vitale joins St. Pete’s ‘Baseball Forever’ campaign

Published on December 30, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Anne Lindberg

Dick Vitale has signed on to St. Pete’s “Baseball Forever” campaign. The campaign is designed to convince the Tampa Bay Rays that their current site, reimagined and redeveloped, remains the best location for Major League Baseball in Tampa Bay. To that end, Vitale is featured in a YouTube promotional video. In the video, Vitale, a longtime Manatee County resident, discusses the benefits of having Major League Baseball in St. Petersburg as well as the benefits of having a new Tampa…

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Remind us again what big project Rick Kriseman’s administration is good at managing?

Published on September 6, 2016 in Peter/Top Headlines by Peter Schorsch

It is the difference between the executive and the legislative. The former is about the buck stopping here. The latter is about forming a committee to explore when would be best to meet to address the problem. It’s about management style. With a political career that included time on St. Petersburg’s City Council and as a backbench member of the Florida Legislature, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman‘s background is mostly one of committees and workshops. There wasn’t a lot of management…

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St. Pete hires former senior administrator as Baseball Forever coordinator

Published on February 27, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

In what was really just an excuse to hand out free T-shirts, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman launched the city’s Baseball Forever campaign Saturday evening at Ferg’s Sports Bar. The campaign is the city’s official effort to build a case for keeping the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg. According to St. Pete chief of staff Kevin King, the city hired Rick Mussett, the city’s retired senior administrator who was St. Pete’s main contact with the Rays and played an…

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St. Petersburg launches “Baseball Forever” website

Published on February 23, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Janelle Irwin

St. Petersburg in coordination with the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce launched its “baseball forever” website this week. The website contains little information into the details of the collaboration, but is a swank first step in creating a robust coalition of stakeholders to make the case for baseball in St. Pete. Mayor Rick Kriseman announced the initiative during his State of the City Address last month. “I will soon be announcing the formation of a Baseball Forever Campaign to…

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