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 ...

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The Washingtonians who grew up when Griffith Stadium was the town's sports mecca had so many memories to share that we planned to break the recollections into two parts, with this one as the second.

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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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 ...