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GaryMrMets
10-31-2004, 01:09 AM
Baseball in Washington D.C. Washington Senators

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Washington Senators ace Walter Johnson. (AP)

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Washington Senators player/manager Bucky Harris, who led his team to its only World Series victory. (AP)

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Washington Senators left fielder Heinie Manush, who batted .336 and led the American League in hits with 221 in 1933. (AP)

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Washington Senators outfielder Sam Rice. (AP)

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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt throws out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the 1933 World Series between the Giants and the Senators. The Senators won the game, 4-0. (AP)

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Washington Senators shortstop Joe Cronin at Spring Training in Sarasota, Fla., on March 20, 1937. (AP)

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Washington Senators president Clark Griffith poses with lightbulbs after learning his request for night baseball in Washington had been granted on Dec. 1, 1943. (Kradin/AP)

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Washington Senators infielder Harmon Killebrew poses at his team's Spring Training camp in Orlando, Fla. (AP)

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President Kennedy winds up to throw out the first ball at the 32nd All-Star Game in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 1962. (AP)

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Washington Senators slugger Frank Howard. (AP)

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Washington Senators manager Ted Williams. (AP)

GaryMrMets
10-31-2004, 06:01 PM
Notice that the only left handed thrower is President Harry S Truman.

Presidential first pitches in Washington D.C.

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President William Howard Taft throws out the first ball to start the season for the Washington Senators in 1912. (AP)

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President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first pitch at a season-opening baseball game in 1916. (Herbert French/Corbis)

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President Warren G. Harding throws out the first ball to open the Washington Senators' 1921 baseball season. (AP)

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President Calvin Coolidge throws out the ball for the opening game of the World Series between the Washington Senators and the New York Giants in Washington D.C. on Oct. 4, 1924. (AP)

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President Herbert Hoover stands poised to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game at Griffith Stadium on April 17, 1929. (AP)

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tosses the first ball to open the baseball season in Washington on April 14, 1936. (AP)

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President Harry S Truman makes a left-handed toss on April 18, 1950, to start the American League baseball season at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. (AP)

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President Eisenhower makes an Opening Day pitch on April 13, 1954, at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. (AP)

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President John F. Kennedy throws out the ceremonial first pitch to open the Washington Senators' season on April 8, 1963. (Bettmann/Corbis)

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President Lyndon Johnson throws out the first ball to open the American League baseball season on April 13, 1964. (AP)

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President Richard Nixon throws out the ceremonial first pitch on April 7, 1969, at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. (AP)

oriolesfan23
11-01-2004, 05:50 PM
Those are cool pictures! Thanks.