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As a kid growing up in 1950s Silver Spring, I often listened to Arch McDonald and Bob Wolf, then the radio voices of the luckless Washington Senators. There was something besides the cellar-dwelling ...

On December 7 th, 1941 the Redskins and Eagles played a football game at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC. At that same time, on the opposite side of the United States, the world was being thrown ...

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Audrey Fields is 82 years old. She says she can't remember everything. "I couldn't tell you the restaurants we went to after the games in '48," she says. ". . . So long ago." Now that the Nationals ...

Before RFK stadium was built, the Washington Senators played at Griffith Stadium, named after the club's longtime owner, Clark Griffith. Built in 1911, after a fire at what was then called National ...