MLB to start months-long approval process for Oakland Athletics' move to Las Vegas

Las Vegas would become the fourth home for a franchise that started in Philadelphia, then moved to Kansas City for 13 seasons before arriving in Oakland.

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball will start a months-long approval process for the Oakland Athletics’ proposed move to Las Vegas, which appears set to become the second shift of a franchise in the last half-century.

On the day Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation granting $380 million in public financing for a ballpark on the Las Vegas Strip, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred bemoaned the team’s inability to obtain a new stadium in Oakland and defended A’s owner John Fisher,

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