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A Republican congresswoman has called out Major League Baseball for moving an All-Star game out of Georgia over its controversial new voter-ID law - while still requiring fans to show photo identification cards to pick up tickets.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace suggested the league s ticket policy was hypocritical given its opposition to the law, which will require voters to provide a state ID number on their absentee ballot. Hey @MLB, this you? Rep. Mace wrote, along with a screenshot of the Will Call policy at mlb.com.
The official policy states: Group and hospitality tickets left at Will Call will be held under one person s name, and that person will need a picture ID to pick up their tickets.
Georgia County Says MLB All-Star Game Would ve Brought $100M and Help Post-COVID
On 4/4/21 at 9:43 AM EDT
Tourism officials in Georgia s Cobb County lamented Major League Baseball s (MLB) recent decision to relocate the summer s All-Star Game, which was originally set to take place at Truist Park in Atlanta.
Holly Quinlan, president and chief operating officer at Cobb Travel and Tourism a local bureau focused on drawing visitors to the county encompassing Atlanta estimated that the jurisdiction would have reaped significant profits as a result of the annual sporting event, and projected a loss of roughly $100 million now that MLB plans to take its business elsewhere.
MLB moving All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to Georgia voting laws
by Ronald Blum, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 2, 2021 3:15 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 2, 2021 at 9:08 pm EDT
Atlanta Braves field manager Tyler Lenz walks across the covered home plate at Truist Park in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Atlanta lost Major League Baseball’s summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league’s objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics – including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola – have condemned as being too restrictive.
The decision to pull the July 13 game from Atlanta’s Truist Park amounts to the first economic backlash against Georgia for the voting law that Republican Gov. Brian Kemp quickly signed into law March 25.
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