BOISE IS WORTHY OF PRO BASEBALL INVESTMENT

What comes to mind when people hear “Boise” or “Idaho”? Potatoes? A middle of nowhere, sleepy city that no one visits? Boise is a phenomenal city and deserves to be known to the rest of the country for something great. It’s time to give everyone a new reason to notice us — professional baseball.

Boise is one of the biggest cities in the U.S. without a professionally affiliated sports team. College football is great, but 20 weeks of good local sports isn’t enough. We were stripped of our minor league affiliation five years ago, and with it, we lost a huge piece of our community’s identity and entertainment.

Why did we lose the Boise Hawks’ affiliation? The MLB issued a nationwide restructuring which cut 42 teams, targeting those with “subpar sta

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