The softball team of the Clifford Chance law firm's Washington DC office challenged its New York counterpart to a East Coast Championship Series. It would be the best of 3, with the winner taking all of the bragging rights. The games would be held near the Potomac River on September 12, 2004. The New York office accepted the challenge and now all we had to was get there.

I invited my wife and daughter to come with me to serve as our cheerleading section and to have a nice time out. We left our home in Islip at around 11:30 AM on September 11, and headed down I-95 and arrived at our hotel in the 2100 block of P Street NW around 5:10 PM.

After we checked in we walked down P Street through Georgetown to the campus of Georgetown University. We walked though the pedestrian only entrance at P and 37th Streets and were greated by a statue of the Polish patriot Jan Karski, sitting on a bench with a chessboard. After a photo shoot my wife and daughter went back to the hotel while I explored more of the campus. In the evening we met some of my teammates for dinner at an Italian restaurant on Connecticut Avenue.

The games actually began around 11:00 AM at a ballfield located at Ohio Drive and West Basin Drive in the Southwest Quadrant. The copse of trees at the end of left field separates the field from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. But since we got there a bit early, my wife, daughter and I decided to visit the National World War II and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorials. When we were in Washington DC in July 2000 (see my main page www.minot43.homestead.com) these memorials did not exist. It turns out that before the games I explored the FDR Memorial while my wife and daughter went to the World War II site. During the games they went to the FDR Memorial with the camera. I visited the National World War II Memorial after the games. Before we left to come home we stopped at the Georgetown campus to visit my nephew, a sophmore. Here are links to the FDR Memorial www.nps.gov/fdrm/ and to the National World War II Memorial www.wwiimemorial.com/


	Where We Stayed 2120 P Street NW Washington, DC

The games themselves were exciting. I caught part of he first game and part of the second game. During the first game I was able to hold on to a foul tip so the batter was out and a rally ended. However, the DC office won Game 1 10-4. Game 2 ended in a NY victory, 8-6. Since it was getting hot and several players wanted to go home to watch the Redskins football game, there was no game 3 and the series ended in a draw. So it was decided that the two offices will share the bragging rights.