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Griffith Stadium and the Homestead Grays
Georgia Avenue, Washington
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Home of the Senators, who were first in war, first in peace and last in the American League. The Negro League Homestead Grays often outdrew them in the same park, and Josh Gibson hit balls out of it.
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