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Feb 06
A game, a trial, a chase, a fight and racism
This is the account of the off field actions of the second Sunday baseball game played in the Washington Metro area. While most of the racist content has been edited out some may find this offensive. Luther E Burket, the secretary of the Washington Ball Club, had been arrested, charged with violating the law in …
Jan 30
Ted’s Tale
Ted Sullivan was a true renaissance man and a friend of the District. In 1890 he was the manager of the minor league Washington franchise that had no talent and no cash to acquire it. In desperation Walter Hewitt, the youthful and beleaguered proprietor of the franchise announced he would play baseball on Sunday. Oddly …
Jan 20
Charles Comiskey almost signs with Washington
Charles Comiskey almost signs with Washington The story about Comiskey possible signing with Washington is a great way to ponder the achievements of that baseball icon Ted Sullivan. Sullivan first notice to baseball cranks in the District would have been as a player. At the age of 33, Ted Sullivan played three games for the …
Dec 10
The Last Baseball Game
No More Baseball Baseball fans in the fall of 1918 would have been familiar with that remark. As the Griffmen prepare to play the Mackmen in a season ending doubleheader the subject was not “wait till next year,” but would the game itself survive. Unlike World War 2, after the 1918 season there would be …
Nov 18
Zimmerman at Aberdeen
It is the summer of 2004 and Ryan Zimmerman is playing for Team USA. While we make the drive up to Aberdeen, Maryland, Team USA like Team Canada had driven up from Durham, North Carolina. On the bus was nineteen year old Ryan Zimmerman. Zimmerman had just completed his second year at the University of …
Nov 17
Base Ball with Cards
The popularity of the game of baseball quickly led to variations on the game. The popularity of the game quickly went beyond the playing field. Baseball games for the home were invented in the late 1860s, and came in various types with the “New Parlor Game of Base Ball” by Metcalf Sumner perhaps the most …
