March 31 Senators Birthdays We end the month of March with 2 birthdays to report-another pitcher and we slip in an outfielder, both Senators Short Timers. William Frnacis Denehy B Mar. 31, 1946 Still Living Pitcher Bill Denehy first signed with the New York Mets before the start of the 1965 season. He’d make his …
Tag: Ed Johnson
Mar 09
The Our Babe Marker Mystery is Solved
First posted December of 2012. Last fall I went to the Rockville Union Cemetery to take some pictures of Walter Johnson’s grave site for a future story. This was the first time in forty years I visited the site where Walter Perry Johnson and his wife Hazel Lee Johnson are buried. During my visit at …
Mar 25
Proud to add Ed Johnson to our list of contributors
Those of you who attended the 6th Annual DC Baseball History Meeting this past February had the pleasure of hearing Ed Johnson present on Washington baseball great Cecil Travis. During the course of his presentation, Ed mentioned that much of the research he’d done for his presentation was done during the 1990s, in anticipation of …