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| | Baseball Toaster: The Griddle : Random Game Callback, May 6, 1887 |
 | | There wasn't much scoring at Washington's Swampoodle Grounds, but there was plenty of controversy and a near riot as the Philadelphia Phillies edged the Washington Senators, 2-1, before a crowd estimated at 1,500. |
 | | Charlie Ferguson, the man who hit the double that set everybody aflame, would pass away in Philadelphia in less than a year on April 29, 1888 of some form of typhoid fever or malaria at age 25. |
 | | I think that as a tribute to the city's baseball heritage, the new park they're building in Washington should be called Swampoodle Grounds. |
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