Currently the City of Richmond Virginia is entering into a process to decide the highest and best use of City owned property on North Boulevard.  All indications point to a desire by the City Administration, led by Mayor Dwight C. Jones, to eliminate The Diamond and any other baseball stadium from the proposed redevelopment of this land; effectively ending Richmond's 100+ year relationship with organized baseball.  This petition is designed to show in no uncertain terms that the citizens of the City of Richmond and the Richmond regional community believe that baseball is important to our overall quality of life and that a baseball stadium is a critical component of the highest and best use of this City owned property.