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AP-LA--LSU Stadium


LSU board committee approves construction of new baseball stadium

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The athletic panel of L-S-U's governing board signed off today on construction of a new 23 (m) million dollar baseball stadium to open in 2008. The stadium will be located about two-thousand feet south of the current site of Alex Box Stadium, which was built in the 1930s and has been renovated several times. The new facility will seat approximately eight-thousand people and also will be named Alex Box Stadium. It will be paid for by the L-S-U Athletics Department through a combination of the sale of revenue bonds and private donations. The full L-S-U Board of Supervisors is expected to rubber stamp the project tomorrow. Construction is slated to begin in August 2006 with the first pitch slated for February 2008.



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