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Missoula Osprey
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MISSOULA, MONT – The Missoula Osprey will begin accepting requests for tickets in the Best Buy Community Corner section beginning on Monday, March 3. The Best Buy Community Corner is a block of seats designated to recognize non-profit organizations that make a difference in the Missoula-area. For every regular season home game, Best Buy and the Osprey team-up to donate 20 complimentary tickets to qualified non-profit organizations. The tickets can be used by volunteers, sponsors, staff, or those that benefit from the organization’s efforts. Due to the popularity of the program, Community Corner tickets are only available on a first come, first served basis. Community Corner requests must be made in writing to Assistant General Manager Jeff Griffin on the non-profit organization’s leatherhead by the director of each group Requests may be mailed to 412 W. Alder St., faxed to 543-9463, or emailed to jgriffin@missoulaosprey.com.
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Missoula, MT July 23, 2006 -- (1) USDA’s Power Panther joined three Missoula Osprey baseball players signing autographs for hundreds of kids at a Sunday afternoon minor league matchup. (2) Osprey players Ricardo Cruz, Houston Summers and Brett Reynolds signed baseball posters designed by FNS Mountain Plains Regional Office. (3) Ollie, the mascot for the Missoula Ospreys, joined the Power Panther to greet kids attending the baseball game in Montana. The Power Panther passed out paw prints and greeted kids visiting the FNS exhibit, handing out Eat Smart. Play Hard materials—mouse pads, soft baseballs, rubber bracelets, posters and other nutrition materials.
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Considering the rather shabby nature of Lindborg-Cregg, the Osprey are rather bold in charging the most expensive prices for tickets in the Pioneer League, a testament to the pent-up demand for minor-league baseball in Missoula. (The Missoula Timberjacks were in the Class C Pioneer League in 1956 to 1960 as a farm team of the Washington Senators; notables from those teams include manager Jack McKeon, pitcher Jim Kaat and outfielder Sandy Valdespino.) There is a limited selection of $9 seats behind home plate and along each line, but these are occupied mainly by season-ticket owners. Theater-style seats in the main grandstand cost $7, while reserved bench seats in back of each base costs $6. (Bench seating is a euphemism for seating with no backs, a small step above pure bleacher seats.) Two small bleacher sections far down the first-base line cost $3.75 for adults and $2.75 for children.
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Back before the Missoula Osprey moved into their fancy new—and finally completed—digs, the team was relegated to playing at Lindborg-Cregg Field, a facility primarily used by the local American Legion high-schooler team. There wasn’t much special about seeing the Osprey at Lindborg-Cregg, except for the witty barbs and cleanly worded trash-talk from the hecklers along the right field bleachers—a tight-knit crew that developed quite a reputation within the Pioneer League.
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Lindborg-Cregg is a glorified American Legion field, expanded to temporarily house the Osprey until a new baseball stadium can be built in downtown Missoula. Don't be swayed by the 1999 construction date for Lindborg-Cregg -- it may be the date when the bleachers were expanded and concession stands constructed in anticipation for the Osprey starting operations in 1999, but this is basically an older Legion field pressed into service.
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A short walk will take you to the U.S Forest Service Regional Headquarters, Saint Patrick’s Hospital, The International Heart Institute, A Carousel for Missoula, The Missoula Osprey, Brennans Wave and The Missoula Aquatic Center. Fly fishing on the Clark Fork River, Blackfoot River and Bitterroot river, mountain biking, white water rafting, golf and skiing at Missoula Snowbowl are just minutes away. Located midway between Yellowstone Nation Park and Glacier National Park, this Missoula hotel is the perfect stop over.
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