OK. I declare this game over for the veterans of WNFF. We don't need to watch more.
The new folks are required to watch to the brutal end just in case they missed the seasons of Joel Hanrahan, Tim Redding, Austin "Oh But the Fences at RFK Are Too Far" Kearns, the Wildman Nyger Morgan, ? Backsic, and all the rest. Wow, I've forgotten so many bad ballplayers. I can still remember most of the players from the 1958 - 1960 Nats, including guys like Ron Samford and Billy Consolo, Ralph Lumenti and Dick Hyde, but these guys...
Kearns is my favorite clown, bro. RFK took away his "power". Maybe his magic power, but Frank Howard and Mike Epstein used to hit them into the upper deck. Hondo: 45 homers a season even before Ted Williams taught him to ignore bad pitches. And DC / RFK Stadium was small compared to Griffith Stadium...405 down the LF line until Calvin Griffith shortened left so Roy Sievers could hit more home runs. Calvin added bleachers so the LF line was merely 350 feet. Did not change CF, which was about 425 and had a 30-foot wall, with a flag-pole that was in-play.
(Someone on Facebook put a picture of a 1957 or '58 Roy Sievers baseball card. Sit down, Bryce. Sievers hit 42 homers in 1957 to lead the AL; then hit 38 or 39 homers in 1958.)
