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Originally Posted by tbob
Congrats Hank! Very cool 
I hate to dog you Nationals fans but the Senators teams from the early 1900s to 1960 are the direct descendants of the Minnesota Twins, not the Washington Nationals. |
Bob -
You are of course correct. I remember very well as a kid when Calvin Griffith moved the team to the Twin Cities area. He had been flirting with Los Angeles before that. I wonder what turns history would have taken had he been able to close the deal with LA.
Anyway, they can heist our team but not our heritage and history. The legacy of Walter Johnson et al belongs no more in Minnesota than does Rusty Staub's belong in DC or George Sisler's in Baltimore.
As for Calvin Griffith, to paraphrase what someone once said about Walter O'Malley for having moved the Dodgers - If I had Hitler, Stalin, and Griffith in a room and I had a gun with only two bullets, I'd shoot Griffith twice.