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Las Vegas 51s moving to $150M Summerlin stadium in 2019

The Las Vegas 51s Triple-A minor league baseball team will have a new home in 2019 after the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Tuesday approved a 20-year, $80 million naming rights agreement.

A-Rod partners with Las Vegas-based fitness company

Alex Rodriguez has gone from exercising on the baseball field to attending fitness classes in 103-degree heat. He’s now promoting those classes through a Vegas-based company.

A great ump, an even better man

Imagine the grinding from the grandstands longtime local baseball umpire Fred Atiyeh took in three decades behind the plate. Forget the fact he was a top-notch game caller and an even better man. Precision and ethics mean nothing to baseball fans, who know it’s their God-given right, indeed their duty, to razz the umpire at every opportunity.

What kind of baseball town are we? Ignorable, it seems

According to the folks at WalletHub.com, St. Louis is the country’s No. baseball town. Where is Las Vegas? That’s hard to say. For some reason, the survey outfit listed “Paradise, NV” at No. 210.