Evening star., 1960-09-12
WIN, LOSE OR
GNAV By FRANCIS sTANN
No Place Like Home

OF THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES remaining games all
except two will be played the road and this may
factor-if not THE facor-which will the American
League pennant Ask any baseball man how advantageous
it is to play at home. Ask Calvin Griffith.
Cal wasn't the president of the Washington ball club
In 1945 but he sitting at the of his uncle Clark
Griffith and along with the gems of wisdom he picked
up Cal also saw OIL Grif pull colossal boo-boo The
Senators might have pennant if there had been
professional football in town.
That's what's buggng the Orioles-pro football In
Baltimore the mighty Colts ahead of the baseball
team and Staked first claim Municipal Stadium Thus
the reason why the Orioles playing schedule that
from here out calls for only two games with the Red
Sox on September 202 at home and the rest in somebody
ese's backyard.
There wasn't much the Orioles could do about their
schedule" Cal saying today. After ALL Baltimore
city park and the Colts first In invoking case
prvatey-owned stadium back in AS made mistake"
THERE WERE PERHAPS extenuating circumstances
The Senators of "A horrible club and when George
Preston Marshall of the Redskins asked up Griffith
Stadium for the last part of the baseball Griffith
CLARK that isl unable to predict that anything of
Importance would come of it.
AS the 1945 race turned out Grs club in those days
of 4-Fs with rush to contend with the Detroit
Tigers possibly the worst team to win American
League pennant But in keep with Marshall
the Senators had to invent doubeheader as finish
the well ahead of time and accommodate Marshall
THE doube-headers didn't help uS,' Calvin admits
Here and there might have picked up victory
normal conditions AS I remember, didn't play at all
for the last week or 10 days of the season.
"All we did was sit around and hope that Detroit
would get licked lot of guys had been ready to go
home but held the team in hotel in town. Some of
the pitchers-Dutch Leonard, Roger Wolff and Mickey
Haenerwe sent to Detroit to rest up for pennan play
off with the Tigers"
HANK GREENBERG fresh out of the Army but rusty
to doom the Senator'S While they listened hopefully
to their radios Greenberghit home in ST. Louis off
Nelson Potter with the bases loaded to cnch the
on the final day.
That would never happen again." Calvin saying
"Unk (hs pet for the Old Fox admitted that he
made mistake and warned to duplicate it. For
example, if club this had pennant chance
and World Series coming up Mr. Marshall would have
to do something about his football dates such the
on october 9.
"The Redskins to play Dallas here on October g.
If we in the World Seres-and maybe we're only
second catcher centerhelder and two pitchers
Marshall would have to take his game somewhere else
It's written in the contract"
Marshall, comedies Griffith, still had voice in the
American League baseball race, illustrating GPMs far
flung influence when the Colts into the National
Football League Cal says, Marshall as understand it,
gained certain jurisdiction senior cuboWner within
5Omile radius Anyway, Baltimore Stadium is tied up
September 25 the Redskins can play the Colts and
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