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Washington Senators, also referred to as the Washington Pros or Washington Presidents, was a professional football club from Washington, D.C. The team played for one season in the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football League) during the 1921 season. Afterward, it continued to operate as an independent football ...
Ownership changed hands several times during the franchise's stay in Washington and was often plagued by poor decision-making and planning. Owner Elwood Richard Quesada once wondered why he needed to pay players who did not belong in the majors and later agreed to a ten-year lease at D.C. Stadium—a move that would come back to haunt the Senators.
Wagner was born in York, Pennsylvania.His family moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1876, and he later moved to Philadelphia with his brother George in 1893-94. Prior to their ownership of the Senators, Wagner and his brother were associates in the Armour meat-packing firm.
Calvin Robertson Griffith (December 1, 1911 – October 20, 1999), born Calvin Griffith Robertson, was a Canadian-born American Major League Baseball team owner. As president, majority owner and de facto general manager of the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League from 1955 through 1984, he orchestrated the transfer of the Senators after 60 years in Washington, D ...
Washington Senators (1912) played in the short-lived United States Baseball League; Washington Senators (1901–1960), an American League team that became the Minnesota Twins; Washington Senators (1961–1971), an American League team that became the Texas Rangers; Washington Nationals (disambiguation), other baseball teams based in Washington ...
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He led the Senators in base hits (128) and the American League in sacrifice hits (15) in 1961. After playing a reduced role for the 1962 Senators, O'Connell became the player-manager of the York White Roses, Washington's Double-A farm team, in 1963. But on May 22, he was recalled to Washington to serve as the Senators' first-base coach.