The Great Pacific Northwest
For many Californians, the San Francisco Giants for example (Like the LA Dodgers) moved north from San Francisco, California for many years and have reside in an American League city of the Seattle Mariners (Washington State).
It was indeed very sad for the Giants and Dodger fans, who could never follow the teams when the people who started their lives in the San Francisco Bay area......
In the summer of 2012, the San Fransisco Giants will travel like the LA Dodgers in June to play the Seattle Mariners for 3 games.
Like for so many Pacific Northwest people we have all met in our lives, living under the magestic tall fir trees..............we all understand the importance of a 3-game series live from Seattle, Washington without the expense of flying or driving all the way from British Columbia north to Washington State on the 5 freeway to Oregon to Northern California............
The Bud Selig invention of the MLB Interleague play that began in the late 1990's provided much relief and neccessity of baseball fans a chance to redeem old ties of old ballclubs.............