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The fact that there's such enthusiastic and widespread talk on the Atlantic League -- both positive and negative -- is truly great, and I look forward to being the same sort of savant for the new Northern Virginia club when it comes into existence soon. And it will. A few bullet points about the new...

From the Loudoun Times-Mirror: http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2009/dec/16/developers-submit-plans-second-baseball-stadium Developers to submit plans for second baseball stadium By Crystal Owens Source: Loudoun Times-Mirror WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 2009 UPDATED WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 2009 While one d...

From the Loudoun Times-Mirror: http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2009/dec/16/developers-submit-plans-second-baseball-stadium Developers to submit plans for second baseball stadium By Crystal Owens Source: Loudoun Times-Mirror WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 2009 UPDATED WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 2009 While one d...

From the Loudoun Times-Mirror: http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2009/dec/15/ballgame-comes-name-game Before the ballgame comes the name game By Barbara Payne Source: Loudoun Times-Mirror TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 2009 UPDATED WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 2009 VIP Baseball, the group interested in bringing mino...

I attended the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors public hearing June 8 concerning the application for the special exemption to the county's comprehensive plan that would permit the type of development that would include the ballpark. I met Harmon Killebrew and the rest of the Kincora Baseball Advi...

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/200...baseball-board Lead paragraph: "Hall of Famers Harmon Killebrew and Brooks Robinson were introduced May 29 as members of the Kincora Baseball Advisory Board, a body that hopes to bring professional baseball to Loudoun County." Links and press release...

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/2009/may/29/hall-famers-loudoun-baseball-board Lead paragraph: "Hall of Famers Harmon Killebrew and Brooks Robinson were introduced May 29 as members of the Kincora Baseball Advisory Board, a body that hopes to bring professional baseball to Loudoun County.&quo...

Please see an interview with Bob Farren of VIP Baseball about their efforts (and the crucial county board vote) to build a ballpark to bring an Atlantic League franchise to Loudoun County: loudountimes.com (YouTube video up temporarily) youtube.com/user/loudountimesdotcom And this blog: http://www.l...

I am a local sportswriter and claim dibs on the beat when finally (finally!) professional baseball surfaces in the western suburbs. However, knowing the NIMBY-polluted politics of the area, doubtless it will be multiple years before the ballpark, in congruence with the large commercial/residential d...

Few would be happier than I to see professional baseball return to Johnstown, and I have seen construction around the Point recently, but can someone prove to me that there is serious consideration for pro ball coming back? I like Johnstown very much, and it's a fairly easy drive for me from Norther...