Capital Games

Thomas Boswell captures the big picture and the mood of baseball's rebirth in Washington.

Mike Wise on the convergence of passion and politics.

Despite glitches it was a good show.

Stark is Stark and has a fun column on the unique baseball atmosphere that will be Washington.

Washington Post's Photo Gallery has a neat 360 panoramic.

Thom Loverro looks at the connection of past and present Senators at the game.


The Washington Times has a nice piece of presidential pitchers and the history of chief execs throwing out the first pitch. Interestingly the Washington Times calls itself America's Newspaper, which seems a little pretentious for the distant second newspaper in a two-paper town.

Elsewhere:
Plaschke looks back at Jackie Robinson on the 58th anniversary of his Brooklyn debut.
ESPN has a look at the next wave of baseball pioneers.
The New York Times has a well-reported and disturbing story about homophobia in high school sports in Texas.
Rudy Martzke's farewell is hardly spirited.
There's a sidebar too.

The Boston Herald looked back at Rosie Ruiz.

Mike Vaccaro on Sheffield v. Fan.