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N.Y. season-ticket holders may miss All-Star seats

NEW YORK -- New York Yankees season-ticket holders with the best, most expensive seats might lose them for this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The event is being held at Yankee Stadium on July 15, and baseball will hold about 17,000 seats for its business partners. Some fans who pay as much as US$275 a game for field-box seats for the entire season may be relocated to different locations in the 56,935-seat ballpark, even upstairs in seats that usually sell for as little as US$20. Those who don’t have a package that includes all 81 home games might be shut out.

“If you have a seat behind the dugout and MLB takes it, how can I sell it to you?” said Lonn Trost, the Yankees’ chief operating officer.

Tim Brosnan, MLB’s executive vice president for business, said the “custom and practice” at All-Star games is for full season-ticket holders to be “accommodated with a choice of seats,” without being guaranteed their usual spot.

Baseball awarded the Yankees the All-Star Game to honor the final year of Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923. The franchise is moving next year into a US$955 million ballpark being built across the street. The Yankees for 2008 have sold 36,000 full-season- equivalent packages, which represents 81-game deals and partial season tickets combined. New York drew a club-record 4.26 million fans last season.

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