Lamping resigns from Cards, takes job in New York

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The Lamp's Out
Published 3/14/2008 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
Mark Lamping resigns as president of the Cardinals to manage the building of the new football stadium for the Giants and Jets. After a career as prominent sports-marketing executive at Anheuser-Busch, Lamping was hired as Cardinals president on Sept. 1, 1994. It was a troubling time for the franchise. The 1994 Major League Baseball season was shut down because of a labor disagreement, and the Cardinals were slumping on the field. Lamping played a substantial role in the Cardinals' reversal of fortune. In 1995, Lamping hired Walt Jocketty as general manager, and Jocketty soon ...

Mark Lamping Resigns As President of St. Louis Cardinals
Published 3/14/2008 by Maury Brown at The Biz of Baseball :: Business of Sports Network
... Mark Lamping the president of the Cardinals is leaving to take the CEO position with the New Meadowlands Stadium Company, a $1.4 billion stadium project for the Giants and Jets of the NFL. In his place, the Cardinals become more of a family affair. As reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: ...

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Published 3/14/2008 by athooks at Cardinals Diaspora
Mark Lamping is resigning as the Cardinals team President effective immediately. Be worried. Cardinal fans, be very worried. Let me say this about the situation. I don’t really give a shit what the team President does. He’s not really involved in player devlopment, coaching or really anything making the product on the field win. By proxy he makes it easier on the people paid to do those things, but Mark Lamping didn’t cost any games at the end of the day. We have a new stadium, which is pretty average and we’ve won a ...

Lamping resigns as Cards team president
Published 3/14/2008 by Deaner at Cardinal Nation Globe
More major changes for the St. Louis Cardinals... Mark Lamping has resigned as team president after a 13-year tenure. He will be moving to New York and will become CEO of the New Meadowlands Stadium Company which is building the new NFL stadium for the Jets and Giants. ...

Adding an Arm
Published 3/14/2008 by Cardinal 70 at C70 At The Bat
... The other big news in Cardinal land is that team president Mark Lamping has resigned to take a job in New York.  Lamping had been in St. Louis for 13 years and presided over a great stretch of Cardinal baseball.  His tenure has been ...

The Morning Tailgate
Published 3/14/2008 at STLSportsMag
...   When the big story breaks about Mark Lamping stepping down from the Cardinals, we're going to bring it to you - and we're going to bring it to you from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  We'll still sprinkle in the random thoughts of those on the outside, but when big news hits, we want the most accurate and in-depth blog links possible - and we're gonna give them to you.  And all in stunning High Definition!  [End NewsChannel 5-esque Promo] As you know by now, Mark Lamping is stepping down from the Cardinals .  A job overseeing the new Meadowlands project is "in the Cards" ...

Quick Hits: Lohse, Lamping, Gonzalez, Barton
Published 3/14/2008 by Kujo at Rockin' the Red
... Yesterday also brought the big news of Mark Lamping's departure for a billion-dollar project in New York. It's tough to see a local boy (St. John Vianney high school, Saint Louis University) leave, as Mark had a pretty positive reign in St. Louis, but it seems like it was a great opportunity for him to take. Good luck to him in his future endeavors. ...

Cards exec is new head of Giants/Jets stadium project
Published 3/14/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
I guess I now know whom to talk to about making sure they serve rice pudding in the new Giants/Jets Stadium press box. There's a new CEO in town.

Cards president quits to head Meadowlands
Published 3/14/2008 by Tom Weir at Sports Scope
St. Louis Cardinals team president Mark Lamping is leaving the club to become CEO of the New Meadowlands Stadium Company, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports . In Lamping's new post, he will oversee the $1.4 billion stadium project that will be the new home to New York's two NFL teams, the Giants and the Jets. Highlights of Lamping's 13-year run as Cardinals' president were a 10th World Series title for the team in 2006 and the opening of the new Busch Stadium. Lamping will be succeeded as president, the P-D reported, by Bill DeWitt III, the 40-year-old son of Cardinals ...

Adding an Arm
Published 3/14/2008 by Mike at Spring Training '08
... The other big news in Cardinal land is that team president Mark Lamping has resigned to take a job in New York.  Lamping had been in St. Louis for 13 years and presided over a great stretch of Cardinal baseball.  His tenure has been ...