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DC ponying up for Expos?

By By Jim Baker
MLB Insider

Thursday, May 8, 2003

The mayor of Washington raised the stakes in the Expos sweepstakes considerably yesterday when he asked for approval of a $338 million stadium bill package. This figure would include a small portion for upgrading RFK Stadium so that it will be more spiffy for the interim period in which the new ballpark would be under construction. Of the three locales vying for right to bring in the Expos (Portland, Oregon and Northern Virginia being the others), Washington, DC has now promised the most amoun ...

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