An unusual circumstance…only team card that actually moved to
another city…so on closer viewing the uniform says Senators…The name was old
but the franchise was new playing only 12 season in DC as an 1961 AL expansion
team…The establishment of the team was in response to the original Senator's franchise’s
move to Minnesota…Baseball feared antitrust action from the US legislature…Must of been quite the identity crisis....the
Senators were the lesser team compared to its expansion brother the LA
Angels…First year lost 100 games and was last in attendance…Senators’ woes
continue with three more seasons of 100+ losses…1965 team escapes the 100 loss
mark but remain near the bottom of the standings…futility continues until 1969
when the achives a 86-76 mark, the only winning season in the nation’s
capital…with the Oriole’s dominance the strong still only resulted in 4th
place and 23 games out of first…a significant decline occurred in 1970 with 92
losses + last place finish…more losses in 1971 as owner Bob Short made the move
to the greener pastures of Texas…Total Senator record 740-1032….Texas since
then has made two world series but has loss both…THE RECORDS: HITTING almost all marks list has been
eclipsed many times over…Chuck Hinton triples mark is now second best all
time…Frank Howard’s 48 HR is now third..PITCHING: one record still remains but it is not a good
one…Denny McClain still holds the losses mark with 22...Interesting note: Baseball reference recognizes Darrell Knowles’ 1969 record of 9-3 as the
best win pct, Topps does not, showing Dick Bosman’s 14-5 mark which is 9th
best…Franchise W-L record in Texas and Washington are decidedly both under .500.
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