METS AND HYUNDAI REACH MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP FOR
HYUNDAI CLUB AT CITI FIELD
FLUSHING, N.Y., March 18, 2013 – The New York Mets today announced a multi-year partnership with Hyundai for naming rights to the Hyundai Club, the only all-inclusive premium seating area at Citi Field.
The Hyundai Club, formerly known as the Champions Club, is located on the field level behind home plate with its 660 seats spanning to the dugouts. The all-inclusive gourmet buffet includes a daily chef selection of carved meats and pasta and unlimited non-alcoholic beverages. A selection of peanuts, popcorn, fresh baked cookies and ice cream are also available.
Hyundai will have the exclusive right to showcase one of its vehicles on the Field Level concourse in front of the club for all 81 games.
The multi-year agreement is an expansion of a partnership that began last year with an outfield sign.
“We are proud to grow our relationship with Hyundai to including branding rights for one of the premiere seating locations at Citi Field,” said Dave Howard, Executive Vice President Business Operations. “Hyundai is the latest partner to join us for what will be an exciting All-Star season for Mets fans.”
“Citi Field provides a great venue to showcase an award-winning Hyundai line-up that continues to get even stronger,” said Ken Bloech, General Manager for Hyundai Motor America’s Eastern Region. “Over the course of the season, we look forward to having Mets’ fans enjoy games from the comfort of the Hyundai Club. We’ll also be displaying a range of vehicles from an all-new, three-row Santa Fe that’s perfect for families to a redesigned Equus sedan that delivers a higher level of refinement for the luxury segment.”
Other Corporate Partners of the Mets with naming rights for premium hospitality spaces at Citi Field include Delta Air Lines with the Delta Sky360 Club, Caesars Atlantic City with the Caesars Club, Amtrak with the Acela Club, Modell’s with the Modell’s Clubhouse and Party City with the Party City Deck.
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Committee to Commemorate
Babe Ruth
In honor and tribute to of the “90th Anniversary of “Old Yankee Stadium”,
the Committee to Commemorate Babe Ruth
has joined forces with
HistoryOfTheYankees.com & the Committee to Commemorate Old Yankee Stadium,
to launch a nationwide campaign to celebrate and commemorate “The House That Ruth Built” by:
1) Petitioning the City of New York to rename the historic site of Old Yankee Stadium either “Old Yankee Stadium Park”, or “Old Yankee Stadium Fields”. (It is now very blandly and confusingly referred to by City officials as both “Heritage Park” or “McCombs Dam Park”, missing a golden opportunity to majestically name it after “the greatest stadium since the Coliseum of Rome.”)
2) Naming the three (presently unnamed) baseball fields now on the Old Yankee Stadium site in honor of Yankees and Yankee history. First and foremost, the main field (the one most aligned with the original field) should be named “Babe Ruth Field” or “Babe Ruth Memorial Field”*, after the greatest and most popular player in the baseball history, and the man responsible for the very existence of (both Old and New) Yankee Stadium.
3) Commemorating both the “90th Anniversary of Old Yankee Stadium” and next year’s “100th Anniversary of Babe Ruth in Baseball” by petitioning and promoting a landmark Babe Ruth Statue** either at the Old Yankee Stadium site or Babe Ruth Plaza (facing the Old Yankee Stadium site.) We will encourage the City & Yankees to assure this is greatest – most Ruthian – statue of any sports hero in America.***
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Attached hereto is an image prepared by HistoryOfTheYankees.com depicting our joint proposals for “Old Yankee Stadium Park” and Babe Ruth Memorial Field”, as well as the following link to our 90th Anniversary Tribute on YouTube:
90th Anniversary Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sECzoj0ALL0
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* Mayor Bloomberg ordered the destruction of “Babe Ruth Memorial Park”, which was officially decreed and dedicated 60 years earlier as a “permanent tribute to Babe Ruth”. This has left New York without any official tribute to Babe Ruth, far and away the City’s (and Nation’s) most distinguished and popular sports figure – no park, no field, no statue, no school, no street, no children’s center, nothing! The administration that destroyed both The House That Ruth Built and Babe Ruth Memorial Field has repeatedly refused to honor him with even a field name (never mind a statue) at the former site of Old Yankee Stadium!!!
** A statue of Babe Ruth at one of these sites would be HUGELY profitable, bringing fans and tourists from all over the city, country, and world, that would otherwise not visit as frequently, if at all – Babe Ruth being the most popular and beloved sports figure in American history – and an international American icon.
*** Old Yankee Stadium opened on April 18, 1923, to world-wide amazement and acclaim. Babe Ruth famously christened it with a home run to “Ruthville”.
For the Committee to Commemorate Babe Ruth:
Co-Directors: Tim Reid & Bob Ward
[email protected]
754-368-1295