A flub that matters -- in Washington, maybe

Sonia Sotomayor may be a big Yankees fan, but she obviously doesn't know a thing about Washington baseball.

In an exchange with New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, she said people have been asking her about becoming a fan of the Washington Senators.

That's a flub.

The team has been known as both the Senators and the Nationals throughout the years, and twice left the city to spawn other franchises. But the current Washington baseball team, now called the Nationals, resumed playing in the nation's capital in 2005.

Maybe someone should give Sotomayor a copy of AP Writer Fred Frommer's
book: "The Washington Nationals: 1859 to Today."

-Jesse J. Holland, AP reporter, Supreme Court