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Excerpt from The Key Issues Confronting Minor League Baseball: Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, Washington, DC, July 20, 1994
In the years before the impact of these new standards - 1990, 1991, and 1992 - the total number of minor league franchise reloca tions were two in 1990, four in 1991, four in 1992. As the stand ards had their impact, the number of relocations jumped to 14 in 1993, 13 in 1994, and probably a similar number or higher in 1995. In other words, cities today are losing their teams.
It is the smaller communities, the very communities that you talked about earlier, that will likely be hit the hardest. From 1987 to 1993, two-thirds of the franchise relocations were from towns of less than in population. The vice president of the National Association testified before a House subcommittee that, and I quote, One of the principal benefits of minor league baseball is to bring the game of organized baseball to small town and rural America.
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