Major League Baseball has created incredible match-ups in recent years to honor the military like the game at Fort Bragg as well as honoring the youth in the Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. There were no geographic wranglings from the Pittsburgh Pirates or the Philadelphia Phillies like what just occurred with the Naval Academy Baseball Classic according to Jake Russell of the Washington Post.
According to Russell, there will be no more Washington Nationals hosting the Naval Academy Baseball Classic to be played in Annapolis due to territorial issues claimed by, you guessed it, the Baltimore Orioles!
From Russell’s article:
“[The Nationals] wanted to have a multiyear commitment but, because it was an agreement made in another club’s territory, it was then agreed that they could do the one year, but beyond that, that is really something that is in the Orioles’ territory,” an MLB official said.
“Ultimately it landed at our office that there’s an issue with a club doing something in another club’s territory and we had to resolve it,” the MLB official continued.
From the MLB Constitution
The NABC exhibition game was closed to fans and only open to Naval personnel and invited guests free of charge. If anything, the crowd was dominated by fans of all teams and it was a neutral crowd. This game had nothing to do with geography especially when you consider that the Naval Academy is located in Anne Arundel County which has both Nationals and Orioles fans and an easy ride down Route 50 to Nationals Park, but Peter Angelos used the MLB Constitution to enforce that the Nats would not play again in Orioles’ territory. Continue reading
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