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Washington Hosts the Midsummer Classic, 1937

Washington Hosts the Midsummer Classic, 1937

07/11/2017 in DC by Mark Jones

"The visions that baseball fans could conjure only in their fondest dreams will evolve as realisms at Griffith Stadium on Wednesday when spectacle will be heaped on spectacle, thrill piled on thrill. There, in a contest apart from all the rest, the dream game comes to life." Though few others described the mood as eloquently as Shirley Povich, many in the nation’s capital shared his excitement as Washington prepared to host its first baseball All-Star game in 1937.

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It's Raining Bottles at Griffith Stadium: The Music Battle of 1942

It's Raining Bottles at Griffith Stadium: The Music Battle of 1942

06/07/2013 in DC by Ariel Veroske

On July 23, 1942, Washingtonians packed Griffith Stadium to the gills for a special “Battle of Music” between African American jazz legend Louis Armstrong and white saxophonist Charlie Barnet. In segregated Washington of the 1940s, such an organized interracial competition was a big event and few people — especially in the black community that surrounded the stadium — wanted to miss the “musical fisticuffs.”

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