St. Louis baseball fans have something to look for in 2009 as the host city of Major League Baseball’s All-star game. But the home of the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals will have to wait for San Francisco and New York City to have a turn.
Baseball is set to announce Yankee Stadium as site of the 2008 All-Star game. Commissioner Bud Selig will hold a news conference at New York’s City Hall with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Jan. 31. Selig has said since last summer that Yankee Stadium was a leading candidate for the game.
The ballpark, which opened in 1923, is scheduled to close after the 2008 season, and the Yankees will move into a new stadium, being built across a street, the following year. This year’s All-Star game will be at San Francisco, and the 2009 game will be in St. Louis. Newsday reported the timing of the news conference Tuesday.