The Washington Nationals are about ... MLB awarded the city an expansion franchise in 1961, also called the Senators, but it moved after a decade and became the Texas Rangers.

winning the AL pennant in 1965 (which the Twins had the audacity to clinch in Washington). Meanwhile, the “new” Senators, stocked with rejects from an expansion draft, continued the local ...

The expansion Senators were a punch line when I grew up in Central Massachusetts in the 1960s. The old adage about the original Senators — Washington, first in war, first in peace, last in the ...

He spent only one season of his 20-year career in D.C., but Miñoso was the first expansion Senators player voted into the Hall of Fame. In the spring of 1963, Washington purchased Miñoso’s ...