What Texas city fell short of being able to field a baseball team in 2000?
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I think it's one of those "trick" questions that actually has nothing to do with baseball.  I've seen this before, and they might be looking for a city that has less than nine people - get it?  Fell short of being able to field a team of 9 players?  I know that sounds dumb, but that's what I've seen given as the answer:\n\nhttp://www.duno.com/answer.php?qid=1804\n\nOne of the cities mentioned here, Guerra, did actually have 8 people according to the 2000 census:\n\nhttp://www.city-data.com/city/Guerra-Texas.html\n\nI'm pretty sure it's just a silly trick question.
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Try doing a search on Yahoo or Google.\n\nYou could also try www.mlb.com and then look for major league baseball teams farm teams.\n\nYou can pretty well find any baseball team this way.
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David Dellucci is a one-dimensional scrub. Philadelphia fell in love with the 29 home runs he hit last season for Texass. What they should've considered is that the HR total was probably steroid influenced (think Brady Anderson and 50 HRs in 1996), that Texass plays at the joke known as Ameriquest Bandbox Field, and that in the tradition of most Texass Ranger hitters, all Dellucci does is swing from the heels and try to hit the ball out of the park.
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Houston\nSt. Louis\nDallas\nIndianapolis\n\nNew York City, Chicago and San Francisco would have a hard time because there isn't much area in the city itself to build all the facilities, nor are there facilities that would work well for all the sports. It has to be a city with room to spread around it and area to build the facilities.
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There was no need.  People went to the stadium to enjoy the baseball game.  Imagine that.  They didn't need luxury boxes, food courts, playgrounds, futuristic scoreboards, picnic areas, restaurants, museums, or swimming pools to entice them to go see a game.  The talent on the field used to be enough; still is for me.
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More power to them.  LA has not been awarded a team because they (like san Diego) refuse to build a new stadium.  They want a team to share the colesium and that's not even cool..  If Chula wants to build them a stadium, Good for them!
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no where your in the middle of Texas
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At the end of the 1900 season the American League re-organized and, with its president Ban Johnson as the driving force, decided to assert itself as a new major league. Previously a minor league (known as the Western League until 1899), the American League carried over five of its previous locations and added three more on the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, Maryland, which had lost its National League team when that league contracted the year before. The intention of Johnson and the American League had been to place a team in New York City, but their efforts had been stymied by the political connections that owners of the National League New York Giants had with Tammany Hall.\n\nWhen the team began play as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, they were managed by John McGraw. As a result of a feud with league president Ban Johnson, who rigidly enforced rules about rowdyism on the field of play, McGraw jumped leagues to manage the New York Giants in the middle of the 1902 season. A week later the owner of the Giants also gained controlling interest of the Orioles and raided the team for players, after which the league declared the team forfeit and took control, still intending to move the franchise to New York when and if possible.\n\nIn January 1903, the American and National Leagues held a "peace conference" to settle conflicts over player contract disputes and to agree on future cooperation. The NL also agreed that the "junior circuit" could establish a franchise in New York. The AL's Baltimore franchise became the New York franchise when its new owners, Frank Farrell and William Devery, were able to find a ballpark location not blocked by the Giants. Farrell and Devery both had deep ties into city politics and gambling. Farrell owned a casino and several pool halls, while Devery had served as a blatantly corrupt chief of the New York City police and had only been forced out of the department at the start of 1902.\n\nThe Highlanders\nThe franchise's first park in New York was located at 165th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, near the highest point on the island. Consequently the field was known as Hilltop Park and the team quickly became known as the New York Highlanders. The name was also a reference to the noted British military unit The Gordon Highlanders, as the team president from 1903 to 1906 was named Joseph Gordon. Today the site of the original Hilltop Park is occupied by buildings of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.\n\nAs the Highlanders, the team enjoyed success only twice, finishing in second place in 1904 and 1910; but otherwise, much of their first fifteen years in New York was spent in the cellar. Their somewhat tainted ownership, along with the questionable activities of some players, notably first baseman Hal Chase, raised suspicions of game-fixing, but little of that was ever proven.\n\nTheir best chance came on the last day of the 1904 season, at the Hilltop. New York pitcher Jack Chesbro threw a wild pitch in the ninth inning which allowed the eventual pennant-winning run to score for the Boston Americans. This event had historical significance in several ways. First, the presence of the Highlanders in the race had led the Giants to announce they would not participate in the World Series against a "minor league" team. Although Boston had won the pennant, the Giants still refused to participate. The resulting tongue-lashing of the Giants by the media stung their owner, John T. Brush, who then led a committee that formalized the rules governing the World Series. 1904 was the last year a Series was not played, until the strike-truncated year of 1994. For fans of the team formally named the Red Sox in 1908, the 1904 season-ender would prove to be the last time Boston would defeat the Yankees in a pennant-deciding game for literally a century.\n\nFrom 1913 to 1922 the team would play in the Polo Grounds, a park owned by their National League rivals, the Giants. R
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Try this website:\nhttp://www.city-data.com/city/Texas.html\n\nIt gives you the population of ALL the cities in Texas.
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I live in Montana, where there are no pro teams. They are not so big here, they like either the Twins or the Mariners here. They probably like the Astros (or Rangers) in states near TX that don't have their own teams, like OK, NM or LA. Sorry, sad, but true.
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They could have tried harder. Soriano was their big man and big draw. Shame.
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They probably should try but I don't think he will sign with them.  Most likely he will go to one of the Texas teams, Boston or retire after the WBC.
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No, but I you are th e1 that made  a comment about my question "what is your favorite team" & you said that you liked Dale Jr. and the Longhorns , am I right???\n\nP.S. I think you can find them on the internet , go to Yahoo! Local an dtype in recreational softball and where it says city puot Dallas , Texas!!!!!
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Major League Baseball has a franchise in Houston - The Astros.  They play in the National League.
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It would be a good trade cause Texas needs pitching. However, Teixera is one of the Rangers better offensive weapons.
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Since the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore in 1954, I don't think they have a homepage.  You can check some of the historical baseball sites - though it'll be a bit of a fishing expedition.
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In order for a small market team like Minnesota to compete, they will have to get a ball park that generates revenue (More Luxary Boxes, more high end seats.  A new ballpark generates bigger crowds as the festive atmosphere is much better than it is in a stale, dare I say boring evironment like the Metrodome.  \n\nThe Twins stadium, if it is to be funded by the tax payers will need to pass a referendum. Carl Polhad, Twins Owner, has state that if he can't get a new stadium, the Twins may have to move.