8 (group).

Steve Kanter, Wally Van Valkenburg, and David Kahn, who, as unpaid volunteers, managed to talk the

Oregon Legislature into financing part of the cost of a proposed major league baseball stadium in Portland,

to be paid for out of the state income taxes that would be collected on the players' salaries.

Next up: convincing the Portland City Council, for whom the idea may make too much sense.

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