12/22/08

Anheuser-Busch Skip 2009 Baseball Classic

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and MasterCard Inc. won’t return as sponsors of the World Baseball Classic next year.

MasterCard was one of two global partners for the inaugural country-against-country event in 2006, while Anheuser-Busch was a partner in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. PepsiCo Inc. may also skip the second edition of the tournament. All three companies are official sponsors of Major League Baseball, which created the event with its players union.


“Like anything else we are taking a look at all our sponsorships,” MasterCard spokesman Jon Schwartz said in an interview. “It was one of those that didn’t make the cut.”
Baseball and its players union is staging the second World Baseball Classic in March with the global economy deteriorating. The U.S., defending-champion Japan, the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands are among the 16 countries participating in the event, which begins...




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