January 2017 archive

D.C. Baseball All-Time Hitting Records – Updated

D.C. Baseball All-Time Hitting Records Updated on 1/22/2017 by Mark Hornbaker                     Top 25           Top 25   Rank Number of years played in Washington Years Rank Number of games played for Washington Games Rank Number of At Bats AB 1 Walter …

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Batboy Missed But Not Forgotten

I received this story from Jim Ryan and I wanted to share it with you. John Kurtz was actually the regular batboy/ballboy along with Bill Turner and me. Bob Farmer took John’s place on the night that Sid Sussman, reporter for the Evening Star came to Griffith Stadium, took photos and wrote the article on …

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Newsreel of the Washington Senators winning 1924 World Series

The Library of Congress recently found nearly perfectly preserved nitrate film of a “Kinograms” newsreel showing the Washington Senators winning 1924 World Series