A 3-Decade Campaign Is Over: Baseball Is Back in Washington
16710
In the first relocation of a major league team since last time the Washington Senators left, the Expos are headed to the nation's capital.
674398
The Oakland Athletics swept away years of first-round futility.
570475
The Washington Nationals are back in business. A week after the deal to move the Montreal Expos to the nation's capital appeared dead, it was revived Tuesday when the District of Columbia Council voted 7-6 to approve stadium funding legislation.
642704
Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Just two weeks after the Washington Nationals shut down business and promotional operations over a ballpark financing dispute, mayor Anthony A. Williams signed a funding bill Tuesday that officially brings major league
607235
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.
119905
com. Almost 33 years to the date of the Senators&#39; final game in Washington, DC, the District and Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced that the Montreal Expos are moving to the nation&#39;s capital.
107539
WASHINGTON - Richard Nixon was president and man was still making trips to the moon the last time the word "Washington" appeared in the major league baseball standings. On opening day, April 4, 2005, look for the nation's capital to return...
409935
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...
20047
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.
641160
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.
530998
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.
520832
Baseball returned to Japan on Monday after all weekend games were wiped out by the first players' strike in the sport's 70-year history in the country.
570190
fter two and a half years in limbo as a ward of Major League Baseball, the Montreal Expos appear to be heading to a new home in Washington, which has had its Senators leave twice for other
326534
MONTREAL - The Expos era in Montreal ended with a 9-1 loss to Florida on Wednesday night, a game delayed for 10 minutes when players were pulled off the field after a fan threw a golf ball that landed near second base.    Hours after baseball announced that the 36-year-old franchise will be moved next season to Washington, D.C., a crowd of 31,395 showed up at Olympic Stadium for its final chance to say farewell...
332971
District of Columbia officials moved yesterday to salvage an agreement to bring baseball back to the United States&#39; capital, after a tense week that had subjected them to ridicule
126646
WASHINGTON - Baseballâs response to Washingtonâs lawmakers was strong, swift and ominous. Or, as Mayor Anthony A. Williams put it: âThe dream of 33 years is now once again close to dying.
428839
The House helped baseball begin to crack down on steroids three years ago. But by stepping into the Roger Clemens mess, Washington can only strike out