Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!hou5d!hogpc!houxt!klein From: klein@houxt.UUCP (N.KLEIN) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Curt Flood Message-ID: <329@houxt.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 09:11:48 EDT Article-I.D.: houxt.329 Posted: Mon Aug 1 09:11:48 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 20:06:25 EDT References: <1864@floyd.UUCP> umcp-cs.1233 Lines: 20 Those days of sitting in DC (then changed name to RFK) Stadium watching Senator games are long gone. If anyone thinks Steinbrenner is unpopular what about Bob Short? Because of a disagreement he had with the DC Armory Board (owners of the stadium) he did everything he could to keep fans from coming to the games. Here are a few of them: 1) As umcp-cs!petec mentioned the infamous Denny McLain deal. Trading away Ed Brinkman, Aurilio Rodriguez, Joe Coleman, and Jim Hannan - the former 2 which were of the more popular Nats for Denny Mclain (who proceeded to lose 26 games that year) and a host of other losers. 2) Practically doubling the ticket prices giving a team with one of the worst records the highest ticket prices in the league. 3) Taking away all bat days, ball days, etc. 4) Having only one scheduled home double header the whole season (of course it was in early April not on Memorial Day or later in the season). 5) Slowly but surely trading away the other few good players (if not for the fact that he would have been assassinated had he tried to trade Frank Howard he probably would have done that also). As umcp-cs!petec said life is just not the same without the Senators. NDK