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Sports · Baseball · published 2026-09-02 · via The Athletic

Anaheim mayor hopeful for new stadium deal after Angels sale

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Mayor Ashleigh Aitken expressed optimism after the Angels' sale to Stan Kroenke. She hopes for a land deal and a return to the Anaheim name. The city's relationship with the team had been strained.

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The city of Anaheim owns Angel Stadium and has leased it to the team through 2032, but negotiations over a land sale collapsed in 2022 after former mayor Harry Sidhu was imprisoned on corruption charges. Mayor Aitken’s previous open letter to the team, requesting stadium inspections and a name change, went unanswered under outgoing owner Arte Moreno.

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