When baseball’s return to the District became a reality late last year, city officials and MLB execs agreed that RFK Stadium would serve as a temporary home for the Washington Nationals. The donut-shaped stadium, some 40 years old and lacking in many of the amenities that modern team owners now demand, was merely a pit stop on the way to a new, state-of-the-art stadium in Southeast. But given the recent troubles brewing over baseball in…

Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Ca.) is just one of those guys you wish you just wouldn’t hear from anymore. First he comes along and tries to sneak legislation through that would have allowed the sale of Theodore Roosevelt Island Park to private developers, only to be shamed into removing the offending provision. Now the Post informs us that Pombo — never an enemy of corporate interests and private developers — is trying to allow the…

(Editor’s Note: And for the first part of our Nationals opening day coverage, we start outside the stadium.) As 46,000 anxious baseball fans filed slowly into Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium for the Nationals’ long-awaited return to the District, 100 students, parents and activists protested the state of the city’s schools. Standing behind a banner that boldly read “Millions for Stadiums, Peanuts For Schools,” they denounced schools in disrepair and falling behind in most education…

When the next chapter of Washington’s baseball history is written this spring, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium will once again become a focal point of this city’s attention. Since the Redskins moved out in 1997, it has mostly been a soccer field. And no matter how much D.C. United and MLS hype Freddy Adu, chances are you haven’t stopped by in some time. As you’re standing in line to see the Nationals in the…