In 2002, the Society for American Baseball Research launched a project that so far as produced more than 6,000 essay-length, well-researched and fact-checked, life stories of figures large and small who either played or influenced major league baseball.
Two dozen of these biographies, several about significant figures in the history of both Senators’ franchises, are by me. Shorter versions of those men who played for the Senators are on this website, but you can read the entire biographies at SABR.org.
To my knowledge, book-length biographies have been written about nine significant figures in D.C. baseball:
Walter Johnson, Baseball Big Train by Henry W. Thomas, Johnson’s grandson;
Clark Griffith by Ted Leavengood; Sam Rice by Jeff Carroll,
Bucky Harris by Jack Smiles,
Cecil Travis Of The Washington Senators by Rob Kirkpatrick,
Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball by Mark Armour;
Mickey Vernon The Gentleman First Baseman by Rich Westcott;
Roy Sievers by Paul Scimonelli;
Joe Cambria: International Super Scout of the Washington Senators, also by Paul Scimonelli.
All nine are mentioned in another post on this site, Books About Washington Baseball. If you want shorter (but still thorough) summaries about those nine, I’ve listed their SABR bio links here, too.
You could search the SABR.org website if you know the players’ or scouts’ names, but if you don’t, here are the links:
Washington Senators I (A.L., 1901-1960)
Clark Griffith Walter Johnson Sam Rice
Goose Goslin Heinie Manush Bucky Harris
Joe Cronin Mickey Vernon Joe Judge
Cecil Travis Buddy Lewis Ossie Bluege
Early Wynn Nick Altrock Al Schacht
George Case Ed Delahanty Joe Engel
Camilo Pascual Dutch Leonard George Mogridge
Roy Sievers Roger Wolff Joe Cambria Tom Zachary
Washington Senators (N.L., 1892-1899)
Washington Senators II (A,L,, 1961-1971)
Frank Howard Dick Bosman Del Unser
Homestead Grays in D.C. (1940-1948)
If any of these links don’t work for you, just search the person’s and SABR, and you’ll get there.
If you search for my name (Andrew Sharp) in the SABR search box and click on the result, you’ll find clickable links to the BioProject essays of these Senators figures:
Washington Senators I: Clyde Klutz, Curly Ogden, Earl McNeely, Ellis Clary, Fred Schulte, George Binks, Mickey Haefner, Ray Morgan and Tom Ferrick.
Washington Senators II: Ed Brinkman, Jim King, George Brunet and Dick Phillips.
Each SABR essay has a link to the Baseball Reference and Retrosheet page for the subject (with exception of scout and minor league executive Cambria, who didn’t play in the majors)
Washington baseball history 