MLB Likely To Award Ownership Of Nationals To Lerner

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Major League Baseball is likely to award ownership of the Washington Nationals to a group led by Bethesda developer Theodore N. Lerner, after efforts by District politicians and others to steer the selection to competing bidders apparently backfired, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

MLB Commisioner Bud Selig will ultimatley decide who gets the franchise and was angry with accusations that the minorities in Lerner's ownership party were only "token" owners.

D.C. Council members Marion Barry and Vincent B. Orange Sr. held a news conference yesterday to accuse Lerner's family of "renting blacks" in its effort to win the right to buy the team from Major League Baseball.

Via The Washington Post

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