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Insider Baseball

Griffith’s answer may have been ugly, but in a sense, it wasn’t unusual. Since time immemorial, owners of major league baseball teams have blamed others for their teams’ financial failures. Griffith slighted the fans; when the District lost a second incarnation of the Senators in 1972, owners of that franchise cited the city’s refusal to […]