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A
baseball team will be back in Washington for the 2008 season!
For those of you who remember the traditional Washington
Senators—the team that left the District of Columbia over forty
years ago—it’s a time for nostalgia, a time to remember the
Washington
teams, and all of baseball of the 1940s and 50s, and the standout
players of those years.
You
can enjoy viewing a personal record of those years, made by the man
who, by most accounts, was the most outstanding Senator of that
era—Mickey Vernon.
See his teammates and opponents as he saw them—captured by
Mickey on film that he took with a home movie camera from 1947
through the early ‘60s.
If you have ever
felt a longing for the game of baseball as it used to be, here’s
your chance to rekindle the passion you had for the game during
those years.
As
a classic American ritual is about to be revived in our capital
city, recall what it was like as you watch Presidents Truman,
Eisenhower and Kennedy throw out the first ball of the season.
Here
is a film that will remind you of baseball in the post-WWII and
Korean War eras, when it was played by men who, in many cases, were
called on to sacrifice vital portions of their careers to military
service—men who were part of what author Tom Brokaw called
“the greatest generation.”
It’s a record of one of the golden eras of baseball, filmed
and narrated by one of the greatest players of that era—a record
you’ll show and return to often for years to come.
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