Out at home: why most Nats fans can't see their team on TV : hearing before the Committee on Government...
- ISBN-10
- 0160770904
- ISBN-13
- 9780160770906
- Category
- Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- Author
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform
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