Remember the 1908 Washington Nationals v. Cleveland Indians baseball game? We won 8-2, taking a three-game sweep! Read this blog to relive the historic game and #NATITUDE!
Discover the story of World Bank President Eugene Black’s annual baseball outings with World Bank staff, which began in 1950 and continued through at least 1962. Learn more about this early example of “baseball diplomacy” and see photos of the Washington Senators greeting the World Bank staff.
On August 8th, 1974, the day Nixon resigned, an article in the Washington Post detailed how D.C. was, yet again, screwed out of baseball by greedy owners. We also narrowly missed landing the Padres for the 1974 season.
Take a look back in time to a baseball game being played on the Georgetown University grounds in 1900. See a photo of the game from the Georgetown University Library.
Relive a candid moment from 1994 with Bill & Hillary Clinton, as they practice for an Opening Day ceremony in the Rose Garden. See the original photo!
Take a look back at the Republican Congressional baseball team parading around the field at American League Park in 1926. Plus, don’t forget to watch Ron Paul’s double in 1983 – and the awesome Houston Astros uniform he’s wearing!
Walter Johnson’s special gift to the National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, New York was six baseballs autographed by six presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. With the exception of those autographed by Roosevelt and Hoover, the balls were thrown out at opening games during Johnson’s tenure as star pitcher for the Washington Senators.
For over 30 years, the O’s were our default baseball team. So we thought it was fitting to share this amazing photograph of the 1921 Baltimore Orioles. At the time, they were Class AA in the International League. Plus, this is a really amazing photo.
Discover the long-standing relationship between beer and baseball, from the famous Yankee homerun calls to the unfortunate incident that caused a local brewery to cancel its sponsorship of a 1940s team. Read on to find out more!
It’s been more than a century since two Washington neighborhoods, Takoma and Petworth, went head-to-head in a hotly contested game of amateur baseball. Read on to find out who emerged victorious and for the full box score!
