Baseball Returns to DC After 33-Year Absence
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Major League Baseball selected Washington, DC, as the new home for the Montreal Expos on Wednesday, bringing the iconic American sport back to the US capital after a 33-year absence.
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Washington Mayor Anthony Williams, center, DC Sports Commission Chairman Mark Tuohey, left, and others, look on as the DC City Council debates stadium finance legislation for the return of Major League Baseball returning to Washington, Tuesday.
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It was more pep rally than news conference, with the mayor and city officials wearing red Washington Senators caps, the ones with the curly "W" on the front. Baseball returned to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years Wednesday, with an announcement from Major League Baseball that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next season.
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Beaming like a kid who'd just met his favorite sports hero, Mayor Anthony A. Williams signed legislation Wednesday to bring major-league baseball back to the nation's capital.
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The last time the nation&#39;s capital was home to the national pastime, the game was literally a riot. Fans stormed the field with two outs in the ninth inning of the Washington Senators&#39; farewell appearance at RFK Stadium on Sept.
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Major League Baseball&#39;s Washington, DC franchise finally got a name Monday, nearly two months after the team relocated from Montreal.
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NEW YORK Thursday will be exactly 33 years since the Washington Senators played their final game, and that&#39;s the day the nation&#39;s capital may learn that the Expos are coming.
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Major League Baseball is back in the nation&#39;s capital for the first time since the Washington Senators team moved to Texas and became the Rangers in 1971.
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams took the final step in bringing baseball back to the District of Columbia on Wednesday, signing a long-awaited funding bill for building of a new stadium.
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Reasonable people can disagree about Mayor Anthony Williams's latest plan for bringing professional baseball back to Washington. Unfortunately, a lot of the discussion so far has been based on misleading vocabulary and faulty assumptions. As the D.C. Council considers further action today, here's a business columnist's guide for thinking about the issue:
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Almost two years after he retired, Troy Percival returned to the big leagues.
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DC's former mayor takes a new role in government
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Seventy-three-year-old former Washington Senators public address announcer Charlie Brotman wrestled a protester out of the way, clearing the stage for the Montreal Expos to be rechristened the Washington Nationals. With approval from baseball owners and a ballpark funding package still pending, the franchise forged ahead yesterday with a splashy ceremony before hundreds of fans in the grand hall at Union ...
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Major League Baseball is expected to announce tomorrow that the Montreal Expos will move to the District, and anticipation yesterday surged in Washington that the city&#39;s 33-year baseball drought is finally at an end.
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It was 3:45 pm ET on Wednesday afternoon when Expos president Tony Tavares held a team meeting to inform the players that the Expos franchise would be relocated to Washington, DC, starting in 2005.
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Maybe the idea of financing a new stadium here for the relocated Montreal Expos seemed easy last month when the city received the news that Major League Baseball would send the team to the nation&#39;s capital.
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Washington, DC, City Council is due to debate stadium funding again today in an attempt to keep Major League Baseballâs return to the city from being stillborn.