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Griffith Stadium stood in Washington, D.C., from 1911 to 1965, between Georgia Avenue and 5th Street (left field), and between W Street and Florida Avenue NW. The site was once home to a wooden baseball park. Built in 1891, it was called Boundary Field, or National Park after the team that played there: the Washington Senators/Nationals.
Home of the Senators. (1911-1961) “Griffith Stadium” – Digital Art by Gary Grigsby. Griffith Stadium stood in Washington, D.C., from 1911 to 1965, between Georgia Avenue and 5th Street (left field), and between W Street and Florida Avenue NW. The site was once home to a wooden baseball park.
Griffith Stadium (Washington, DC) – Society for American Baseball Research. This article was written by John Schleppi. When the Washington Senators 1 were founded in 1891, they played their games at Boundary Field in Northwest Washington.
Mickey Mantle’s 565 ft. homerun in 1953. 500th career win by Cy Young on July 19, 1910. Pitcher Walter Johnson compiles 243 strikeouts and 1.09 ERA in 1913. In 1920 National Park was renamed Griffith Stadium after the owner of the Senators, Clark Griffith.
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The utter asymmetry of Griffith Stadium’s architecture had nothing on the asymmetry of the playing field, which expanded outward in all directions until it could go no further. The end points led to some wacky dimensions. In right field, a tall wall measuring 31 feet in height—just six feet shorter than Fenway Park’s famed Green Monster—was erected...
Remarkably, some of the game’s greatest sluggers managed to make Griffith Stadium look positively small. Early in 1953, The New York Yankees’ Mickey Mantle launched what’s undoubtedly the ballpark’s most famous home run when he smashed a ball over the fence, all 32 rows of the left-field bleachers, nicked the side of the National Bohemian Beer bill...
To accommodate the majority of major leaguers who possessed more mortal power (or none at all), Clark Griffith continuously toyed with moving in the distant fences in left. He did so twice, in 1946 and 1950—from 407 feet down the line to 375 and 388, respectively. In both cases, Griffith quickly moved them back—sometimes in midseason—because he dis...
One of Griffith Stadium’s more permanent seat was the Presidential Box. Located near the first base dugout, the special seat was reserved for American presidents and other dignitaries who apparently had nothing better to do than to watch the Senators lose. The Commander in Chief’s ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day was the ballpark’s most hallow...
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Oct 9, 2013 · The former site of Griffith Stadium is located only three and a half miles north of the Washington Nationals current ballpark – the new Nationals Park, and is well worth a visit for any of the team’s current fans who are interested in experiencing a little of D.C.’s baseball past.
Griffith Stadium was demolished in 1965, but not before being burnt badly in a fire on March 17, 1911, rebuilt by July 24, 1911, and hosting both the 1937 All-Star Game & 1956 All-Star Game. Baseball Almanac researches Griffith Stadium and provides every bit of statistical ballpark information possible.
