| George Pascal
talks MLB on Bloomberg TV |
| ITMS Sports Executive Director George Pascal
discusses Major League Baseball’s world-wide activities
with hosts Richard Weiss and Oliver Zils of Bloomberg
TELEVISION’s “Horizont Sport Business Talk”.
Watch the entire 25-minute show and learn more about ITMS
Sports’ role in growing the game in Germany. |
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| Good Times with
Play Ball! and Nina Bott |
| Thanks to Play Ball!, German television actress
Nina Bott experiences only good times for once. Not known
as a particularly avid fan of sports, Bott succumbs to
Baseball’s appeal in this 30-second video shot during
Hamburg’s Pitch, Hit & Run regional final in
May. The piece was originally shown on RTL Nord. |
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| Play
Ball! Impressions |
| Play Ball!, Major League Baseball’s
youth development program, recently ended after three
intense and successful months. Relive the excitement of
the 2004 campaign with various impressions of events,
sites, and characters that made up this year’s tour.
In addition, the entertaining three-minute piece can also
be seen during telecasts of Major League Baseball games
on Premiere. |
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| MLB's Play Ball!
Roadshow on TVA |
| Major League Baseball's Play Ball! Roadshow
was recently paid a visit by local television station
TVA while stationed in Regensburg, Bavaria. The crew,
aiming to cover the Play Ball! program from a variety
of angels, used interviews with Play Ball! coordinators
and excited students, as well as footage of live baseball
action to create an intriguing report for its daily news
segement. |
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| PlayBall!
TV Commercial |
| This is the first-ever TV commercial for
Major League Baseball's grassroots initiatives in Germany.
The 30-second PlayBall! ad will air twice a day on Fox
Kids and during the weekly MLB game telecasts on Premiere.
The campaign will air throughout the 2004 summer. |
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| Teacher
Training Seminar on National TV |
| Germany's sports teachers learning to play
and teach baseball in schools is the topic of this piece
that was shown on ARD’s morning show on June 2,
2004. A camera team was within inches of all the action
as a PlayBall! Coordinator instructed an enthusiastic
group of German teachers on how to incorporate baseball
into their regular sports curriculum. |
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| 2003 Adidas
Junior Elite Baseball Camp - Bonn |
German TV station WDR reports on MLB International’s
Adidas
Junior Elite Baseball Camp held in Bonn, Germany, July
30 -
August 3, 2003. |
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| 2003 Sauerland
Champions |
Reports by German station WDR and NBC Giga
on the ITMS Sports conceived and managed event with tennis
legends Bjorn Borg,
Ilie Nastase, Henri Leconte and Mansour Bahrami in Sundern,
July 19-20. |
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| 2003 All-Star
Game Commercial |
| A commercial spot produced by ITMS Sports
to promote Major League Baseball's 2003 All-Star Game
in Chicago. The spot is being aired on German television
over a five-week period leading up to the 74th Mid-Summer
Classic at US Cellular Field on July 15. |
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| Mike Piazza in
Berlin on NBC Giga and TV Berlin |
| Perennial All-Star Catcher Mike Piazza of
the New York Mets visited Berlin in November 2002 to promote
baseball. He posed for photos at the Brandenburg Gate
and conducted a clinic at a German-American grade school,
giving tips and autographing hats and gloves. The crew
from NBC's Giga TV recorded it all and spent time with
the sports great discussing his baseball career, baseball
in Germany, and his life outside the diamond. |
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| Stars on Ice 2002 |
A series of video highlights from this year's Stars
on Ice tour, including performances by Denise Biellmann,
Alexei Urmanov,
and many more! |
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| Mitch Franke
on NBC Giga |
| Mitch Franke spends an afternoon with the
crew of NBC's Giga TV, discussing his baseball career,
living in America, and his new website. |
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| Mitch Franke
DSF Trailer |
| German sports television channel DSF shines the spotlight
on Mitch Franke, the first German baseball player to sign
a professional contract. |
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| Stars on Ice 2001 |
| Video highlights from the 2001 Stars on Ice tour. Clips
include performances by Lu Chen, Lucinda Ruh, and a host
of other world-class figure skaters. |
