Several minor league baseball teams are latching onto Covid-relief money in a “walk-on-the-legal-wild-side” effort to preserve their patch of America’s pastime.
As the big league playoffs take the spotlight, struggling minor league affiliates from Reading, Pennsylvania, to Hudson Valley, New York, are convincing local officials to use their American Rescue Plan funds to pay for new turf, brighter lights, and even stadium party decks.
“Spectator sports suffered most from Covid,” said Victor Matheson, a sports economics professor at Massachusetts-based College of the Holy Cross. “It’s totally reasonable for them to ask Congress for money when it’s bailed out local ...
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