Sometimes 30 days to write a monthly sports column is a difficult parameter and it is necessary to paint a photograph to accompany the text. That’s why you now see this one. This is a color photo. The background color is “Pennant Race.” It blankets the cityscape like a first […]
Notes On the Nats: Remembering to Breathe
Legend has it that baseball is America’s favorite sport. And in the wiring of my brain, that certainly is true. I was born in Brooklyn, NY when Jackie Robinson was a rookie for one of America’s classic sports love stories, the Brooklyn Dodgers. And my eight-year-old heart was easy pickings […]
ANC 6D: The Wharf Development, Lansburgh Park Movies and more
Hoffman-Madison, developers of The Wharf project along the waterfront in Southwest D.C., gave a three-projector presentation to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6D. They showed their plans for the new St. Augustine Episcopal Church, the apartment building south of it, and the Waterfront Park at the ANC meeting July 9. […]
Notes On the Nats: Bryce Harper in ‘The Moment’
This writer, as a young boy, loved a game we called “Running Bases.” I couldn’t get enough of it. I would enlist my dad and kid brother, my older sister, or anyone else I could charm or annoy into playing until they lost interest in it. It worked like this: […]
Nationals donation to benefit King-Greenleaf
Nats’ Bryce Harper Surprises Youth Baseball Clinic
Youth baseball players from around the region were able to experience the thrill of playing baseball on a Major League field in the first of three summer MedStar Health Youth Baseball Clinics, held May 19 at Nationals Park. Local young baseball players, the Junior Nationals Club, the Reviving Baseball in […]
Poem: Love Builds
It doesn’t get better than this. Bring mom and dad, brother and sis. Sports fan or not Care none or a lot This team you don’t want to miss. Their spirit will capture your heart. Underdogs rising are like that. Suffering years Of losing and tears Now Cupid aims true […]