from the article:\n\n"Arturo Moreno bought the Angels from the Walt Disney Co. last year for $180 million to become the first minority owner in baseball. He's sought to expand the team's fan base beyond Anaheim, with about 330,000 residents, to include Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has 16.2 million residents, second to New York's 20.2 million, according to the 2000 U.S. Census."