Tuesday, May 27, 2003 | 9:43 a.m.
CARSON CITY -- A plan to lure minor league baseball to Washoe County took one more step Monday with committee approval in the Legistlature.
Senate Bill 497 would allow 2 percent to be added to the rental car tax paid in Washoe County to fund construction of a baseball stadium with hopes of luring a PCL team.
"We believe Triple-A baseball can be successful in Reno," Pacific Coast League president Branch Rickey told the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
Rickey declined to comment on which franchise might be relocate to Sparks, which has acquired land at the marina there for the project.
The 6,000-seat stadium would cost an estimated $40 million.
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