When Major League Baseball returned to Washington in 2005, the Nationals played their games at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. It had been 34 years since the city had a baseball team, but the stadium still held remnants of its last star before the game went away.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Frank Howard, the Washington Senators’ ‘Capital Punisher,’ dies at 87
One of baseball’s most feared hitters, the gigantic slugger belted the final home run for the old Washington Senators in 1971
By Matt Schudel
October 30, 2023 at 5:01 p.m. EDT