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When the Washington Nationals play their home opener at R.F.K. Stadium this week, it will be the first regular-season major league game in the nation's capital since 1971. It also will be the first at-bat for a team trying to score with a demographic that has largely turned away from baseball. Just 8.7% of baseball fans nationwide last year, as measured by Simmons Market Research Bureau, were black--which mirrors the sport's racial makeup: 9% of last season's major leaguers were black, the fewest in 20 years, according to a University of Central Florida study...
...right-hander unveiled a sharp leg-kick, a hard fastball, a change-up, and a knee-buckling curve one typically would not expect of the big bat hitting fifth in the lineup and fielding third...
...that Griffith was gay. Griffith does not reveal his sexual orientation, but, he says calmly, "I wasn't nobody's faggot." In the 12th round, he trapped Paret in the corner and unleashed a brutal flurry of uppercuts to his head. Norman Mailer likened the barrage to "a baseball bat demolishing a pumpkin." Paret died 10 days later...
Senior Cecily Gordon anchors the defense at first base and brings a heavy bat at the plate. She led last year’s team in battingaverage (.317), slugging percentage (.468), and doubles...
...bat may end up being a big reason...