From the summer 1962 copy of the International Bank Notes (via World Bank Archives pages, PDF), we hear the story of World Bank President Eugene Black (from 1949-1963) arranging World Bank staff to take in Washington Senators baseball. According to the article, this annual event began in 1950 and continued through at least 1962. Early “baseball diplomacy”?
Presuming the dates are correct, this would have been RFK stadium. Looks right to me.
This is the second game of a doubleheader between the Senators & Cleveland Indians on June 13, 1962. The Indians' lineup on the scoreboard is Don Dillard, Al Luplow, Tito Francona, Willie Kirkland, John Romano, Bubba Phillips, Jerry Kindall, Jim Mahoney and pitcher Dick Donovan. Washington's lineup is Danny O'Connell, Chuck Cottier, Chuck Hinton, Dale Long, Joe Hicks, Jimmy Piersall, Bob Schmidt, Ken Hamlin and pitcher Dave Stenhouse. Cleveland won 4-1 in front of a crowd of 12,968.
Good detective work filwud.
1962 saw the Senators move from Griffith Stadium to D.C. Stadium – renamed RFK in 1968.
I'm sure the newness of the stadium was appreciated, although from this photo, seems nothing but bleak.
The outside photo is Obviously RFK; if the inside photo is from the same year–it says that is is an annual event, it would be too. I don’t know when Griffith came down and RFK went up.
It was June 13, 1962, against the Cleveland Indians.
The photo is from the second game of a doubleheader, which the Nats lost, 4-1. They won the first game 4-2 behind pitchers Claude Osteen and Steve Hamilton. The second game lineups (see scoreboard):
Cleveland, Dillard, CF, Luplow, LF, Francona, 1B, Kirkland (later a Senator), RF, Romano, C, Phillips, 3B, Kindall, 2B, Mahoney (former Senator), SS, Donovan (former Senator), P.
Washington, O’Connell, 3B, Cottier, 2B, Hinton, LF, Long, 1B, Hicks, RF, Piersall, CF, Schmidt, C, Hamlin, SS, Stenhouse, P.