Social media groups and other Nats sites

January 10, 2020 (updated January 2025):

A number of other places on the web are devoted to Washington, D.C., baseball, past and present. Here’s are links to some of them:

“The Expansion Washington Senators:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/463338547208950/

Because the pages is now private, you need an invitation from a current member to join.

D.C. Baseball History Yesterday and Today:

and the associated Facebook page, Washington D.C.  Baseball – Yesterday & Today:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/60009109815/

Washington Nationals History (Current Franchise):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1592969114297565/

These last two pages are also now private, thanks to against-the-rules ad posts, so you need a current member’s invitation to get access.

Washington Senators (The Summer of ’69):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1779972678964841/

A Facebook site devoted to Frank “Hondo” Howard:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/293945135091/

Images and blog posts about Nationals and Senators baseball cards

https://curlywcards.blogspot.com/

Mark Zuckerman’s MASN blog, with additional stories by Bobby Blanco, is a go-to web spot for daily coverage of the Nationals, supplementing what The Washington Post has. I’m uncertain what will happen to Zuckerman, who is in his 70s now, after the MASN contract ends.

TalkNats.com and Federalbaseball.com are two of the most active web site devoted to coverage of the current Nationals. TalkNats is a paid site.

Stars and Strikes: A Washington Nationals Newsletter by Michael Natelli is on Substack for $5 a month. You can get a seven-day free trial.

Squibber is the quarterly online newsletter of the Bob Davids Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. Join SABR and the chapter to read interesting articles about D.C. baseball.

Suggestions for additions are welcome. Of course, the team’s official web site, washingtonnationals.com, has many useful features, including all-time leaders lists for the Expos/Nationals franchise., sadly (to me) mixing them together.

(I’m posting the Facebook links, even though I am no fan of Facebook and have tried to fully delete my own Facebook account.) Also, I couldn’t recommend the Nationals’ posts on si.com (indicating some association with the Sports Illustrated name), often picked up by MSN’s news feed. These teaser-headline posts often are regurgitated from daily coverage by Zuckerman, WaPO or site mentioned above. I have yet to find anything new there.

D.C. Baseball History has a strong connection to the Washington Baseball Historical Society. I’m not sure the society is still as active as it once was. Nats News, the quarterly newsletter of the society, is no longer published and its longtime editor, James R. Hartley, died in August 2020. The web site and Facebook page, run by Mark Hornbaker, are still going strong. For several years, Hornbake at his own expense has organized an annual D.C. Baseball History Meeting as well as administering several of the above mentioned web sites. He is undoubtedly today the primary keeper-of-the-flame for Senators’ fans.