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	Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A modern stadium (plural stadiums, Latin plural stadia) is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
		The term "stadium" is also often used for baseball parks, especially since the construction of Yankee Stadium in 1923, but starting in the 1990s the cozier term "ballpark" has returned to favor for baseball-only facilities.
		Before more modern football stadiums were built in the United States, many baseball parks, including Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds, Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park, Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park, Griffith Stadium, Milwaukee County Stadium, Shibe Park, Forbes Field and Sportsman's Park were used by the National Football League or the American Football League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stadium (1207 words)

	Griffith Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Griffith Stadium was a sports stadium that stood in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1965, at the corner of Georgia Avenue and W Street, NW.
		The stadium was home to the American League Senators from 1911 to 1960, and an expansion team of the same name in 1961.
		Griffith Stadium was demolished in 1965 and Howard University Hospital now stands on the site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Griffith_Stadium (573 words)

	Encyclopedia: Griffith Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, informally known as RFK Stadium, is a professional sports stadium that opened in the fall of 1961.
		Griffith Stadium was a baseball stadium that stood in Washington, DC from 1911 - 1965, at the corner of 7th and W St., NE.
		While Griffith Stadium 's left field fence was usually over 380' away, right field was never more than 330', but it was guarded by a 30' wall that extended all the way to the centerfield bleachers, jutting in dramatically in deep right-center to allow for a large tree on the outside.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Griffith-Stadium (1892 words)

	Griffith Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An earlierwooden baseball stadium that stood on the site, built in 1891, was destroyed by a fire in March, 1911, and replaced by the steel and concreteGriffith Stadium.
		The stadium was home to the WashingtonSenators of the American League from 1911 - 1960, and an expansion team of the same name in 1961.
		It was at Griffith Stadium that the tradition of having the President of the United States throw out a ceremonial first pitch before the Opening Daygame was begun by William Howard Taft.
	www.therfcc.org /griffith-stadium-271460.html (291 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ Griffith Stadium
		Griffith Stadium gave the impression that its various sections were just thrown together at random.
		Although the main structure of Griffith Stadium was fairly plain, just unadorned bare steel girders like at Sportsman's Park, it still had many funky oddities that made games there quite unique.
		The left field foul line in Griffith Stadium ran for 405 feet, longer than in any other stadium, except for Braves Field in the early years, but the fence in front of the left field bleachers angled inward, so that the left center distance was actually shorter, 391 feet.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/GriffithStadium.html (989 words)

	Griffith's finale
		Stadiums like Griffith were not yet rare or classic.
		In 1961 Washington fans had little appetite for celebrating the rundown stadium that their new team was renting from the infamous owner of their old team.
		The game was expected to be the Griffith finale, but it was not certain, as the Senators and D.C. Armory Board had not agreed to a lease at the new D.C. Stadium.
	www.ballparktour.com /Griffith.html (1406 words)

	Beyond the Shadow of the Senators
		Griffith Stadium is packed for a doubleheader between the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees.
		Sam Lacy, an eighteen-year-old stadium vendor and future sportswriter, is selling soft drinks and making comparisons between the white players in major league baseball and the fl players in the Negro Leagues whose teams play at Griffith Stadium when the Senators are out of town.
		Griffith Stadium was one of the few outdoor places in segregated Washington where fls could enjoy themselves with whites.
	www.beyondtheshadow.com /book_intro.html (1577 words)

	Ballpark Digest -- Griffith Stadium
		Griffith Stadium was one of the first of the classic concrete-and-steel major-league ballparks built in the 20th century.
		Griffith Stadium, along with Forbes Field, was home to the Homestead Grays of the Negro National League.
		One of the more unusual forfeits in baseball history occurred in Griffith Stadium on Aug. 15, 1941, when the umps called a game between the Nationals and the Boston Red Sox because they felt the grounds crew was taking too long to cover the field.
	www.ballparkwatch.com /stadiums/past/griffith_stadium.htm (2054 words)

	Ballparks of Baseball-Griffith Stadium-Washington Senators
		However, the new second deck of Griffith Stadium did not connect to the original part because the original stands were graded differently.
		This led to a decline in attendance at Griffith Stadium.
		Griffith decided to move the Senators to Minneapolis’s Metropolitan Stadium after the 1960 season.
	www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/GriffithStadium.htm (500 words)

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		Originally called "D.C. Stadium," this was the first of the boring doughnut-shaped "cloned" dual-use stadiums that spread like crabgrass during the 1960s and 1970s.
		RFK is the smallest stadium of this genre, which gives it a somewhat cozier feeling that greatly accentuated the noise level of Redskins games during their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s.
		One of the aesthetic drawbacks of RFK stadium is that the lights were attached to the roof in a haphazard fashion, not in sync with the curved roofline.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/RFKStadium.html (2219 words)

	Howard University'
		In observance of the Howard University and Howard University Hospital sponsorship of the Griffith Stadium Memorial, a sports symposium was held Sept. 25 in the Blackburn Center.
		Griffith Stadium was built in 1891 on the land now occupied by Howard University Hospital.
		For nearly 60 years the stadium was a central venue for sports, entertainment and civic activities, serving as home for numerous teams in the Washington, D.C. area including the Washington Senators and the Homestead Grays, a premier Negro League team.
	www.howard.edu /newsevents/Capstone/2001/October/BRIEFS.HTM (442 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Third Stadium a Real Charm
		First, there was Griffith Stadium, the cozy, five-sided wooden structure that housed the Senators beginning in 1911 and the Redskins starting in 1937.
		It was the Redskins, who, beginning in 1937, began to dominate the Washington scene from their Griffith Stadium days until their move to RFK along with the Senators in 1961.
		But in Griffith Stadium on Dec. 8, 1940, it was horrors: 73-0 Bears, with the referee asking them to stop kicking points after touchdowns, and try passes, as they were running out of footballs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/stadium.htm (1175 words)

	Ballpark Digest -- Griffith Stadium
		Griffith owned the team for 35 years, and you can divide his teams into two eras: the early era where the Senators were always competitive and the later era where the teams stunk and attendance consistently lagged in the American League.
		Griffith hired Johnson as manager in 1929, and over the course of four seasons Johnson led the team to a 350-264 record, never finishing higher than second but never finishing lower than fifth.
		There was a dark side to both eras: while Griffith ran a tight operation, he also made good money renting Griffith Stadium to the Homestead Grays and refused to sign a fl player to a team playing in the middle of a thriving fl middle-class neighborhood.
	www.ballparkdigest.com /stadiums/past/griffith_stadium_4.htm (1096 words)

	Stadium For Rent: Ch. 2. For a Team To Be Named Later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From 1920 until 1984, starting with Clark Griffith and then his stepson Calvin in 1955, a Griffith was always president of the Minnesota Twins, one of the most enduring families in the game's history.
		When the elder Griffith died in 1955, leaving the day-to-day running of the club in Calvin's hands (Calvin and Thelma Haynes each received a 25.5 percent stock interest in the Senators), his adopted son tried to follow Clark's wishes.
		Griffith says he went to the 1960 winter meetings in New York unaware that his Senators had played their last game in Griffith Stadium.
	www.andelman.com /sfr/sfr-ch02.html (2267 words)

	Griffith Stadium - BR Bullpen
		From 1915, four years after the ball park opened, until 1955, the year Clark Griffith died and a year before the fences were moved in, very few hitters drove the ball out of the park at Griffith Stadium.
		Even in the live ball era, Griffith Stadium yielded an amazingly few home runs, the tops for a season before 1956 being 60 in 1938 -- at that, it was still the lowest total in the Majors.
		Clark Griffith, late in his long run as Washington owner, was quoted as having said; “The fans seem to enjoy home runs, so we’ve assembled a pitching staff to give them what they want.’’ In fact, however, that never happened in his lifetime.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Griffith_Stadium (427 words)

	Cultural Tourism DC - African American Heritage Trail
		Griffith Stadium was named for Clark Griffith, the manager/owner of the Senators baseball team, in 1924.
		Griffith Stadium was home to the Washington Senators, the white American League baseball team, and the Homestead Grays of the Negro Leagues.
		Griffith Stadium was also a place for young people to make money.
	culturaltourismdc.org /info-url3948/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=204789&... (315 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Griffith Stadium
		Griffith Stadium, located at Seventh Street and Florida Avenue NW where the Howard University Hospital now stands, usually was a good place to catch a nap when the Senators were playing.
		Griffith Stadium, named for the family that owned the franchise but never was rich enough to stock it with talent, was the bane of many sluggers...
		I enjoyed going to the games at Griffith Stadium as a kid growing up in DC, but I don't think we should have at team at the expense of the things that are essential to a decent standard of living.
	venues.surfwax.com /files/Griffith_Stadium.html (2400 words)

	RFK Memorial Stadium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The end-zone seats are closest to the field, allowing fans to ride visiting quarterbacks when their teams must operate in the shadow of the goal posts.
		Stadium employees work for the city, not the Redskins, and are known to give civil servants and uncivil reputation.
		The Redskins are moving from the 53,000-seat stadium, known as D.C. Stadium when it was built in 1961 and now the smallest in the NFL, into a 78,600-seat state-of-the-art facility five miles away in Landover, Maryland.
	www.sfo.com /~csuppes/NFL/WashingtonRedskins/oldindex.htm (932 words)

	BallparkTour.com - RFK Stadium
		Griffith decided to shun the new ballpark in D.C. in favor of a growing market in the mid-west.
		Built on reclaimed swamp land, the stadium was subjected early to the barbs of local wits.
		Manager Frank Robinson, who hit three home runs at RFK Stadium as a Baltimore Oriole, is concerned that the mislabeled dimensions, and the park's size in general, could affect his team's mind-set.
	www.ballparktour.com /RFK_Stadium.html (2837 words)

	BallparkTour - Former ballparks of Washington-- Griffith Stadiium
		In 1920, after Clark Griffith became president and gave his name to the park, the stands were double-decked beyond first and third base.
		Curiously, the roof of the new stands was built higher than the roof of the old stands, giving the impression that the new stands had been built by a carpenter with a faulty foot rule.
		Griffith Stadium, which also hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1937 and 1956 and three World Series in 1924, 1925 and 1933, remained the home of the Washington franchise until it was moved to Minneapolis following the 1960 season.
	www.ballparktour.com /Washington_DC_Ballparks.html (2618 words)

	Stars kept in the dark \| csmonitor.com
		Griffith's team was thin on talent, and he had neither the money nor the inclination to invest in the latest trend - a minor league farm system.
		Besides the Senators' need for players, Griffith Stadium was located in the middle of a thriving fl neighborhood.
		The city had a large and affluent fl population that would have filled the stadium to see one of their own in a Senators' uniform.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0320/p18s01-bogn.htm (805 words)

	Washington Baseball
		On September 30, 1971, the last game was played in Washington at R.F.K. Stadium, when the team that would become the Texas Rangers was strained to surrender their final game to the Yankees due to the over interference of the Senators fans.
		Johnson and Griffith are perhaps among the most celebrated 14 Hall of Famers who played in the jersey of Senators.
		The 1937 play-off at Griffith Stadium is famous for the line drive by Earl Averill that ruptured the toe in Dizzy Dean's left foot and changed the course of his career.
	www.washington-baseball.com (679 words)

	Major League Baseball : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1920, the American League Base Ball Park was renamed Griffith Stadium in recognition of the franchise's owner and president, Clark Griffith.
		Griffith Stadium was demolished in 1965 and is now utilized by Howard University.
		A federally-owned stadium, District of Columbia Stadium was a new three-tiered, multi-purpose facility constructed near the Potomac River at a cost of approximately $24 million.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20040930&content_id=876716&vkey=news_mlb_nd&fext=.jsp (1126 words)

	Item Information \| Hometowne Collectibles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the park became Griffith Stadium (for its new owner), and all seating became double-decked, covered grandstands.
		Griffith Stadium was also the half-home of a Negro National League team, which played here when the regular team was away.
		The stadium, which had been home to boxing and football in addition to baseball, was demolished in
	www.htowne.com /items/itemhtAS03.asp (344 words)

	DC Sports & Entertainment Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When I went to San Diego's new stadium recently I saw they had a beach in their outfield, with a see through fence for kids to actually play on and watch the game.
		The worse part about some new stadiums is that you feel as if you're in another state when sitting in the upper deck.
		In the current RFK and old Tiger Stadium there was an intimacy that you could look into the pitchers eyes while staring down from the upper deck.
	www.dcsec.com /newballpark/comments4.html (1230 words)

	Washington Senators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is said that prior to the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro tried out for the Senators as a pitcher during the early 1950s.
		The team played its games at Griffith Stadium, sharing it with the Homestead Grays of the Negro League.
		Ted Williams managed the team from 1969 to 1971, and moved with the franchise to Texas in 1972.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/washington_senators (464 words)

	Ballparks of Baseball-RFK Stadium-Washington Nationals
		Originally, the Washington Senators played at Griffith Stadium, but after the 1960 season, they moved to Minneapolis, and became the Minnesota Twins.
		The team played one year at Griffith Stadium before moving into a new multipurpose stadium that was constructed near the Anacostia River.
		The stadium was named D.C. (District of Columbia) Stadium for its opening on April 9, 1962.
	www.ballparksofbaseball.com /nl/RFKStadium.htm (629 words)

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