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history, featuring the Washington Senators defeating the New York Giants in a seventh game that went 12 innings. It was the only World Series championship for Washington pitcher Walter Johnson, the “Big Train” who many still consider the greatest pitcher in baseball history.I consider the ’24 Series the greatest of all time. The games were exceptional. Gramps hit .385, and baseball was then played during the day in the summer, as God intended.
My stories are more personal. My grandfather was drafted to play for Washington in 1915 and did so until 1932. He grew up in New York and lived in the Petworth neighborhood of the district. In the early 1950s, my grandfather’s daughter, my aunt Dorothy, dated the writer Douglass Wallop. He would stop by the house in Washington and see my grandfather watching the Senators playing on TV. My grandfather would talk back to the TV, giving players pointers and arguing with the umpires. Wallop went on to write the bookabout an aging Washington jock named Joe who makes a deal with the devil to come back and play baseball.
I got my grandfather’s genes and have always been good at sports, which come easily to me — even if not on the pro level. I won the “Most Versatile Player” award in Little League, which basically meant I played every position, including pitcher and catcher. I’ll never forget the day I arrived at the Chevy Chase house with my varsity letter jacket for baseball in high school. My grandmother, who, after all, had married a professional baseball player, became overjoyed.
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