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What are the territorial restrictions?

What is the distance away can a team be from another team?

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I believe it's 50 miles...inside that radius you have to get consent from the other team.

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Affiliated baseball used to utilize an exclusive 35-mile radius from the ballpark. No teams could relocate to a location where its new 35-mile territory would overlap with another club's without the...

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I had always understood it was a 50 mile radius.Counties will vary greatly in size. When do think it changed? The 80's?.....90's?

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Quote:I had always understood it was a 50 mile radius.No, Liebo nailed it.And counties with major cities really don't vary that much in size.--Kevin

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Interesting.........so when the Riverside franchise moved to Lancaster in 1996, they had to get the permission of:Bakersfield - 86 milesHigh Desert - 50 milesSan Bernardino - 73 milesRancho Cucamonga...

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Yes, Riverside did need the express permission of several clubs to wave territorial exclusivity so the franchise could relocate to Lancaster. But then again, the team needed the approval of those...

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I agree the only franchise impacted would have been the High Desert, fifty miles away. It just seems a fifty mile radius is far more quantifiable that an "adjoining county" But wait a minute, this is...

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Sam Lynn is a terrible stadium. Who built the stadium so home plate faces the west, just as the sun goes down on a hot summer night. Just a brilliant. There's always talk about a new stadium but...

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You'll admit you've been to "historic" Sam Lynn? Hey.....facing west is the least of it's problems. The seating areas are a joke. The women's restrooms are in the same building they were in 1947. And...

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Ah ha!............... I've just heard from my "highly placed" California League source. I am told Riverside did not have to obtain ANY territorial waivers when they moved to Lancaster. They "just...

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Quote:Sam Lynn is a terrible stadium. Who built the stadium so home plate faces the west, just as the sun goes down on a hot summer night. Just a brilliant.I'm unfamiliar with Sam Lynn's condition,...

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I agree with Ron that basing territories on county lines makes no sense. (But hey, as he also points out, this is baseball...) Kevin's assertion notwithstanding, the size of counties varies wildly...

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Sam Lynn was built in 1940 by the county. It originally consisted of a covered rectangular grandstand behind home plate flanked by bleachers down each line. Old fashion box seats (only two rows deep)...

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"About the only population center I can see that is viable/available in California for a minor league franchise is Redding or Chico"What about the Ventura area? A good drive for those living there to...

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See, there's the problem! Los Angeles County abuts Ventura County. So the Dodgers control the area.Chico/Redding hot? No hotter than Bakersfield, Visalia or Fresno. Chico's biggest problem is the...

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