Imagine a world in which Washington, D.C., hadn’t gone 34 years without a baseball team. That concept was a virtual inevitability in 1973.
Two years removed from the expansion Washington Senators bolting to Texas to become the Rangers, hope prevailed throughout the city that Major League Baseball would return sooner rather than later.
Joseph Danzansky, who owned several D.C.-area Giant Food grocery stores at the time, along with attorney Marvin Willig and dentist Robert Schattner — the inventor of Chloraseptic and Sporicidin — led the charge to bring baseball back to the District.
