Paul Casanova News Today

Spencer Hoopes spent the summer of 1969 watching Ted Williams and the Senators and helping his father, veteran Washington journalist Roy Hoopes, write "What a Baseball Manager Does."

The Senators’ spectacular losing record obscures one of the most important stories in baseball history: the clubs role in integrating Latino players into the major leagues

How Hank Aaron pumped up ex-Detroit Tiger Denny McLain in Atlanta Five days earlier, McLain had been traded from the Oakland Athletics — where he was stuck in Double-A Birmingham trying to recover from a shoulder injury — to the Atlanta Braves. Now, the 28-year-old former 30-game winner with the Detroit Tigers was back in the bigs and starting Game 2 of a doubleheader in front of 50,597 fans at Atlanta Stadium. But first, McLain wanted to locate Hammerin Hank, the Braves great who woul...