Obituary for “Baseball Bill” Holdforth, D.C. sports folk hero and Capitol Hill bartender. He antagonized Bob Short over several years for moving the Washington Senators to Texas.
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Obituary for Roy Sievers, former Washington Senators slugger, 1957 Home Run King and friend of Richard Nixon. Sievers was 1949 Rookie of the Year for his hometown St. Louis Browns.
Bye now!
Earl Lloyd, an Alexandria native, integrated the NBA in 1950 with the Washington Capitols. I blogged about this on 60th anniversary. He didn’t last long […] Read More