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DiMaggio triples in first night game in DC
- Updated: May 28, 2016
WASHINGTON, May 28, 1941 — The lights came on for the first time in a baseball game in the nation’s capital. And the Yankees’ offense came alive at the right time.
It was the first night game at Griffith Stadium on Wednesday, and the glow cast by the banks of lights above the field illuminated more dramatic exploits by the surging visiting team, which rallied for a stirring 6 to 5 victory before 25,000 persons that handed the moribund Senators their 10th consecutive defeat.
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Before the game even began, the spectacle of electric possibility was honored by the presence of legendary hurler Walter “Big Train” Johnson, whose ceremonial first pitch, …
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