Wash Post Article: D.C.'s Major Player: It Had Been 38 Years Since a D.C. Public School Sent Someone To the Big Leagues

(pictured: Cardoza High School's Maury Wills of the LA Dodgers)

A great article on all of the talented ballplayers that have come out of D.C.'s High Schools over the years and have gone on to play for The Major Leagues.
~LT

D.C.'s Major Player
It Had Been 38 Years Since a D.C. Public School Sent Someone To the Big Leagues, Until a Wilson High Shortstop Defied the Odds

By Dave Sheinin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 4, 2008; Page D01

SAN FRANCISCO -- How long is 38 years in baseball? Long enough to take you from Jackie Robinson's final season to Alex Rodriguez's first. Long enough for Major League Baseball to desert the District of Columbia for a second time, then finally come crawling back a third. Long enough for ballfields across the District to become overgrown with weeds and broken bottles, or blacktopped over and turned into basketball courts. Long enough for young men who once played ball on those fields to grow old, and for old men to pass away and take their memories with them.

We've had good ballplayers come out of the District, the old-timers on their stoops would say. There was Maury Wills, the great Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop out of Cardozo High. He broke into the majors in '59. And then there was. . .

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