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The expansion committee assigned by Fels Napier has made its recommendation for expansion. There will be no negotiation with the owners as they agreed to give him a blank check to handle baseball and all its issues allowing him unbridled control of the process’ of Marketing, expansion and handling any legal issues as well as dealing with Congress and the officials from New York who have a lot of buddies in DC. One of the expansion teams biggest concerns was getting 2 team out west to enter the American League. The Committees first choice for expansion is:
California City, California is nestled in the heart of the Mojave Desert less than 2 hours from Los Angeles and an hour from Bakersfield. California City is the Brainchild of Nate K Mendelsohn, President of The California City Development Company and Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Mendelson began buying up desert land in 1956 for pennies on the dollar and had over 82,000 acres at his disposal. His work with the Cotton and alfalfa industries on their irrigation problems has served him well in his Social endeavors and California City is expected to be the next great metropolis in California.
Expansion team #2 is:
The owners and Congress forced an agreement on Fels that in the interest of the integrity of the game that he would not be allowed to put a team in his first choice of Las Vegas. Napier pulled a rabbit out of his hat and stunned the owners with the announcement that the Reno Gamblers would be joining the American League along with California City.
Reno another Desert City is less than 40 minutes from Carson City, Virginia City and Lake Tahoe California. Rumors already run amuck that Napier will be receiving kickbacks from Professor Mendelson and his cohorts who own the Irrigations companies.
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