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  • Clyde Kluttz, veteran catcher on the last winning Griffith team

    March 14, 2020: Clyde Kluttz was a backup catcher in the majors for nine seasons, the last two of them with the Washington Senators in 1951 and ’52, the last Griffith team to finish above .500. After seven years in the National League, Kluttz was sent to the minors by the Pirates after the 1948… Read more

  • ‘First in War…’: the myth that never died

    I remember reading Douglass Wallop’s 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant in junior high school around 1960, not knowing at the time that it had been turned into  the hit 1955 Broadway musical Damn Yankees. Wallop was born 100 years ago in Washington, attended the University of Maryland in College Park and… Read more

  • How the Nats won the NLDS, NLCS and World Series

    January 13, 2020: After the dramatic comeback win over the Brewers to keep their season alive, the Nationals opened the division series at Dodger Stadium on Oct. 3 against Los Angeles, a team that had the league’s best won-loss record: 106-56. N.L Division Series Game One: Patrick Corbin started against 14-game-winner Walker Buehler. The Nats… Read more

  • Social media groups and other Nats sites

    January 10, 2020 (updated May 2026): A number of other places on the web are devoted to Washington, D.C., baseball, past and present. Here’s are links to some of them: “The Expansion Washington Senators: https://www.facebook.com/groups/463338547208950 Because the pages is now private, you need an invitation from a current member to join. D.C. Baseball History Yesterday… Read more

  • Ernie Shore’s ‘perfect game’ against the Nats

    December 9, 2019: One of the most famous stories about Babe Ruth’s career – especially when he was a pitcher – was the day he started a game against the Senators and was ejected after walking the first batter. The runner was thrown out trying to steal on the first pitch by Ruth’s replacement, Ernie… Read more

  • D.C. and the Homestead Grays

    December 2, 2019: The Homestead Grays, a renowned team before baseball’s desegregation, traced its roots to Black workers in a steel-mill town across the river from Pittsburgh in 1912. The Grays called Washington home for at least half of their league games, beginning in 1940. The Negro National League team, lead by Buck Leonard and… Read more