Minor League Baseball & Esurance - Homefield Advantage Award
Published on July 26, 2016 under International League (IL1)
Louisville Bats News Release
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - As the second half of the season gets underway, Minor League Baseball and Esurance today unveiled the first annual Esurance Home Field Advantage Award. One Minor League Baseball team in each of the 14 leagues will receive the award based on the highest percentage capacity of the ballpark during the 2016 season.
Louisville Bats fans are encouraged to continue to support the Bats in this friendly competition by attending games in the home stretch of the regular season. The winning teams will be announced in September and honored at the 2016 Baseball Winter Meetings(tm) in National Harbor, Maryland, this December. A celebration for the hometown fans of each winning team will also take place at their respective ballparks at the start of the 2017 season.
"The Louisville Bats are excited to partner with Esurance in this national home field advantage competition to determine who has the best home field advantage in the International League," said Bats Senior VP Greg Galiette.
"We're blessed to play in the finest Triple-A baseball stadium in the country and during the final six weeks of the 2016 season we encourage our fans to come out and support the team as we battle for the Western Division crown of the International League. We call on our fans to demonstrate to the rest of the country why the fans of the Louisville Bats are the best fans in all of Minor League Baseball."
The Bats' promotional calendar is packed with fun-filled events to entertain every kind of fan. The Bats will be giving away a Homer Bailey beer stein on Thursday, August 4 to the first 2,000 fans 21 & over. Also, the Famous Chicken will be coming to town on August 6. Finally, former Bats pitching coach Ted Power will have his own bobblehead given away to the first 2,000 fans on August 20.
Last month, Esurance and Minor League Baseball announced a strategic multi-year partnership making it the exclusive home and auto insurance partner of Minor League Baseball. To learn more about Esurance's Call-Up Worthy campaign with Minor League Baseball, visit www.MiLB.com/CallUpWorthy.
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