New York Mets 5, Washington Nationals 2 Day Game Played on Monday, July 4, 2005 (D) at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium NY N 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 – 5 10 2 WAS N 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 – 2 5 0 BATTING New York Mets …
Jun 17
Bob Wolff’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Speech.
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame. For 1995 the Veterans Committee. selected four people: Richie Ashburn, Leon Day, William Hulbert, and Vic Willis. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America selected Mike Schmidt. Bob Wolff received the Ford C. Frick Award honoring a baseball broadcaster. Ralph Kiner: Thank you. As you probably know the winner …
Jun 09
The Rain, The Park, and The 1969 All-Star Game
By Jeff Stuart With a torrential rain storm raging outside on Tuesday evening, July 22 the All-Stars remained dry and shot the breeze in the clubhouses. A photographer took the opportunity to snap a picture of Reggie Jackson of Oakland and Frank Howard of the Senators. Jackson had 37 home runs at mid season. Hoeard …
Jun 05
1960 Senators
1960 WASHINGTON SENATORS Front Row: Throneberry Consolo, Clary, Coach Mele, Coach McCullough, Manager Lavagetti, Coach Swift, Allison, Kralick, Hernandez, Lee.Middle Row: Trainer Lentz, Killebrew, Dobbeck, Fischer, Gardnr, Whisenant, Battey, Green, Valo, Stobbs, LemonBack Row: Ramos, Pascual, Becquer, Moore, Bertoia, Naragon, Clevenger, Valdivielso, Woodeshick.Seated in front, Batboy Baxter, and Ballboys Frazier, McWhorter, and Hubscher.
Jun 03
EDDIE YOST, NUMBER ONE
By Jeff Stuart June 2006 “Walking man, walking man walks Well, any other man stops and talks But the walking man walks” On my 10th birthday in the summer of 1955 my Dad took me to Griffith Stadium in Washington to watch the Senators play a Sunday doubleheader against the Baltimore Orioles. It was …
May 26
Pitching Partners – Ramos and Pascual
RAMOS AND PASCUAL -PITCHING PARTNERS By Jeff Stuart I once owned a 1959 Topps Baseball Card #291 labeled, “Pitching Partners-Pedro Ramos-Camilo Pascual.” Somewhere along the way, I lost it. Even though it is only worth about $3.50 today, I would readily pay that for it. Certainly, it is worth more than that to an old …
Feb 01
8th Annual D.C. Baseball History Meeting
8th Annual D.C. Baseball History Meeting Remembering the 15th Anniversary of the 2005 Washington Nationals Celebrating The 2019 MLB World Series Champions Local Player makes debut in 2006 Hosted by Mark Hornbaker Our emcees are Ed “Scoreboard Boy” Baruch & Bill “Batboy” Turner Save the Date – Saturday, February 8, 2020 *Time of Meeting – …
Oct 15
After 86 years… how sweet it is!
The wait is over. The drought is done. The ghosts are vanquished. After 86 Octobers watching other teams play for titles… After dozens of last-place finishes and an expansion team that had only one winning mark… After watching greedy owners move away two franchises… After 33 seasons in baseball wasteland without a team… After seven …
Sep 30
Davey Martinez believes in his Nats, and so do I
I have come around on Davey Martinez as manager of the Nationals. I’ll be the first to admit I was not a fan of Dusty Baker’s dismissal after back-to-back division titles with 95- and 97-win seasons, let alone Martinez’ hiring to replace Baker. Yet Martinez won me over this season, somewhere between the questions of …
May 28
The Joe Black Story
By Pam J Henderson Joe Black was a right handed pitcher who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Red legs and The Washington Senators. Joe also played on the Baltimore Elite Giants when the team won two Negro League championships. Joe was the first African American Pitcher to win a World Series game in 1952 …
