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The Senators moved and were replaced with an expansion Washington Senators team for 1961. The old Washington Senators became the new Minnesota Twins; the expansion Senators would become the Texas Rangers in 1972, and baseball would not return to the city until 2005, when the former Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals.
The original Senators moved to Minnesota, and the new Senators played at Griffith in 1961. However, in 1962, the Senators moved to the new D.C. Stadium, joining the Redskins, who had moved there a year before. The final baseball game at Griffith Stadium was played on September 21, 1961, before a crowd of only 1,498 fans. [34]
The Washington Senators baseball team was one of the American League's first expansion franchises. The club was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1961 to replace the recently departed Washington Senators who moved to Minnesota as the Minnesota Twins .
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 ...
Currently: National Postal Museum and Union Station National Visitors Center Griffith Stadium prev. Boundary Field, National Park, American League Park (II) Home of: Washington Senators – AA (1891), NL (1892–1899) Washington Senators/Nationals – AL (1904–1960) Washington Senators – AL (1961)
The National League Washington Nationals (2005–): The Montreal Expos, under the ownership of Major League Baseball, were relocated to Washington and sold to a new ownership group. The Nationals adopted similar colors to 1968–1971 Senators adding gold accents to a tilted version of the expansion Senators cursive "W" logo. [5] [6]
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The 1961 Major League Baseball expansion resulted in the formation of two new Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the American League (AL). A new club was started in Washington, D.C., and took the existing name of the Senators, as the previous team of the same name moved to Minneapolis–Saint Paul for the start of the 1961 season and became the Minnesota Twins.