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June 2010, Sports Facilities

Rosenblatt Signs Off

Sun, Jun 20, 2010

Beginning next year, the World Series will be contested three miles away at a new stadium in downtown Omaha dubbed TD Ameritrade Park, and the Rosenblatt grounds will give way to expansion plans for neighboring Henry Doorly Zoo.

The tradition started in 1950, when after spending its first three years in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Wichita, the College World Series landed in Omaha’s two-year-old, 10,000-seat stadium. It would be named for Johnny Rosenblatt, the city’s mayor, in 1964. To read more, click here.


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