Nationals manager Davey Johnson announced last week, to the surprise of few, that Stephen Strasburg will take the mound when the team opens the 2013 season on April 1 against the Miami Marlins. While Strasburg’s status for the 2012 postseason was the topic of much conversation and even criticism after the team shut him down …
Mar 16
The Game Comes Home Web Series – Part Four
During the next 12 weekends we are going to share with you The Game Comes Home Web Series about D.C. Baseball History. The Game Comes Home is a new weekly documentary web series chronicling the History of Baseball in Washington, D.C. Interviews with Dick Heller, Phil Wood, Hank Thomas, Charlie Brotman, Mark Gauvreau Judge, Timothy …
Mar 11
The New Washington Senators
While (now) ”classic” songs such as “Blue Moon” by the Marcels, “Runaway” by Del Shannon and “Mother-In-Law” by Ernie K. Doe were playing over local transistor radios throughout the D.C area, the new Washington Senators were playing their first ever spring training game in Florida. The date was Saturday, March 11, 1961, and the expansion version of the Washington Senators — …
Mar 10
Playing Pepper with the Nationals
I recently answered a few questions for Daniel Shoptaw’s “C70 At the Bat” St Louis Cardinals blog about the Nationals prospects for the 2013 season. My answers are below: 1) How would you grade the offseason?I’d give it an A. The Nationals acquired players to shore up their two most glaring weaknesses: Speed in the …
Mar 09
The Game Comes Home Web Series – Part Three
During the next 13 weekends we are going to share with you The Game Comes Home Web Series about D.C. Baseball History. The Game Comes Home is a new weekly documentary web series chronicling the History of Baseball in Washington, D.C. Interviews with Dick Heller, Phil Wood, Hank Thomas, Charlie Brotman, Mark Gauvreau Judge, Timothy …
Mar 05
McGuire vs. the Kid
One of the oddities of the 1891 season was the conflict that played out during the season between James “Deacon” McGuire and Wilfred “Kid” Carsey. In August Kid Carsey’s father sends a letter to a local paper documenting what many people have long suspected. Mr. WA Carsey of this city, and father of the young …
Mar 04
Alexander Donoghue Jumps Ship
This story exhibits the fine madness that played out during the summer of 1890. Washington rejected by the majors found itself in the minors, the Atlantic Association, to be exact. It is a period of turmoil. There are three major leagues and the local rooters complain that they are tired of the legal fighting that …
Mar 01
The Game Comes Home Web Series – Part Two
During the next 14 weekends we are going to share with you The Game Comes Home Web Series about D.C. Baseball History. The Game Comes Home is a new weekly documentary web series chronicling the History of Baseball in Washington, D.C. Interviews with Dick Heller, Phil Wood, Hank Thomas, Charlie Brotman, Mark Gauvreau Judge, Timothy …
Feb 25
The Bizarre Debut of Jouett Meekin or is it Mr. Stewart
The year is 1891, Benjamin Harrison is in the White House. It is a hot July day in Washington, the 5th of July to be exact. Washington has just swept an Independence Day doubleheader and the Colonels and the spectators hope the team can somehow turn around the train wreck of a season they have …
Feb 24
The Game Comes Home Web Series – Part One
During the next 15 weekends we are going to share with you The Game Comes Home Web Series about D.C. Baseball History. The Game Comes Home is a new weekly documentary web series chronicling the History of Baseball in Washington, D.C. Interviews with Dick Heller, Phil Wood, Hank Thomas, Charlie Brotman, Mark Gauvreau Judge, Timothy …
