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Tax pitch gets Yankees and Mets off-field success

September 30 2006

The Yankees and the Mets, New York's two Major League Baseball teams are financing moves to new stadia with an innovative tax-exempt bond structure. Claire Jones looks at the structure's development and why it could change how the construction of sports grounds are financed in the US

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