05.29.2009 10:48 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Memphis Redbirds’ debt problems, which we reported here yesterday, apparently are hurting efforts to sell the minor-league baseball team. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports:
Difficulty in making the annual $5.4 million in bond payments, which are broken into March 1, Sept.…

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05.28.2009 9:58 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Memphis Redbirds, the AAA farm club of baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals, are in default on their stadium bonds.
The team issued $50 million worth of bonds in 1998 to pay for the acquisition of the team and the construction of…

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04.14.2009 10:57 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bill DeWitt III, president of the St. Louis Cardinals, was talking return on investment during a speech this morning at the Regional Chamber and Growth Association. The investors are the taxpayers of Missouri and St. Louis, and the investment is…

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04.13.2009 11:15 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In St. Louis, we’ve got a softball field instead of the condos, offices and restaurants that civic leaders envisioned next to Busch Stadium. In Washington, D.C., fans will have to settle for a beer tent on a key development site across…

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