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50 years ago today, Griffith Stadium hosted its last game

DICK HELLER: The spirit of Griffith lingers 50 years later – The Wash. Times On this day in 1961, the Washington Senators era at Griffith Stadium came to a close. Contrary to the madness of the 1971...

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60 years ago today Mickey Mantle hit first “tape measure home run” at...

Yesterday, Thom Loverro of The Wash. Examiner reminded us that today is the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mantle’s famed 565-feet home run – Thom Loverro: Sixty years later, still feeling Mickey Mantle’s...

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Nats: D.C. Opening Day newsreels and video from the Hoover administration to...

Highlights from baseball Opening Day in Washington D.C. from the 1920s to 2016. From Griffith Stadium to RFK to Nationals Park, the Senators and Nationals have featured presidents Hoover, Roosevelt,...

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Nats Opening Day highlights: presidents, pageantry from newsreels to now

To celebrate the home opener, I’ve put together a youtube playlist of Washington, D.C. baseball Opening Days over the years, starting with Herbert Hoover and continuing through Lyndon Johnson and...

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The Last Out – a 1965 program about Griffith Stadium now on youtube

A piece of D.C. sports history was recently uploaded to YouTube – The LAST OUT. This 1965 film recalls the history of the longtime home of […] Read More The post The Last Out – a 1965 program about...

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