JoPo Pens EPIC History On Old School Congressional Baseball Game

One of the best sports writers ever to work in Kansas City offers perspective on recent events. Take a look:

Congressional Game memento of lost time

This Congressional Baseball Game idea began in 1909, a very different time, before New Mexico or Arizona were states, when women could not vote, when Babe Ruth was still at the St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys. John Tener, a pitcher who won 25 games for the Chicago White Stockings and Pittsburgh Burghers between 1888-90, became a Republican congressman in 1908.

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