Exclusive! Baseball Ticket Dispute Settled.

You first read about it here weeks ago; I've now confirmed that DC Mayor Fenty and Council Chairman Gray have ended their dispute over who gets the tickets to the Nationals new ballpark.

A well placed source says the District's top two elected officials met late Thursday and agreed to end their war which had been waged since opening day at the publicly financed stadium that sits along the Anacostia river in Southeast.

At issue was the Mayor's insisting that he hold onto all the free tickets to the new ballpark, including tickets to the two posh suites made available to the Mayor and Council by Nat's owners, Ted Lerner and family.

Chairman Gray had insisted that the Council should have control over one of the suites; at one point he collected tickets issued to his colleagues by the Mayor and had them all returned to the chief executive.

A well placed source tells me the chief executive had all the tickets from one of the suites delivered to the Chairman's office today(Friday).

If you think this matter wasn't deliberated at the highest levels of city hall (John Wilson Building), then consider this; the tickets were delivered to the Council Chairman, not by a staffer, but by the Attorney General.

AG Peter Nickles told me by phone late Friday , "The Mayor, Chairman and I met yesterday (Thursday) on a number of matters and the tickets came up". "The Mayor indicated there had been some misunderstanding. He told me to take care of it and I did".

The DC Council suite has 19 tickets, some parking passes and extra tickets in the general seating area of the ballpark.