So Granville, Morgantown, North Central West Virginia and/or West Virginia will indeed have a Class A – short season baseball team in June and 38 home games through September. The team will call the new ballpark at University Town Center its home and that ballpark — described in a press release as “yet-to-be-built” — will be completed in time for WVU’s season and all it’s non-conference and Big 12 games.

What’s truly neat and important to the people who get involved and invested in these things is the team will be in the Pittsburgh Pirates family, which a low has Class A team in Charleston and a Class AA team in Altoona. Pirates fans can track future stars from their beginnings and catch most of it within their region.

But here’s the biggest unresolved issue and the best part yet: The team doesn’t have a name, and that duty will belong to the public sooner rather than later.

“That’s going to be job one,” said Bob Rich, the chairman of Rich Products Corporation and the new team’s owner.

That top priority, though, will be belong to the people and not the brass. Rich said the team will have a naming contest and accept suggestions on Facebook (Facebook.com/MorgantownBaseball) and Twitter (@MorgantownBall) and by email (MorgantownBaseball@gmail.com.)

“It gives us a good way to start our outreach efforts and to hear from the community about what kind of names they like,” Rich said. “As the owner of a club, you don’t want to just pick a name out of a hat. We want this team to hit the field running with a name people can feel proud of.”

Rich owns three teams and is in the habit of letting fans name their teams after one forgettable-if-not-so-memorable story from 1987.

“That,” Rich said, “was the last time I was ever going to try to name a baseball team.”