Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
November 03, 2003
King Dome?

Don King wants to build a baseball stadium on his property:


Boxing promoter Don King wants the Florida Marlins to build a ballpark on 54 acres of property he owns in Palm Beach County.

King owns a jai-alai fronton in Mangonia Park that he said would be an ideal site for the World Series champions' proposed park, spokesman Robert Weneck said. If the ballpark has a roof, King would stage boxing matches in the arena during the offseason.

That would help the Marlins pay the estimated cost of $325 million for the stadium, King said.

"It's a marriage made in heaven for Floridians," King said Monday during a telephone interview from Atlantic City, N.J. He said he has not spoken yet to the Marlins and said no financial terms had been set for the offer.


First of all, I'd love to see Don King wearing a Marlins cap, or any cap for that matter. :-) One big problem, however, is that this area is 60 miles north of the present stadium, and being inconvient is a big complaint about Pro Player. Putting a new stadium a hour north of that isn't going to improve things.


Posted by David Pinto at 03:22 PM | Stadiums | TrackBack (0)