Baseball in DC? You can forget it now
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Late Tuesday night, in the 11th hour of a marathon DC Council meeting, chairman Linda W. Cropp blew to smithereens the deal that MLB thought it had in place with Washington to build a ballpark on the Anacostia waterfront.
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Washington&#39;s new baseball team shut down business and promotional operations indefinitely Wednesday as its move to the nation&#39;s capital teetered on the brink of collapse.
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The Washington area's 33-year effort to acquire a Major League Baseball team has produced plenty of agonizing near-misses.  There is a good chance that won't happen this time.
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D.C. mayor signs legislation that will bring baseball back.
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The deal to bring baseball back to  Washington, D.C, was described by Mayor Anthony Williams as  close to dead Wednesday after the City Council changed the plan  to require private financing, a move Major League Baseball  (MLB) called unacceptable.
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The Washington, DC, baseball team has scheduled a news conference for Monday, at which time the ballclub will get its new name, according to numerous published reports attributing unnamed sources in baseball and DC government.
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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 (Sports Network) - Professional baseball appears  ready to make a return to the nation's capital, as an  announcement could come later this week that the Montreal Expos  will be relocated to Washington, DC for the 2005 season.
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Washington's new baseball team shut down business and promotional operations indefinitely Wednesday as its move to the nation's capital teetered on the brink of collapse.
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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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Major League Baseball is poised to cancel the move of the Montreal Expos to Washington after the District of Columbia Council Tuesday night amended the agreement for a riverfront stadium by requiring 50 percent private financing.
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Fans cried. Players, too. The Expos bid farewell to Montreal on a touching night at Olympic Stadium, losing 9-1 Wednesday to the Florida Marlins just hours after baseball announced that the 36-year-old team will be moved next season to Washington, D.C.
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If Major League Baseball and the District of Columbia Council fail to reach an agreement to keep the Nationals in Washington, baseball would be faced with the difficult question
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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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DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams postponed an out-of-town trip, cleared his schedule and sat through nearly four hours of fractious debate yesterday over his plan to bring baseball back to the nation&#39;s capital.
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NEW YORK - Washington&#39;s new baseball team shut down business and promotional operations indefinitely Wednesday as its move to the nation&#39;s capital teetered on the brink of collapse.
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Major League Baseball is moving the Montreal Expos to Washington DC The city has been without a Major League team since the Senators team moved to Texas and became the Rangers in 1971.