Residents From Around Region Rally for Baseball Stadium
By
Scott Dickens
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Residents from Loudoun and Fairfax counties and as far away as Maryland, young children and old men, grandfathers, uncles, parents, baseball coaches, small business owners, hotel managers and one recognizable Hall of Famer, all joined together to voice their support for minor league baseball in Loudoun on Monday at a public input session before the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.
Following a brief rally in the courtyard in front of the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, dozens of area residents took to the podium in support of a special exception that would allow zoning for the construction of a minor league baseball stadium at the intersection of Routes 28 and 7 in Ashburn.
Sharing childhood memories of baseball games and calling for investment in economic opportunities within the county, those present displayed resounding support, which would continue the process of bringing a new Atlantic League franchise to the area.
“Baseball is about connecting generations,” Former Baltimore Oriole third baseman and Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson said. “I think everyone here probably has a baseball memory.
Robinson greeted local residents, signed autographs and posed for pictures before stepping to the podium to endorse the Virginia Investment Partners’ (VIP) bid to bring baseball to Loudoun. Robinson, along with fellow Hall of Famer and Washington Senator Harmon Killebrew, baseball executives John Horshok and Peter Kirk and Dr. Tom Songster, who worked with the International Special Olympics, make up the Kincora Baseball Advisory Board, which has been an active proponent in the Kincora Stadium project. Robinson is a member of a group that currently owns three of the eight Atlantic League teams.
The Atlantic League is an independent minor league that is unaffiliated with major league ballclubs and lacks standard level classification. But Robinson did not hesitate to suggest the league’s merit and quality of play.
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Residents From Around Region Rally for Baseball Stadium
By Scott DickensBy Matt Brooks, originally published HERE on loudounextra.washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Following a brief rally in the courtyard in front of the Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg, dozens of area residents took to the podium in support of a special exception that would allow zoning for the construction of a minor league baseball stadium at the intersection of Routes 28 and 7 in Ashburn.
Sharing childhood memories of baseball games and calling for investment in economic opportunities within the county, those present displayed resounding support, which would continue the process of bringing a new Atlantic League franchise to the area.
“Baseball is about connecting generations,” Former Baltimore Oriole third baseman and Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson said. “I think everyone here probably has a baseball memory.
Robinson greeted local residents, signed autographs and posed for pictures before stepping to the podium to endorse the Virginia Investment Partners’ (VIP) bid to bring baseball to Loudoun. Robinson, along with fellow Hall of Famer and Washington Senator Harmon Killebrew, baseball executives John Horshok and Peter Kirk and Dr. Tom Songster, who worked with the International Special Olympics, make up the Kincora Baseball Advisory Board, which has been an active proponent in the Kincora Stadium project. Robinson is a member of a group that currently owns three of the eight Atlantic League teams.
The Atlantic League is an independent minor league that is unaffiliated with major league ballclubs and lacks standard level classification. But Robinson did not hesitate to suggest the league’s merit and quality of play.
(Read more…)HERE on loudounextra.washingtonpost.com