"franchise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The deal must be approved by an expansion committee of Major League Baseball, which is putting together new minor-league franchises to accompany the two new Major League franchises that will begin play in the National League next season.
- The Staten Island stadium, budgeted at $71 million and under construction along the St. George shoreline, just west of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, is to be used by a minor-league franchise of the Yankees.
- He has also maintained that its price is too high and that the caliber of baseball it will bring, with a single-A minor-league franchise, to the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is beneath the dignity of the borough.
- Under terms of a 20-year lease agreement between the city and the Mets, the minor-league franchise will pay up to $520,000 a year, based on attendance, for use of the stadium.
- The Mets general manager, Al Harazin, said yesterday that the team maintains its concern about any minor-league franchise "in our backyard."
- The Checkers were sold shortly after their championship season at a then-record price for a minor-league professional franchise, to Tim Braswell, who sold the team in 2000 to George Shinn and Ray Woolridge, the Hornets owners.
- "He (Parcells) wanted me to find him a team," said Schmittou, who heads a group that has owned nine minor-league franchises across the country.
- Mr. Giuliani has already pushed through new stadiums for single-A minor-league franchises of the Yankees and the Mets, paid for entirely by the city and under construction on Staten Island and at Coney Island.
- It also gives him an important voice on virtually every major state issue, from property taxes to the plan to build a hockey arena in downtown Newark and one in Pennsauken, where at the time he owned the rights to a minor-league franchise.
- The measure would allow the authority to construct and own the stadium and lease it to a minor-league franchise.
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