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  • May 26, 1930: Goslin, Judge hit back-to-back homers twice in same game

    Leon “Goose” Goslin and Joe Judge, who helped Washington win the World Series in 1924 and an American League pennant in ’25, became the first two players under today’s rules to hit back-to-back homers twice in the same game. It happened on the afternoon of May 26, 1930, at Yankee Stadium. The Senators were looking… Read more

  • Former Nats founded the players alumni association

    Three former expansion Senators – Chuck Hinton, Jim Hannan and Fred Valentine – helped found the  Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association in February 1982, recruiting more than a dozen other former players. The organization today has more than 8,600 members. Brooks Robinson is the group’s current president and several other Hall of Famers serve… Read more

  • Gabby Street’s Monumental catch

    Charles Everd “Gabby” Street played in the majors for seven seasons as a catcher with the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves, New York Highlanders, St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Senators, where he spent four years as Walter Johnson’s personal catcher. In the midst of his playing career, he survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and… Read more

  • Ed Roebuck: Fungo hitter extraordinaire

    Relief pitcher Ed Roebuck, who spent two months of the 1963 season and another one in ’64 with the Senators, was one of the game’s greatest fungo hitters. As a child, according to Paul Hirsch’s SABR bio essay, Roebuck liked to pass time hitting stones with a stick. The pitcher became so good at making… Read more

  • Trea Turner: the ‘most overlooked superstar’

    (December 2022 update: Like Harper before him, Trea Turner likely will finish his career as a Phillie. Worse things could happen, I suppose, but as a Nationals fan, it’s hard to think of any.) One of the nation’s best baseball writers, Tyler Kepner of the New York Times, has a knack for shedding new light… Read more

  • Did Goslin and Myer really lead the A.L. in batting?

    Before Juan Soto finished with the National League’s highest batting average in 2020, playing in 47 of Washington’s 60 games, four players with the original Washington Senators had won American League batting titles. One of them – Mickey Vernon — did it twice: in 1946 and 1953. Unlike the other three winners, his batting titles,… Read more