Playoffs in DC for 1st time since 1933!

havefunkc · Unread post by **havefunkc** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:11 pm

The Washington Nationals are not the hapless Expos anymore... They will be playing in October! Not since the days of Goose Goslin, Mel Ott and Heinie Manush has there been a post-season of baseball in our Nation's Capital. (No political cracks please.)

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Will the Nats make some noise and bring a World Series to DC? Will Boy Wonder be unleashed for a run? Will "super" rookie Harper play like he can or just be the butt of Dish Network jokes (see

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WVAPPeer · Unread post by **WVAPPeer** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:25 pm

Wow I did not realize it had been that long since there had been post season play in DC - heck that is even before my time

I did see the Old Senators play in Griffith Park back when I was a kid and they had some good teams but there were in the AL with the Yankees and not even my Tigers could unseat the Yanks - they had some good players before they went to Minnesota - Killebrew, Bob Allison, Jim Lemon, was it Mickey Vernon (?) who won the batting title ---

havefunkc · Unread post by **havefunkc** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:00 pm

Indeed! Mickey Vernon - good ballplayer in the late 40's/early 50's. AL Batting Champ in '46 and '53...

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Decent player that moved around a bit, but 22 years as a player will do that to you guy.