Nationals Store Reopens After Stadium Deal Sealed
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Dozens of people lined up outside of a Washington Nationals store at RFK stadium Wednesday. By 11 am about 50 people were in line and waiting around 30 minutes to buy Nationals merchandise.
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Nationals gear with the team's logo popped up on eBay this week.
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Baseball fans in the nation's capital can start dreaming again of their first Opening Day in 33 years.
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Everything involving the Washington Nationals stalled yesterday. No uniforms were unveiled. Fans were offered the opportunity to get refunds for tickets, rather than the chance to make new purchases.
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The Expos cleared another logistical hurdle in their move to Washington on Friday, announcing an agreement with Ticketmaster to handle ticket sales.
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Alfonso Soriano still has great times at RFK Stadium, even when he's wearing another team's uniform. Soriano returned Monday night to the stadium that helped earn him a nine-digit contract and looked right at home again, getting two hits, a run, an RBI and a stolen base in the Chicago Cubs' 7-2 victory over the Washington Nationals.
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Major league baseball's return to the nation's capital will be under the lights. The Washington Nationals said Thursday they will play their April 14 home opener against Arizona at 7:05 p.m. It will be the first regular-season game at RFK Stadium since the expansion Washington Senators left after the 1971 season and became the Texas Rangers.
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With approval by baseball owners and a ballpark funding package pending, the Montreal Expos were rechristened the Washington Nationals on Monday with a splashy ceremony before hundreds
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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. 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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Their dispositions were as sunny as the Florida day that greeted them, their outlook as bright as the immaculate red practice jerseys that hung in neat rows along the lockers. Pitchers, catchers and assorted other players reported for spring training at Space Coast Stadium on Tuesday, flush with relief and satisfaction that they are something new called the Washington Nationals.
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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. The decision by major league baseball followed the D.C. Council's decision Tuesday to require private financing for at least half the cost of building a new stadium.
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City and team officials announced at a Monday press conference at the Main Hall in Union Station that Washington, DC&#39;s baseball team would be named the Nationals.
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District of Columbia Mayor Anthony A. Williams and Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp reached agreement last night on a stadium financing package that they said will satisfy Major League Baseball by guaranteeing construction of a permanent home for the Washington Nationals along the Anacostia waterfront.
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The group that buys the Montreal Expos will get to keep all concession, advertising and parking money generated from baseball games in the 41,000-seat ballpark that Washington plans to build, along with revenue from the sale of naming rights.
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony  Williams on Wednesday signed a nearly $1 billion stadium  funding package, clearing the way for the city to begin work on  a ballpark for a Major League Baseball team.
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District of Columbia Council Chairman Linda Cropp, left, and Washington Mayor Tony Williams announce a baseball stadium financing agreement they say is acceptable to Major League Baseball during a news conference in Washington, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004.
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The Expos president has lists prepared and plans in place to close up shop in Montreal and rebuild the franchise in Washington. He&#39;ll begin to act once Major League Baseball confirms the club&#39;s move, something which could happen as soon as Thursday.