Even the Washington Post has reported on the dismissal of Baseball at the FC Barcelona, publishing a long article by the Associated Press. An excerpt:
BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona fans and athletes gathered in front of Camp Nou stadium on Thursday to protest the elimination of the club’s 80-year-old baseball team and the decision to slash funding for 12 minority sports teams.
About a hundred adult and children players from a variety of Barcelona’s amateur sports teams held a long banner in support of the endangered baseball team that read: “Don’t think about the season, think about the history: 80 years.”
“The feeling is one of shock,” FC Barcelona pitcher and first baseman Jason Friedman, a Chicago native, told The Associated Press. “Until this point it felt very secure, we felt that baseball was important to the club. … It has been a real blow to us.”