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HELLER: Rooting against the Rangers just feels right – The Wash. Times
While I disagree with Dick Heller forgiving Calvin Griffith moving the original Washington Senators, I continue to be on board with Heller rooting against the Texas Rangers. It is just the right thing for a Washingtonian to do. The Rangers exist not because Washington [...]

RFK Stadium at age 50: Redskins, baseball and much more – The Post
Happy 50th Birthday, RFK Stadium! – SB Nation DC
THOMAS BOSWELL: RFK Stadium: After 50 years, it’s still personal – The Post
GALLERY: A look back at RFK Stadium – The Post
UPDATED 10.03.2011: When RFK Stadium opened DC Sports Bog, The Post (yay mega nerd)
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The darkest day in D.C. baseball history was 40 years ago today. That night, the Washington Senators played their final game which they forfeit after fans overran the field at RFK Stadium. They appeared to be on their way to a 7-5 win over the New York Yankees when bedlam ensued. The Shirley Povich column [...]

DICK HELLER: The spirit of Griffith lingers 50 years later – The Wash. Times
On this day in 1961, the Washington Senators era at Griffith Stadium came to a close.
Contrary to the madness of the 1971 finale when rowdy fans caused a forfeit in advance of the Senators leaving to “some jerk town with a single [...]

Harmon Killebrew, the last great player of the original Washington Senators, died yesterday. He had announced a few days prior that he was entering hospice care. The Washington Nationals hung a “#3 KILLEBREW” jersey in the dugout on Sunday (The Early Lead, The Post). The Minnesota Twins, who Killebrew played for throughout most of his [...]

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of the announcements that the original Washington Senators were moving to Minnesota and an expansion team would be taking their place. DC Sports Bog has a look at how The Post covered the situation. The original Senators, who left because Calvin Griffith was a racist, became the Twins and won [...]

THOMAS BOSWELL – Is it time for Washington baseball fans to ‘forgive’ the Texas Rangers? – The Post
No.
I’ve been over this before, the Texas Rangers are the enemy. The former Washington Senators moved away because over-leveraged owner Bob Short was incompetent. Boswell of all people should know better than to reward that kind of bad [...]

We are 3 days removed from the final 2010 Washington Nationals game of the season. The playoffs are starting up today and two franchises that used to call D.C. home are in. Here is why you should root against the Minnesota Twins (in D.C. 1901-1960) and the Texas Rangers (in D.C. 1961-1971). I’m also rooting [...]

A big project at work and illnesses at home (we’ll be fine) have cut into time for EVERYTHING this week, so I have not been keeping up with blogging. All I have to write about is Nats Blogger Day and a week at Disney World. In the meantime, I have a few observations about the [...]

There are have been a couple of blog posts out there supporting Hall of Famer Frank Robinson’s enshrinement in the Nationals Park Ring of Honor.
Still waiting for Frank Robinson Day – Nationals Enquirer
THOM LOVERRO – Nationals “Ring of Honor” fails to connect with Washington baseball – WTEM 980
It won’t happen because there is already precedent [...]