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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 Senators finished in a tie for ninth place in the ten-team American League with a record of 61–100, 47 + 1 ⁄ 2 games behind the World Champion New York Yankees. It was also the team's only season at Griffith Stadium before moving its games to D.C. Stadium for the following season. The expansion team drew 597,287 fans, tenth and last in ...
This category includes players from the second Washington Senators franchise, which was an American League expansion team in 1961. They moved to Arlington, Texas in 1972 and became the Texas Rangers. They are not to be confused with the original Washington Senators franchise, which
As part of the expansion, the American League added two expansion teams for the 1961 season–the Los Angeles Angels and a new Washington Senators team. However, the new Senators were (and still are) considered an expansion team since the Twins retained the old Senators' records and history. The new Senators and Angels began to fill their ...
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.
This is a list of players who have appeared in at least one regular season or postseason game for defunct National Football League franchises. This list contains franchises sorted alphabetically from "Hammond Pros" to "Washington Senators".
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, D.C.
While initially, leading figures in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota, had sought an expansion franchise, in October 1960, the AL permitted the Washington Senators to move in time for next year's season, and gave Washington, D.C., an expansion team. [9] The former Senators changed their name to the Minnesota Twins, and the new expansion team ...