Frank, you the man.
Frank Robinson out by the Turnstiles on 23 July 2006 chatting with the fans . Frank Robinson, Major league Baseball player for twenty years, 1956-1976. Manager of the Washington Nationals. Standing alone down by the turnstiles one day back in July. Shaking hands and talking unannounced - no banners with the ticket-buyers filing in. I was going through the line with my Dad, brother-in-law Doug and nephew Grant when I thought the man in the red shirt looked familiar. I circled back to take this picture.  They are going to let him go.
Robinson Is Elusive After Meeting Robinson doesn't want to make a full announcement until after the season but its hard to hide how you feel. Tom Boswell wrote a column about this a week ago, trying to parse the "new owners thinking as they stopped talking to Frank
Thomas Boswell: It's starting to look like Frank Robinson won't be back as manager in 2007. A matter of numbers, Won-lost. Just business, you understand. Boswell has another one out I think for todays paper
Thomas Boswell - After So Long, So Long, where he attempts to evoke what a tough few years its been for the Expo/-TBA-/Nationals. Playing home games the way other teams play away games... Newspaper type coverage of all this here
Washington Nationals: DC Baseball (washingtonpost.com)
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