Baseball and Westward Expansion

What is your highest priority if you own a baseball team?

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2013 MLB and AAA

Resources• US at night: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/712129main_8247975848_88635d38a1_o.jpg• Sandlot kids: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2008008695/• Stickball: http://www.soulcatcherstudio.com/images/artistpages/leipzig/stickball50.jpg• Little League team: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/AMALL:@field%28NUMBER+@band

%28codhawp+00190925%29%29• Union Prisoners at Salisbury, NC: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/09300/09312v.jpg• USS Washington: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002706062/resource/• Toronto: http://mopupduty.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Blue-Jays-Home-Opener.jpg• Great Pyramid: http://dmbworldseriesreplay.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/pyramids.jpg• Pond hockey: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/nclc/02500/02526v.jpg

• Metropolitan Map : (2004) http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/msa_maps2004/msa2004_previews_htm/cbsa_us_wall_1104.htm

• http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/– Figures 2 and 13: 1950– Tables 5 &6, Figures 4 & 42: 1960