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Angels Baseball Scene- Name change? LA Angeles or Anaheim Angels
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| Angels Baseball Scene- Name change? LA Angeles or Anaheim Angels |
| 01.30.06 (11:14 am) [edit] |
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In the case, the City of Anaheim states that the name change is a transparent attempt to eliminate Anaheim from the team name completely. The Anaheim Angels are in the middle of a 33-year lease agreement with the City to play their home games in the City-owned stadium. The City contends that Angels Baseball LP's actions breach the lease agreement, which was intended to identify Anaheim with the team so as to publicize Anaheim as a major league city throughout the nation.
The Anaheim Mayor and City Council are unanimous in their strong disappointment over this recent action. They are united in insisting that the Anaheim Angels comply with the terms of their 33-year contract with the City.
The owner of the Angels insisted Friday in court testimony that renaming his team to include the words "Los Angeles" honors a 10-year-old lease with Anaheim.
Arte Moreno acknowledged that shortly after buying the team in 2003 he ordered staff to stop using the word Anaheim on team merchandise.
He said, however, that despite those orders the team's official name of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim satisfies the terms of a 1996 stadium lease agreement to keep Anaheim in the name.
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