Major League Baseball has asked that one of All-Star weekend’s largest events go dry again this year.
Baseball asked the Midwest Express Center not to serve beer at the All-Star FanFest July 5-9 because it is a family event, said Marla Miller, the league’s senior vice president of special events.
“Beer is not crucial to a family event that lets out early in the evening,” she said. “We’ve only had beer at two of the FanFests in the 11 years the event has existed.”
A conflict between the league’s contract with St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. and the Midwest Express Center’s contract with Milwaukee’s Miller Brewing Co. did not prompt the decision, Marla Miller said.
The center said it would honor the request, a spokesman said.
The FanFest targets children with memorabilia booths and interactive baseball games, Miller said.
Say what?
`Maybe they’ll come to collect the money I owe.’
–NASCAR team owner Jack Roush, seriously hurt in an April 19 plane crash, who’ll be greeted by many when he returns to the track this weekend
