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Article: VOA NEWS: WASHINGTON'S RFK STADIUM HOSTS IT'S LAST BASEBALL GAME
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 23, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Parke Brewer
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington played host to its final Major League Baseball game on Sunday with a contest between the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer was there and has a report.
The 56,000-seat RFK Stadium was built in 1961 as the home stadium for both the National Football League's Washington Redskins and baseball's Washington Senators. The owner of the Senators moved the team to Texas after the 1971 season and the nation's capital had no professional baseball team until the Montreal Expos moved here in 2005. But the league agreed to the move only if a new stadium ...
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