Category Archive: Articles.2009-TNP

Sid Hudson

Former Washington Senators pitcher and pitching coach Sidney…

Plenty of Stars, But Few Cigars

As the American League’s pecking order of the 1950s was established,…

War at Griffith Stadium

On April 25, 1933, the Senators and the Yankees engaged in one…

Buzz Arlett’s Remarkable 1932 Season

During a five-week span in 1932, minor-league legend Buzz Arlett…

Maryland: Home of Homer Hitters

Maryland has produced five of the top 53 major league–leading…

Stories in Washington Baseball History

MOE BERG One day when the senators were on the road, Al Schacht…

Walter ‘Peck’ Lerian, 1928-29 Philadelphia Phillies

Curt Flood, Gene Conley, and Danny Ainge had nothing on Baltimore…

Mickey Grasso: The Catcher Was a POW

He loved kids and despised umpires. Since he was a genuinely…

A Ground-Zero Start to Building a Baseball Team and Ballpark

Many SABR members have dreamed of starting up and running a baseball…

Clark Griffith

As the owner of the Washington Senators, Clark C. Griffith occasionally…

Ted Williams

In 1969, his first season as manager of the Washington Senators,…

Washington Homers

These lists were compiled by David Vincent from the SABR Home…

A Brief History of the Washington Stars

Have you ever wondered why Willie McCovey and ten other Padres…

Up to Washington: Bob Groom’s Early Life in Baseball

Knowing and living in the same household with my grandfather…

Country Ball: Big Teams in Small Towns

It was a hot summer day in 1897 when hundreds of fans of the…

Cupid Childs

Cupid Childs was one of the best-hitting major-league second…

Rookie Connie Mack: Washington in 1887

When Connie Mack began his rookie major league season with the…

Abraham Lincoln, Ballplayer?

Baseball is among the most heavily mythologized elements of American…

Leon Allen Goslin: The Wild Goose of the Potomac

The only player to appear in every inning of all nineteen World…

Baseball Braggin’ Rights: The Five-State Series, 1922–1927

Fans come from miles around—families in wheezing Model Ts,…

James Vincent Jamison Jr.: Blue Ridge League President, 1916–18, 1920–30

Much more than a booster of baseball locally, V. Jamison Jr.,…

The All-Time Team of Bob Davids Chapter Natives

The geography that includes the District of Columbia, Virginia,…

The Class D Blue Ridge League: 1918, the Lost Season

The Great War in Europe had finally reached the shores of the…

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