Washington Senators (1891-1899)
- Washington Senators (1891-1899)
The Washington Senators were a 19th century baseball team. The team was also known as the Washington Statesmen and the Washington Nationals. The team played at Boundary Field.
The team started out in the American Association as the Washington Statesmen in 1891. The American Association folded after that season and the team continued in the National League as the Washington Senators until the 1899 season. The NL contracted from twelve teams to eight after the 1899 season, and the Senators were one of the eliminated teams.
The Senators did not fare well in their nine years as a franchise, which might have been the reason they were contracted. Washington never had a winning season and compiled a winning percentage of 0.366. Among their more famous players were Deacon McGuire and Hall of Famer Jim O'Rourke.
After a one year hiatus, the Senators returned, but they were no longer the same franchise that played at Boundary Field. In fact the Original Senators were the first of three teams, all called the Washington Senators, and were in the Capital continuously until the third Senators franschise left to become the Texas Rangers. The second had left the city in 1960 becoming the Minnesota Twins and were followed immediately by a new expansion team of the same name, ultimately leaving for Texas in 1971. Baseball returned to the Capital in 2005 when the Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals. Calling the team the Senators was considered initailly, but Nationals won out in the end.
See also Washington Senators (disambiguation).
References and external links
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/WAS/ Team index page] at Baseball Reference
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