19910409 r-91-14RESOLUTION NO. R-91-14
RESOLUTION URGING THE NATIONAL LEAGUE EXPANSION COMMITTEE
TO BRING BASEBALL BACK TO WASHINGTON IN 1993
WHEREAS, the Nation's Capital has been without a major league
baseball team for twenty years and an entire generation of
Washington kids has been deprived of the thrill of rooting for the
home-town team; and
WHEREAS, the National League Expansion Committee will soon
visit Washington in its efforts to select two expansion franchises
for the 1993 season; and
WHEREAS, in addition to its prestige as the Nation's Capital,
Washington has a number of outstanding assets that make it an
obvious choice by the Expansion Committee: a metropolitan
population of four million; a rich and diverse economy; a top
television market; and an excellent stadium built for baseball and
well-served by a superb, high-speed subway; and
WHEREAS, the City of Fairfax has reaffirmed the position
previously taken by the Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments (Council) in June of 1984, supporting the efforts to
obtain a new major league baseball franchise for the Nation's
Capital.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Fairfax that:
1. The City Council expresses its continued support of
bringing major league baseball back to the Washington metropolitan
region.
2. The City Council expresses its support of the efforts of
the District of Columbia Commission on Baseball and Washington
Metropolitan Baseball in their efforts to bring baseball back to
Washington.
3. The city Council urges the National League Expansion
Committee to choose the Nation's Capital as one of the new baseball
franchises to begin operation in the 1993 season.
ATTEST:
ADOPTED, this 9th day of April, 1991.
II city C~erk
MAYOR