I think that's true ... but wasn't it Mike Kekich who gave Hondo a
room-service fastball?? Story goes that Hondo thanked Munson, and
Munson told him, "You still had to hit it."

---- Original Message ----
From: john_w_welch@...
To: thewashingtonsenators@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [The Washington Senators] Re: Washington Senators
memories...
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:42:17 -0400

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>One of the very few times he rooted for the opponent.
>Isn't there a thought that the Yankees pitcher (Fritz Peterson?)
>grooved one for Hondo, and Hondo thanked Thurman Munson when he
>touched home plate?
>
>John
>
>
>To: thewashingtonsenators@yahoogroups.com
>From: tbpsmd@...
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:56:00 -0400
>Subject: [The Washington Senators] Re: Washington Senators
>memories...
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> I remember that Scooter was very upset that Washington
>had lost its team.
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>Tim
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>----- Original Message -----
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>Hello, Senators faithful,
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>I listened to the last game over Yankees radio -- I lived and still
>live in
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>NYC, having gone off to college in 1966.
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>Aside from Howard's home-run (of course), I remember Phil Rizzuto
>going wild
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>when Nats fans took over the field. He was, for once, almost
>speechless:
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>"Huckleberries! They're taking the field apart!!!" Or something
>close.
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>Regards,
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>John
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>To: thewashingtonsenators@yahoogroups.com
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>From: jkrpn@...
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>Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:11:29 -0400
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>Subject: Re: [The Washington Senators] Washington Senators
>memories...
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>When I think of 1971 I remember going to see Vida Blue and the
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>Oakland A's on opening day and how the NATS hammered them 8-0. Then
>going to
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>see the A's and Nats again in May and watching Denny McClain get
>absolutely
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>SHELLED by the A's....
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>From: bill gero <rebelyell1861@...>
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>To: thewashingtonsenators@yahoogroups.com
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>Sent: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 9:29 pm
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>Subject: Re: [The Washington Senators] Washington Senators
>memories...
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>Art,
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>I did not ask who was at the last game in 1971, I was asking about
>the last
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>game @ RFK on Sept. 23 of this year. I was only 10 when the Senators
>left
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>town in '71. I realy like the poem you posted. I'm going to print it,
>frame
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>it amd hang it my office along side the rest of my Senators
>memorabilia.
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>Thanks !!
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>Bill Gero
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>Art Audley <Aa3rt@...> wrote:
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>I was 15 years old when the Senators began play in the 1969 season,
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>turning 16 in July. In researching my previous post, I had to rely on
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>James R. Hartley's "Washington's Expansion Senators (1961-1971)" to
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>fill in the blanks for some long-faded memories.
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>(BTW-An excellent reference and a worthwhile addition to the baseball
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>library for any Senators fan.)
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>In response to Bill Gero's query about who was at the last game on
>Sep.
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>30, 1971-I was not among the faithful. I was away attending my first
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>semester of college. The 1971 season is pretty much a blur to me-I'd
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>graduated from high school in June and had numerous other things
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>preoccupying me during that last, inglorious season. Things like
>girls,
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>cars, preparing for college all being overshadowed by a very low
>draft
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>number. I remember watching the news broadcast (in glorious black and
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>white) of the last game and the forefeit-not believeing that there
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>would be no more baseball in DC and that forefeit to the hated
>Yankees!!
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>What a way for it to end!
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>Anyhow, while researching my previous post, I found a clipping from
>the
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>March 30, 1989 Washington Times that I'd tucked away in the Hartley
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>book. It includes a poem written by a gentleman named Thomas Ponton.
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>Mr. Ponton says that Sep. 30, 1971 was his 11th birthday and he was
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>among the crowd who witnessed that final debacle. While I'm not a
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>poetry fan by any means, I thought this item was special-hopefully
>some
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>of you will enjoy it as well.
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>"When the Senators Left Town" by Thomas Ponton
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>When the Senators played, it always seemed sunny,
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>And you could go to the park and not spend much money.
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>There was Howard, Epstein, Pasqual, McMullen,
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>Brinkman, Stroud, Unser, Tim Cullen,
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>Coleman, Casanova, Bosman, Jim French,
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>And Knowles and Grzenda would come off the bench.
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>But the memories are jaded-my spirits are down,
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>Since '71 when the Senators left town.
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>To root for the team was like going to Confession,
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>'Cause they last time they won it was before the Depression.
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>Sure there were chances but they went north with the Twins,
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>And we were stuck with a new team that recorded few wins.
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>>From the stands we'd all watch and seldom complain,
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>Except when they traded for Denny McClain.
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>We had our team spirit which nothing would drown,
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>'Til '71 when the Senators left town.
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>Now Boston had a curse and Chicago the blues,
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>But the Senators were the ones who knew how to lose.
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>And we can recall that very last game,
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>When the fans took the field--oh, what a shame!
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>And Mike Kekich served up a gopher ball pitch,
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>And Frank Howard slammed that son of a ------.
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>In that moment they were special--a team of renown--
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>'Til the very next day when the Senators left town.
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>So I look back and recall when we wore our red hats,
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>And would cheer and drink beer and pull for the Nats.
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>But my thoughts are now distant and hopeless they seem,
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>For Angelos will surely block any new team.
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>Maybe Collins will get lucky--let's hope he can do,
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>And D.C. baseball will be back for a year, mybe two.
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>But I continue to sit back with my ever-lastin' frown,
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>For my childhood ended when the Senators left town.
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