Nats end five game losing streak. Don Black carried a 2-1 record into the game while Ray Scarborough was seeking his seventh decision. He’s been licked five times. At the end of five innings, the Nats led, 2-1, and every run in the game was set up by a stolen base. The Indians weren’t able …
Dec 22
The 1948 Project – 18 July Game 1 Whisper’s from Washington
28,631 Boo Feller Who Lasts Only 5 Innings. To Bob Feller went the boos of 28,631 Griffith Stadium customers. Feller who has encountered the displeasure of the baseball world by his walkout on the All Star game, made his second start in the nightcap. The third largest crowd of the season gave him the works …
Dec 21
Remembering Josh Gibson on his Birthday
On this day in the year 1911, Mark and Nancy Gibson became the proud parents of a baby boy named Joshua Gibson. Joshua spent the first ten years of his life in Buena Vista, Georgia where life wasn’t easy. At time his parents worked as sharecroppers in the fields throughout Georgia. In 1921, Joshua’s father …
Dec 18
25 January 1947 Ethel Posey reflects on her husband
Mrs. Ethel Posey, I have come to learn, was the steadying influence behind the shrewd but erratic Cum Posey, before the Homestead Grays co-owner died last summer. Posey was one of those cussing, fighting, rootin tootin’ hombres who cared little about what he did to you and less about whether you liked it. “Cum was …
Dec 15
22 July 1939 Nats take the Upper Bunks
The Washington Nationals managed by Clark Griffith, were making ready to leave Chicago en route to St. Louis for a series with the Browns. By one of this conincidents we are wont to call rare, Grif and Rube chose the same train. Therein might have been the rub if it had not been for the …
Dec 14
8 August 1942 Gibson Clouts 2 Homers
Paced by Josh Gibson who banged out two home runs to drive across four tallies, the Washington Homestead Grays, Friday night, knocked the Baltimore Elite Giants out of the Negro National League lead, by taking a 7 to 3 victory under the arc lights at Bugle Field. Rain halted Sunday’s scheduled twin bill, but Friday’s …
Dec 10
14 May 1932 Pilots Annex two from Baltimore
Cheered on by a band of lusty rooters, many of them of feminine gender, who journeyed over from the nation’s capital to see them in action, the Washington Pilots helped the Baltimore Black Sox pry off the lid of the East West League by taking two of the three games played on Saturday and Sunday. …
Dec 08
4 July 1942 Eagles Nip Grays 6 to 5
A crowd of 9,000 fans saw the Newark Eagles defeat the Washington Homestead grays, 6 to 5, in 14 innings, at Griffith Stadium, Sunday, and then deadlock them, 1 to 1, in the second game of a twin bill; the latter game was scheduled to travel seven innings but went the regulation nine without a …
