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General Wainwright (Medal of Honor Recipient in 1945),
Emmett Lanier, Clark Griffith
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Talk about an exciting moments!
Washington
Senators' Opening Game, April 16, 1946, I was in a movietone newsreel shaking hands with Ted Williams when he hit his first
home run and crossed home plate after returning from being a Marine Corp pilot in World War II.
At another Opening
Game at Griffith Stadium President Truman signed a baseball for me.
And in September 2001, to be honored as a panelists
for "The Legacy of Griffith Stadium" a Sports Symposium presented by Howard University Hospital where home plate still exists
inside the Hopital marking the spot where Griffith Stadium once was.
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- General Wainwright, hero and survivor of the Bataan Death March, Corregidor, is shown
signing a baseball for me.
- 1941 to 1946 (the War Years) in Griffith Statium, I was "Visiting Batboy" for the Washington
Senators.
- Clark Giffith, Owner of the Washington Senators is standing next to me looking on.
- The Baseball
is among the missing but this picture and memories live on!
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