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Saturday, November 02, 2019

Washington Nationals World Series victors bring World Championship home - welcomed by a parade and tens of thousands of fans - First Title in 95 years!!!



While enjoying the photos of the Nationals parade in our nation's Capital Saturday to celebrate their World Series Championship, think about the historical impact of this event.



It is one of few glorious moments in the Capital in recent history as an intellectually constipated Congress or a three-year Impeachment battle dominated the headlines.   



The team who traded away their star before the season began, were 19-31 in late May, had the worst record of any team in the playoffs, were given no chance to win their division, the National League pennant and most certainly the World Series, stunned the baseball world.

1924 parade
The last World Series won by a team from Washington DC was in 1924, the Washington Senators, nearly one hundred years ago.  What did the world look like back then?



Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 53 



Woodrow Wilson died, the 28th president of the United States



Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House


Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for "Beer Hall Putsch" 



Marlon Brando, actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather)


 J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at age 29


Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians


The comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" by Harold Gray (d. 1968) made its debut in the NY Daily News




Baseball’s first "colored World Series" was held in Kansas City, Mo



The New York Times published news of Edwin Hubble’s discoveries of other galactic systems



Rod Sterling (d. 1975), writer and host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery), was born in Syracuse, NY



Albert Einstein completed a manuscript that predicted that particles of gas near absolute zero will clump together in one larger mono-atom



Peter Pan was first produced as a Broadway musical



Calvin Coolidge was re-elected president



The Ku Klux Klan numbered four million members



 Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), died

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Washington Nationals defy the experts, the odds, and history to become World Champions - Win five straight do or die games and four road games to shock sports world!!


Finally, after three years of political chaos, the Washington Nationals baseball team brought sanity, community and joy to the nation's capital.



It is the first world championship for the Nationals!



It was the first World Series in history in which the visiting team won every game!



The Nationals beat the favorite four times in Houston!



The last time a Washington team won the World Series was in 1933!



In May the Nats were 19-31, in last place!



The Nats won five do or die games in the playoffs!



The Nationals consistently came from behind in the late innings to win!



The Nats are the third DC sports team to win a world championship recently!



The Washington Capitals and Washington Mystics also won world championships!



Nats pitcher Stephen Strasburg was 5-0 in playoffs and Series MVP!



The owner of the Nationals is 94 years old!



David verses Goliath and David won!



Thank you Washington Nationals for giving Washington, DC a reason to smile!