Spring Training 2021 comes to an end on March 30, and the 2021 MLB season officially begins April 1, with the Yankees vs. Blue Jays at 1:05 at Yankee Stadium.

My archives are a series of Ozzie Sweet original film/pictures taken in 1971 at the Washington Senators Training camp. This year made it 50 years ago. Since 90-percent of those pictures have not been seen in public, I thought, time to share them. On March 22, I began posting pictures of Ozzie Sweets 1971, Washington Senators, photoshoot for Sport magazine on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/ballparkprints

Why 1971? In February 1971, the Washington Senators spring-training camp opened, helmed by manager Ted Williams. In camp is Curt Flood, who lost his challenge to baseball reserve clause in court. And Denny McLain, who broke baseball's rules associating with gamblers.

Curt Flood, age 33, left the team 13 games into the season, never to play again. Denny McLain fought with Ted Williams all season, winning only 10-games, losing 22. By the age of 28, 1972 playing for two other teams, 2x Cy Young and 1x MVP, and last pitcher to win 30 games going 31-6 1n 1968, was out of baseball forever.

During the 1971 season, the Washington Senators announced they would relocate to Texas for the 1972 season as the Texas Rangers.

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