The Last Day of RFK -- for Baseball
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As part of the venerable minority in Washington that prefers baseball to football, I long ago made peace with the fact that this is a football town and that The Post is a force for football frenzy. That the front pages of the Sept. 24 paper and the Sports section featured coverage of an early-season Redskins loss after baseball's last day at RFK Stadium was unsurprising, as were the five pages of Skins coverage in the Sports section, compared with less than a page for the Nationals. I was surprised that the Nats rated even a picture at the bottom of the front page and a front-page Metro story.
But an even greater surprise was that Thomas Boswell, the one Post columnist I considered a baseball fan, devoted his column to the Redskins. I had only just referred football-preferring friends of mine to Boswell's 1987 piece listing 99 reasons baseball is better than football ["Why Is Baseball So Much Better Than Football? Let Me Count the Ways," Magazine, Jan. 18, 1987]. Writing after the exciting '86 baseball postseason and amid a continuing series of Super Bowl blowouts, Boswell argued convincingly that baseball was a better game. I enjoyed his pre-closing tribute to RFK ["RFK Is Full of Concrete Memories," Sports, Sept. 20] but was hoping to see a piece on the emotions of the final game Sept. 23, with its implications for D.C. baseball.
Baseball's still better, but has Boswell lost his way? Does baseball have no allies at The Post?
-- John L. Schuster
Arlington
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I read with interest recent stories concerning RFK Stadium, prompted by the Nationals leaving the ballpark for their new home in the District.
It was surprising and disappointing to me and, I'm sure, to tens of thousands of D.C. United fans, to see the dismissive way in which our contributions to the history of the building and its immediate future were considered.
