When the World Series shifts to Washington for Game 3 tonight, Houston Astros star third baseman Alex Bregman will be returning to the scene of his grandfather’s crime against Washington baseball.
The “crime,” in this case, was persuading Bob Short to buy the Washington Senators, because Short wound up moving the team to Texas a few years later. OK, so maybe Stanley Bregman didn’t actually commit the crime, but he was an unwitting accomplice.
Like most interesting tales in Washington, this one involves politics.
It starts with the 1968 presidential election.