Record Eagle: Baseball back in D.C.
Posted by: Leelanau Sports Guy on 
Apr 14th, 2005 | 
Filed under: Leland Comets
Petroskey, Harrah thrilled for nation’s capital
Record Eagle article by Jeff Peek
Traverse City – Dale Petroskey lived in Washington, D.C., for 18 years without ever seeing a Major League Baseball game there.
So the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum – a Michigan native with ties to the Traverse City area – is happy to see the game make a triumphant return to his former hometown.
“I’m thrilled,” Petroskey said Wednesday. “There should be baseball in D.C. It’s our nation’s capital and this is America’s game.
“I applaud the commissioner (Bud Selig) for bringing baseball back,” he said.
“I know he faced some opposition, but he bit the bullet and got it done.”
The Washington Nationals, formally the Montreal Expos, are scheduled to take the field against the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight at RFK Stadium for their home opener – the first in D.C. in 34 years.
My view: A good article from my local paper about baseball being back in the nation’s capital.
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