The Washington Post and the AP report on this lovely Sunday evening (when the Oscars are on the TV upstairs) that Major League Baseball has signed the lease passed last month by the DC City Council.
There will be baseball in town for a long time!
Those of you in non-baseball countries might not get this, but baseball is the national pastime of the United States. It was created at about the time of the Civil War, in the 19th century, shortly after this little experiment in republican democracy nearly failed forever.
The capital of the United States had been without a team for 34 years before last summer. Then the Montreal Expos were moved from Montreal (where nobody went to their games) to Washington (where 2.7 million people went to their games).
Thanks to Maury Brown of Baseball Journals for keeping all us Ballpark Guys up-to-date on the status of this ordeal throughout the winter. Now I can buy a new Nationals cap that fits properly, without fear of its becoming obsolete in a year.
Categories: baseball, washington-dc
Hooray, Hooray! I didn’t find out until Monday morning, when I picked up a Washington Post at the airport on the way out of town.
There are still hurdles to be jumped, and there is still some posturing, but this was the big one, and yes indeed there will be Baseball in Washington for the foreseeable future.
Now I need to buy some tickets and get set up to do a “going to the baseball game” podcast!
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