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Baseball in Los Angeles, California: City of Anaheim V. Angels Baseball Lp, 1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game |  | Creator: Books LLC
Publisher: Books LLC
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 24
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0
ISBN: 1156347955
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781156347959
ASIN: 1156347955
Publication Date: May 28, 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: City of Anaheim V. Angels Baseball Lp, 1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Excerpt: City of Anaheim v. Angels Baseball LP is a lawsuit filed in Orange County, California Superior Court by the city of Anaheim, California against the owners of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Major League Baseball franchise, concerning the team's official name. The lawsuit and a related political and public relations battle sought to reverse the team's official name change from Anaheim Angels to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, which the city characterized the change as a breach of the team's lease on the city-owned Angel Stadium of Anaheim. The city was unsuccessful, as both a trial jury and an appellate court ruled in the team's favor. The Angels franchise was founded as the Los Angeles Angels in 1961 and played under that name until 1965, when it changed its name to California Angels upon its move from Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium to the new Anaheim Stadium (now Angel Stadium of Anaheim). In 1996, the Angels and the city of Anaheim agreed on a new lease that called for the city to fund renovations to Anaheim Stadium, and called for the team's name to contain the name "Anaheim". The following year, the team's official name changed again to Anaheim Angels. In 2003, the team was sold to Arturo "Arte" Moreno. Less than two years later, the team announced it was changing its name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, an attempt to market the team as being from Southern CaliforniaMajor League Baseball's second-largest media marketrather than just Orange County. The "of Anaheim" phrase was included to comply with the terms of the 1996 lease. Anaheim city officials immediately denounced the change, characterizing it as a b... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1869861
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