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Washington's first major league baseball team, the Senators, was owned by Clark Griffith, who, in the democratic, give-the-people- what-they-want spirit of the city, said, "Fans like home runs -- and we have assembled a pitching staff to please our fans."
Today, Washington's third team, the Nationals, opens a new ballpark near the Capitol, an appropriate setting for the national pastime. Remember, Lincoln's last words, whispered to Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, were: "Don't ... let ... baseball ... die."See the full content of this document
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Play Ball!
Or so said a solemn Bill Stern to a radio audience of millions. Stern, who died in 1971, was a famous sportscaster whose commitment to fact was episodic. A wit responded that if Lincoln had said that ...
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