Table of Content

  • The ups and downs of a championship season

    November 20, 2019: The 2019 season that ended with a world championship for Washington began slowly, even before a month-long slump dropped the Nationals – famously in retrospect – to 19-31, the farthest any team had fallen in the wild-card era (since 1995) before eventually winning the World Series. Surprisingly, given the team’s hot finish,… Read more

  • World Series winners at last!

    November 1, 2019: The Nationals’ five-month sprint to victory in the World Series elicited feelings of disbelief, joy and relief at the same time after so many years of frustration for fans of Washington baseball. As bad as the Nats played the first two months, they never fell behind the Braves by more than 10… Read more

  • Sept. 20, 1942: War shadows Nats’ comeback vs. A’s

    September 28, 2019: When the two worst teams in the American League met at Shibe Park for a September 20, 1942, doubleheader, Philadelphia’s legendary owner-manager Connie Mack readily admitted that the results were not foremost on his mind. His A’s had clinched the basement for a third season in a row, but the team avoided… Read more

  • Jackie Price at Griffith Stadium in 1950

    August 21, 2019: Jackie who? If that was your reaction, you obviously never heard of the man described in 1950 in the Sporting News as “America’s Greatest Entertainer.” Price, an amazingly acrobatic baseball player, performed his tricks with bat, ball and glove for a capacity crowd before the Senators’ game on July 22, 1950. He… Read more

  • Aug. 18, 1953: Nats top Yanks, 10-8, with 7 in 9th

    July 31, 2019: The Yankees were cruising to their fifth straight A.L. pennant in 1953 when they took on the Senators in New York for a three-game series on Aug. 18. The Nats[1] had just split a doubleheader in Boston with the Red Sox, while the Yanks had won four straight after pummeling the then-sixth… Read more

  • Gehrig’s farewell speech and the Senators

    As of July 4, 2019, 80 years had passed since Lou Gehrig gave his heartfelt and heartbreaking speech at Yankee Stadium. He bid farewell to baseball, famously calling himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth” despite being stricken with an incurable illness that would claim his life and come to bear his… Read more