SEATTLE — In the kingdom of the King, a few blocks south of the now-demolished Kingdome on South King Street, the prince was playing a two-handed, straight-deck game of 21-card rummy. His opponent folded. The card game turned into aces square, a variation of solitaire. Then it devolved into simple shuffling.
Antonio Senzatela worked off the nerves with his hands. “The Little Prince” — so named because he played the game as a child near the same mango tree groves of Valencia, Venezuela, that once shaded Seattle Mariners ace “King” Felix Hernandez — whittled away the time by himself Wednesday at a table alone in the middle of the Rockies’ visitors clubhouse.