The worst seats in RFK on really hot days were in the mezzanine section. You might catch the occasional light breeze in the upper deck, but there was no air circulation in the mezzanine at all.
Players noticed the heat, too. Dave Baldwain, a relief pitcher for the 1969 Senators -- the last Washington baseball team to finish above .500 -- recalled that "It was unbearable in that bullpen. We would sit there and just bake. All the heat funneled right to us. Your strength would be gone before you even got into a game if you weren't careful. We'd go back underneath the stadium as much as we could. You couldn't watch the ballgame from back there, but it was cool. So we'd escape every chance we had". [Stephen J Walker, "A Whole New Ballgame", p54]
