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lost 113 games, and the next season the team's owners, trying for a fresh start, changed the team's name to the "Nationals" (and occasionally nicknamed the "Nats"). However, the "Senators" name remained widely used by fans and journalists β€” in fact, the two names were used interchangeably β€” although
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and stepped down as field manager a year later to focus on his duties as team president. The minority interest was owned by William Richardson, who was content to remain in the background. The shares passed to his twin brother George on his death in 1942, and then to George's son William Richardson
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and $ 225,000 in cash (even though Cronin was married to Griffith's niece, Mildred). Despite the return of Harris as manager in 1935–42 and 1950–54, Washington remained mostly a losing ball club for the next 25 years, contending for the pennant only in the talent-thin war years of
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and becomes slugger Joe Hardy, the "long ball hitter the Senators need that he'd sell his soul for" (as spoken by him in a throwaway line near the beginning of the drama). His hitting prowess enables the Senators to win the American League
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of 1.36 and won 25 games for a losing ball club. Over his 21-year Hall of Fame career, Johnson, nicknamed the "Big Train", won 417 games and struck out 3,508 batters, a major-league record that stood for more than 50 years.
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last in the American League." When the current Nationals had their own struggles, the joke was updated once again, this time to "Washington: First in war, first in peace, and last in the National League."
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took over the team presidency. He sold Griffith Stadium to the city of Washington and leased it back, leading to speculation that the team was planning to move, as the
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became player-manager. The change worked, as Washington posted a 99–53 record and swept to the pennant seven games ahead of the Yankees. But the Senators lost the
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columnist Charley Dryden famously joked, "Washington: First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League," a play on the famous line in
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a year earlier. The new Washington club, like the old one, was called the "Senators" (the second of three franchises to hold the name).
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The Washington Senators led by star Walter Johnson and owner Clark Griffith hoist their championship banner at the 1925 opening day.
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over the then-dominant Yankees. One of the songs from the musical, "Heart", is frequently played at baseball games.
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with Johnson posting a career-high 35 victories, as the team once again finished in second place, this time to the
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area baseball fans added to the complexion around the nation's capital for the rest of the 1950s as the new "
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were other notable Senators players whose careers were spent in obscurity due to the team's lack of success.
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where they had been consistent champions since the 1910s. The additional competition in the same League for
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The Senators were also the butt of many nationwide jokes during the 1950s, with the debut and running of a
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on the site of their former northeastern city collegiate football bowl, and replacing the earlier
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to the Giants in five games, and after that, the city would not host another World Series until
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would do later in the decade. After an early flirtation with San Francisco (with a "Triple A"
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For a time, from 1911 to 1933, the Senators were one of the more successful franchises in
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in the 1890s, Griffith jumped to the AL in 1901 and became a successful manager with the
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The club continued to lose, despite the addition of a talented 19-year-old pitcher named
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added another 24 wins to help the Senators finish the season in second place behind the
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with 25 victories, although the Senators still finished the season in seventh place. In
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The Senators began their history as a consistently losing team, at times so inept that
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The (expansion) Washington Senators were mentioned several times in Tom Clancy's book
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Thomas, Henry W.: "Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train", page 319. Bison Books, 1998
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The longtime competitive struggles of the team were fictionalized in the 1954 book
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as "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen". The
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II in 1948. William Richardson II sold his shares to an unrelated party in 1949.
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scores on his home run in the fourth inning of Game 7 of the 1924 World Series.
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level "Triple A" "Orioles" (also sometimes nicknamed the "Birds") of the
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civic and business interests purchasing the perennially cellar-dwelling
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and moving them 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Washington to the
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triumph for the franchise during their 60-year tenure in Washington.
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franchise to Washington, a city that had been abandoned by the older
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that took another bad hop over Lindstrom's head. It was the only
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and whose name became almost synonymous with the ball club:
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and one of the greatest players and pitchers of all time,
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The Senators repeated as American League champions in
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The team was officially named the "Senators" during
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Washington Senators team picture in the early 1930s
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Index

Washington Nationals
Washington Senators (1891–1899)
Washington Senators (1961–1971)


American League
Griffith Stadium
Minnesota
Minnesota Twins
1924
1925
1933
1924
1905
1955
American League Park
Boundary Field
Clark Griffith
Calvin Griffith
Clark Griffith
Bucky Harris
Walter Johnson
Joe Cronin
American League
Minnesota Twins
Washington, D.C.
1901
1901
1904
1905

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