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July 26, 2003TC BASEBALL TIMELINEApril 1994: The Traverse Baseball Committee - made up of Philadelphia attorney Dennis Arouca, former Cincinnati Reds executive vice president Steve Schott and Traverse City's Jeff Corbin and Deborah Knudsen - announces plans to bring a minor league baseball team to Traverse City. The group hopes to join the Class A Midwest League and begin play in April, 1996. Lack of support to publicly finance a stadium eventually stalls the project.July 1999: Lansing political consultant Mark Pischea announces plans to bring minor league baseball to Traverse City. Pischea hopes to begin play in the Class A Midwest League in April, 2001. But again, the project dies dues to a lack of support to help publicly finance a stadium, as well as warnings from Midwest League officials that a team likely would not be awarded to Traverse City. February 2000: Lansing Lugnuts owner Tom Dickson pitches a plan to start the Great Lakes League of independent minor league baseball, and he mentions Traverse City as a possible member. But Dickson's proposal for a 6,500-seat stadium that would cost between $15-20 million does not get off the ground. July 2003: John and Leslye Wuerfel announce plans to purchase land on the corner of M-72 and Bugai Road, build a 4,500-seat stadium and bring a minor league baseball team to Traverse City at their own expense, estimated at $6 million. The Wuerfels hope to begin play in the independent Frontier League in May, 2005.
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