It’s a marketing bonanza.’ It is as unique a set of circumstances as you will find.”

It’s a marketing bonanza.’ It is as unique a set of circumstances as you will find.”

It’s a marketing bonanza.’ It is as unique a set of circumstances as you will find.”br Freier, who owns two other minor league clubs, saidbr that before Tebow arrived here, he and members of his staff researched the next-closest set of circumstances: Michael Jordan’s foray into minor league baseball in 1994 for the Class AA Birmingham Barons.br Still, Jason Freier, the owner of the Fireflies, said the team had been hoping for months — ever since the Metsbr signed Tebow last September on what almost seemed to be a whim — that he would be assigned to Columbia.br “When you think about what he represents,” Benjamin said, “even in a Class A minor league system, he may in fact be the new face of baseball.”br That would seem to be an overstatement, but then again that’s what a little bit of Tebowmania can do to you.br Freier said even fellow owners around the league were asking when the decision would be made official.br In his very first at-bat for the Columbia Fireflies, the Mets’ Class A affiliate in the South Atlantic League, Tebow added another chapter to his enduringbr story by blasting a home run, delighting the 10,000 fans who had come to watch him, many of them wearing Tebow jerseys in all sorts of colors.br Over the past few months, they have been in constant communication with the Mets — in part at the urgingbr of Benjamin, who said he pestered the Fireflies’ team president, John Katz, nonstop to prod the Mets.


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