WASHINGTON — My brothers Michael and Martin attended baseball’s opening day on the previous Griffith Stadium in April 1951, with the Senators (as our crew was then referred to as) taking part in the Yankees. President Harry Truman had been invited to throw out the primary pitch, and the stadium erupted in boos; Truman had simply fired the extraordinarily standard Gen. Douglas MacArthur as commander of the Far East, and the group was irate.
When the boys bought dwelling, Martin confessed to our father that he had stood as much as…
