Much of what is valuable at the old stadiums — seats, grass, signs, foul poles, screens, lights, scoreboards — will be removed before it is demolished and sold or auctioned by the teams in conjunction with the city, which may use some leftovers elsewhere in the five boroughs.
The new LED scoreboards will be used on the 7th, 13th, 16th and 17th holes but won't replace the traditional yellow scoreboards that overlook the closing green.
It was not the immediate impact on the scoreboard that will be expected from them as the season progresses, but for a first impression, it was fine.
The Mariners invested $10 million in the new scoreboard, which will be the largest in major league baseball and will give fans an extreme close-up of Felix Hernandez's new neck tattoo (among other sights).
"The pitch has been described as "benign" by Middlesex head coach Richard Scott but the scoreboard pressure will be monumental on his side's batsmen.
As part of the deal, a Budweiser logo is expected to figure prominently in the Friendly Confines' new 650-square-foot electronic scoreboard that will be built in right field during the off-season, ABC Chicago reports.
