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Article: Major league baseball's Angels take Los Angeles name.
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2005
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Byline: Brent Hopkins
Jan. 4--Los Angeles "officially" got a new baseball team Monday -- the only catch is that it's not in Los Angeles.
Response to the newly renamed Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim was far from glowing.
That other Los Angeles baseball team, the Dodgers, insisted it was still the only game actually in town. The city of Anaheim threatened a lawsuit by week's end. Los Angeles rebuffed the interlopers' entreaties. Marketing experts called the move a major gaffe. And loyal fans scratched their heads in confusion and disgust.
"It's in the same class as New Coke, the same kind of stupidity," scoffed Hal Kassarjian, an adjunct ...