Yesterday's Oregonian had an article about the City of Milwaukie's interest in building a baseball park and convincing a Northwest League short-season Single-A team to relocate. Here's the story.
I find readers comments in these types of stories very interesting. In this story, there seemed to be several "history-revisionists" at work. Or maybe I should call them people living in their own version of reality. I'm referring to the ones who claim people in Portland don't like baseball, or who won't attend a baseball game. Perhaps those people should be reminded of the very last Portland Beavers baseball game on September 6, 2010. In a lot of cities, when it's known that a team is leaving town, fans lose interest or get disgusted and stop going to games. But the last Beavers game was a sellout. During the last out, people got to their feet and roared for a victory, so much so that the batter stepped out, dumbfounded by such enthusiasm over a meaningless game on the last day of the season.
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