Sad. He is my age, and might be the last DC writer who grew up reading Shirley Povich, and then worked beside Povich. Feeling old.
Boswell mentions that he wanted to write until the Nats got into the World Series. Any of us kids who were Nationals / Senators fans in the 1950s know exactly what he means. To Washingtonians our age, that meant growing up when our contact with good Nats teams was only in Povich's history of the Senators, from 1954. Old names like Walter Johnson and Sam Rice. We knew losing streaks and last-place finishes until, in 1960, the team got good. And went off to Minneapolis, leaving a hopeless expansion team.
2019 won't ever go away.
