{"id":1597,"date":"2019-10-16T17:29:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2019-10-16T17:29:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:29:21","slug":"damn-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Damn Yankees???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you old enough to remember may recall an old musical comedy set in Washington, D.C. in the 1950s. It\u2019s one of the few musicals I\u2019m aware of that\u2019s based on our national pastime \u2014 baseball. The musical is based on a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. If I remember correctly, (in the broadway version) the Washington Senators finally beat the Yankees for the American League Pennant. The play\/musical was based on a book by Douglass Wallop, <em>The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now that the Washington Nationals have just won the National League Pennant, people around here may possibly be using that \u201cDamn Yankees\u201d phrase again. Of course baseball, like everything else is different today than it was in the 1950s. Back then the Senators and the Yankees were both in the American League so they couldn\u2019t have competed in the World Series. And there\u2019s no assurance that the National\u2019s opponent in this years World Series will be the Yankees. For old time baseball fans, I think it would be nice to have a Washington &#8211; New York series.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has been a long suffering baseball town\u2026. the \u201coriginal\u201d Senators played in Washington from 1901 to 1960 \u2014 the \u201cexpansion\u201d Senators played here from 1960 to 1971. Washington was then without a major league team until 2005 when the Montreal Expos moved to Washington and were renamed the Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>I remember attending old Senators games at RFK Stadium when I began to be in and out of Washington in the early\/mid 60s. The games were inexpensive, it was easy to get to the stadium and I don\u2019t remember parking being a problem. It was particularly nice to be able to go to afternoon games\u2026. sit in the sun, have a hot dog and a beer and not have to sit through untold TV commercial breaks. Of course today, Nationals games are not inexpensive, the stadium isn\u2019t that easy to get to and parking is a major problem. BUT \u2014 the Nationals are going to the World Series! Go Nats!!<br \/>\n\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you old enough to remember may recall an old musical comedy set in Washington, D.C. in the 1950s. It\u2019s one of the few musicals I\u2019m aware of that\u2019s based on our national pastime \u2014 baseball. The musical is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}