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EDITOR: Great article on minor-league baseball. I was one of the original season ticket holders with the Crushers -- at one time I controlled 12 seats for the full season and I ended up with 8 -- probably making me the best customer in the WBL.
I attended a Sacramento River Cats game last year and was really impressed with the facility. It was night and day different from
I would like to suggest
GLEN HUNTSBERGER
Santa Rosa
EDITOR'S NOTE: Pro sports are not allowed at
EDITOR: I imagine that a few people, besides myself, will suggest that the new stadium be sited next to the new casino/resort hotel near
I was a season ticket holder with the Crushers every season, the foggy weather could be a factor some evenings but that would be an issue wherever the new facility was placed near 101. The Native Americans involved might even be willing to become partners in and/or developers of the stadium. I sure hope that it works out somewhere around here!
Cotati
EDITOR: I would love to see a minor-league stadium, and I think a location that deserves attention would be at the
BRIAN BERTOLI
EDITOR: Bravo for the folks who still want to make minor-league baseball happen here. What about all that land just beyond the new housing subdivisions along Stony Point Road, right after Northpoint Parkway? It seems possible that with housing nearby, the sewer and water needs would be addressable. The freeway access is present, and Starbucks, a sure sign of cosmopolitan development, just went in nearby.
It would be a much better use of that land than present, which, near as I can tell, consists of locked "evidence" bunkers that, aside from providing shelter for the homeless, serve no other purpose other than to be a dark and useless place no sensible person should go. I understand that this land might be protected as "open space," rendering it untouchable. If so, that's sad.
MATTHEW T. WITTHAUS
Editor: I read Ralph Leef's column and I think
GERRY RAMSEY
EDITOR: I read with great enthusiasm Ralph Leef's articles about the potential for Class A professional baseball in
I was really looking forward to taking both my boys to future Crusher games, so when the team disbanded it was disappointing. I did take my kids to a ballgame this summer in
I look forward to reading updates on the status of Chris Lee's attempts to bring pro ball back to
KEVIN MAUCH
EDITOR: As someone who regularly saw the Crushers with my grandson and his friends, it was shocking to see the
Let's get it done.
MICHAEL A. TOMS
EDITOR: I'd like to suggest that the Open Space District set aside the land for a minor-league ballpark.
I believe that what the public really intended when they approved the tax was to simply have more places to enjoy. Places that weren't boxed-in by office space or apartment buildings, places that didn't look like urban sprawl was taking over and places they could possibly use for recreational purposes.
After the early "out of touch years" of spending millions of tax dollars on thousands of acres that most of us will never even see, I don't think it's too much to ask for 20 acres next to 101 for a pretty little ballpark that will touch so many people's lives.
There's never going to be enough money in the budget, so we just have to decide as a community that if we're going to live and work and sit in traffic in
KEVIN WOLSKI
EDITOR: Great news and article about the potential of a Class-A team for the
Can I please get Chris Lee's e-mail to further discuss acquiring a team and building a stadium.
LOU TULIPANO