Fifty years ago, on Sept. 30, 1971, Dick Bosman took the mound to preside over a wake.
Washington baseball fans had gathered at RFK Stadium to say their goodbyes to the second incarnation of the dying Senators, who would be resurrected the following year in a Texas cowtown called Arlington — a suburb of the bigger cowtown of Dallas.
For some local fans, Moscow would have been an easier pill to swallow than seeing their beloved team transplanted to the backyard of their football team’s hated rival.
Then again, it probably didn’t matter much where they went.