Baseball: After 34 years, baseball returns to Washington
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Forget the mayhem in Iraq, the presidential elections, even last night&#39;s candidates&#39; debate. A banner headline yesterday in The Washington Post proclaimed the only news in
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Exactly 33 years after the Washington Senators played their final game, the nation&#39;s capital might learn on Thursday that major-league baseball plans to return next season.
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Major League Baseball informed Washington today that the Montreal Expos would relocate to the city in time for Opening Day in 2005, returning baseball to the nation&#39;s capital after a 33-year absence.
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Major League Baseball will announce today that Washington will be the new home of the Montreal Expos, the Associated Press has learned.
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With a new name, a new logo and a new generation of baseball fans, the nation&#39;s capital now has a new baseball team, the Nationals.
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Major League Baseball will announce Wednesday that Washington will be the new home of the Montreal Expos, bringing the national pastime back to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years, The Associated Press has learned.
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The 73-year-old former Washington Senators public address announcer was not about to let a protester ruin another big baseball day in the nation&#39;s capital.
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The Washington Nationals will open the 2007 season at home, the first time since baseball returned to the District that the club will play its first game at RFK Stadium. The Nationals took full-fledged infield practice for one of the few times all season yesterday afternoon, a move made at the...
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Washington&#39;s baseball team, formerly the Montreal Expos, has found a general manager for the time being at least.
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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 has chosen Washington, DC as the new home of the Montreal Expos, a city official has told The Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON - 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.   "After 30 years of waiting and waiting and waiting," said Mayor Anthony Williams, adding dramatic pauses for emphasis, "and lots of hard work and more than a few prayers, there will be baseball in Washington in 2005!"   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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WASHINGTON - The last time Washington's major league baseball team played a home game, fans stormed the field with two outs in the ninth inning in a show of anger and frustration over owner Bob Short's decision to move the team to Texas. But even then there was the expectation that in a relatively short time, major league baseball would find a way to put a team back in Washington...
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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.
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Major League Baseball selected  Washington, D.C., as the new home for the Montreal Expos on  Wednesday, bringing the iconic American sport back to the U.S.  capital after a 33-year absence.
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The question of whether baseball will now jerk its franchise out of Washington is a mere foregone conclusion. Why would baseball come here? We have pulled a bait-and-switch on the sport.
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WASHINGTON - Baseball is returning to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years, in the form of the Montreal Expos. Major League Baseball announced Wednesday the team is moving to Washington to begin play at RFK Stadium in the 2005 season...