ANALYSIS/OPINION:
HOUSTON — Somewhere on the façade outside Minute Maid Park — home of the Houston Astros and the host site for Tuesday night’s World Series Game 1 — there should be a plaque that reads, “Thank you to Washington baseball for the contribution to the building of this ballpark.”
Minute Maid Park, which opened in 2000 as Enron Field, doesn’t exist without the passion that fueled efforts to bring Major League Baseball back to Washington for decades after the Senators left for Arlington, Texas, following the 1971 season.