Ken Babby
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2,003 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 May
Ken Babby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you add other events and um you know, everything from savanna bananas to concerts and festivals, you're talking about in the new development, you know, nearly two hundred events a year.
Uh
And that's part of the way that we think about the economic impact in visitors.
But I think when you take a take a step back and look at uh you know impact in a project like this, you have to start and look at the community that we're serving.
And I came from the world of minor league baseball.
You know, I spent the first 14 years of my career in the media business at the Washington Post.
I ran the the digital business and was the company's
Chief Revenue Officer, a newspaper, it's particularly in those days the world's changed, but a newspaper is a community business.
It's serving a community.
It's bringing information and content to make the community a better place.
And then I had the great pleasure of of of pursuing my passion and getting into baseball.
And I bought our first team in Akron, Ohio.
The Akron Rubber Ducks, by the way, home of f home of not only LeBron James, but the rubber capital, the world Goodyear and and BF Goodrich early on and the other talk about localizing a business.
A
Tough town.
Very great a great town.
Very blue collar tough town.
Blue collar town.
And what I realized early in my time in Ohio and it and it and it turned out to be true in Jacksonville, it'll be turned out to be it'll turn out to be here true in Tampa Bay.
is you have to make a ballpark a part of the community.
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