Don Richmond is met at home plate after hitting a game-winning two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to give Washington a 6-4 victory over Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1955 Pony League World Series at Washington Park. Washington avoided elimination by winning the game, then defeated Youngstown again to win the city’s only Pony championship.

Members of the 1955 Washington team that won the Pony League World Series included, front row, from left, Richie Strand, Jim Delaney, Jimmy Brown, Wayne DeWitt, Frank Steratore, Joe Hagen, Harold “Petey” Vactor, Don Voytek and Fred “Reggie” Bolden. Back row, are Bill Klinzing, Don Ferrell, John Phillips, manager Art Sandusky, PONY president Joe E. Brown, commissioner Lew Hays, coach John Bednarski, Joe Kern, Don Richmond and Dave Bell.

Washington Pony team coaches John Bednarski and Art Sandusky, sitting in a Cadillac convertible, are moved along the parade route on Main Street in Washington.

Winning pitcher Reggie Bolden is carried by teammates down the first base line of Pony Field after Washington won the championship game of the Pony League World Series in 1955.

Washington first baseman Joe Hagen takes the throw at first base to get Youngstown’s Gerry Beck out in the second inning of the championship game in the Pony League World Series. Washington captured a 4-0 victory for the title.