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Jim Manning moved with the Kansas City club to manage the first Senators team. The Senators began their history as a consistently losing team, at times so inept that San Francisco Chronicle columnist Charley Dryden famously joked, "Washington: First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League," [5] a play on the famous line in Henry ...
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.
In the first game in franchise history, the "Presidential Opener" then held every year in Washington, the Senators were defeated by the Chicago White Sox, 4–3, on Monday, April 10, 1961. With leadoff man Coot Veal getting its first-ever hit (an infield single ) in the first inning , Washington jumped out to a quick 2–0 advantage and led 3 ...
Jacob Earl Wagner (November 6, 1861 – November 11, 1943) was a businessman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He is primarily known as the owner of various baseball teams during the late 19th century, most notably the original Washington Senators.
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 ...
His hiring was a departure for the Senators' management and ownership. He was the first manager outside the Washington team's "family" hired during Clark Griffith's presidency, which began in 1920. Through 1954, Griffith had appointed eight different men to manage his club (with one, Harris, serving three different terms), and all had been ...
Pages in category "Washington Senators (1901–1960) owners" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.
Benjamin Minor (baseball) Benjamin S. Minor (1864/1865-1946) was the principal owner and president of the Washington Senators from 1912 to 1919. [1]Born in Comorn, Virginia; Minor graduated from the University of Virginia and became a prominent attorney in the Washington area. [1]