• Throwback Crib Bio: Griffith Stadium

  • Apr 11 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Throwback Crib Bio: Griffith Stadium

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  • When a plumber's blowtorch accidentally causes Washington D.C's Boundary Field to burn to the ground in 1911. engineers from the Cleveland based Osborne Company quickly construct Griffith Stadium inside the skeletal remains of Boundary Field. and it would serve as the Senators home park from 1911 to 1961. The stadium would become a centerpiece for baseball in the district housing the Senators and the Homestead Grays Negro League team, as well as the Washington Redskins NFL football team, that relocates from Boston to Washington in 1937. It would also feature boxing and wrestling matches, concerts, the circus. religious revivals, George Washington University, the Georgetwon Hoyas, Howard University and Maryland Terrapins college sports during this time. This week's profile is on this throwback crib's profound construction and history that would leave an indellible impression on the sporting theater of the Nation's Capital. #ClarkeGriffith #GriffithStadium #WashingtonDC #WashingtonSenators #WashigtonNationals #WilliamHowardTaft #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #GeorgeWashingtonUniversity #GeorgeTownHoyas #MarylandTerrapins #HowardUniversityHospital #WashingtonRedskins
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