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Arizona Diamondbacks: 1997 Major League Baseball Expansion Draft, 1998 Major League Baseball Expansion |  | Creator: Books LLC
Publisher: Books LLC
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.14
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.1
ISBN: 1157398324
EAN: 9781157398325
ASIN: 1157398324
Publication Date: May 30, 2010
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1997 Major League Baseball Expansion Draft, 1998 Major League Baseball Expansion, List of Arizona Diamondbacks Team Records, the Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty. Excerpt: The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark). Also known as the D-backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only 3 years since their expansion in 1998. Between 1940 and 1990, Phoenix jumped from the 99th largest city in the nation to the 9th largest. As such, it was frequently mentioned as a possible location for either a new or relocated MLB franchise. Baseball had a rich tradition in Arizona long before talk of bringing a big-league team even started. The state has been a frequent spring training site since 1946. With the large numbers of people relocating to the state from the Midwest and the Northeast, as well as from California, many teams (most notably the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers) have normally had large followings in Arizona. The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's single-A minor league baseball team and an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. In the late 1980s Stone approached St. Louis (football) Cardinals owner Bill Bidwill about sharing a proposed 70,000 seat domed stadium in Phoenix. It was taken for granted that a domed stadium was essential for a major-league team to be a viable venture in the Phoenix area. Phoenix is by far the hottest ma... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2129
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