VIENNA, Virginia — Vienna is a town of about 17,000 people in high-density Fairfax County, which has a population of just more than 1 million and is just west of the nation’s capital. It is about 10 miles from the baseball field at James Madison High in Vienna to the White House in Washington, a city that was without a Major League Baseball team from 1972 until the Nationals came to town in 2005.

In the D.C. suburbs, despite the trappings of million-dollar homes and high-powered, highly paid lawyers and lobbyists, a baseball culture exists in Vienna that is equal to or better than some small towns in middle America. “We call it the town of champions,” said Mark Gjormand, who grew up playing Vienna Little League and has been the head varsity baseball coach there at James Madison High for 3

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