PRESS RELEASE
GBL Signs Agreement with Tijuana Group For Expansion Team
Potros Leaving the Mexican League Opens Up Market
(Dublin, CA. December 15, 2008) The Golden Baseball League (GBL) announced today
that they have entered into a Letter of Intent with a group to bring
professional baseball back to Tijuana for the upcoming 2009 season. The 2008
Tijuana Potros team was disbanded by the Mexican League and their franchise
relocated to Reynosa, opening up the market for the GBL to place an expansion
team.
"We anticipate completing this agreement and adding Tijuana as a GBL city for
this coming season," said Kevin Outcalt, Commissioner of the Golden Baseball
League. "We have always believed that Tijuana would be a very good market for
the league. It has a tremendous base of fans that regularly fill the ballpark, a
fine baseball history, and excellent support from the business community and
government."
This agreement allows the new ownership group to finalize their business and
operations requirements. Pending no other problems, a formal announcement of the
ownership group, and team name should occur in the very near future. Tijuana has
had a long baseball history playing in the Mexican Winter and Summer leagues and
consistently enjoyed some of the best attendance in all of minor league
baseball. The Mexican League voted last week at the Baseball Winter Meetings in
Las Vegas to re-locate the Tijuana franchise to the city of Reynosa which is
over 1000 miles closer to the rest of the Mexican League teams.
"A Tijuana team brings the GBL many benefits," said GBL CEO and President David
Kaval. "Not only will it be exciting for the Latin American fans in many of our
markets to see the Tijuana team play, but there are also many opportunities with
Mexican businesses that will be interested in league-wide sponsorship and
advertising to reach potential customers throughout the southwestern U.S. cities
where the GBL has teams. Becoming the first professional baseball league to have
operations in three countries should also provide a number of other business
opportunities."