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April 20 (Bloomberg) -- Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman showed
up uninvited at Major League Baseball's winter meeting last
December with a sales pitch to remember -- and an entourage
baseball officials won't soon forget. Accompanying Goodman, 65,
to the gathering in Anaheim, California, were an Elvis
impersonator and a pair of showgirls in full regalia, including
feathered headdresses and, as the mayor put it, ``tattoos in all
the right spots.''
A trial lawyer whose clients included the late Mafia
chieftain Meyer Lansky, Goodman crashed the gathering so he could
promise anyone who'd listen -- most notably baseball Commissioner
Bud Selig -- that Las Vegas is ready for big-time sports and
committed to doing whatever is necessary to land a team.

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