Table of Content

  • June 9, 2007: Speigner beats two-time Cy Young winner Santana

    June 20, 2018: The 2007 Washington Nationals were plodding along a dozen games under .500 when the team arrived in Minnesota late on June 7 for a weekend series. The Twins were playing .500 ball, clearly a disappointment a year after they had won the division behind Most Valuable Player Justin Morneau, batting champ Joe… Read more

  • The ‘Little Big League’ film’s ties to the Senators and sabermetrics

    June 7, 2018 (updated 2021, 2023): The film “Little Big League” from 1994, directed by Andrew Scheinman, with a screenplay by Gregory Pincus and Adam Scheinman (the director’s brother), has several clear, if coincidental, connections to the Senators. The premise of the movie is that a 12-year-old, played by Luke Edwards,  inherits the Minnesota Twins… Read more

  • A history of the ownership of the expansion Senators

    May 23, 2018: The franchise that became known as the expansion Senators had an 11-year run in the Nation’s Capital from 1961 through 1971 before moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to become the Texas Rangers. The expansion team, created as soon as the original Senators departed for Minnesota, essentially had three sets of owners.… Read more

  • ‘Oil’ Smith, Peckinpaugh and the 1925 World Series

    February 21, 2018: Catcher Earl “Oil” Smith played on five World Series teams in his 12-year career, spanning the 1920s. Although Nats’ shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh often gets blamed for his record eight errors, you could argue that it was Smith who cost the Senators a second world championship in 1925. Washington became the first team… Read more

  • Earl McNeely, World Series hero

    January 16, 2018: A 26-year-old rookie who came up in August, George Earl McNeely drove in the winning run in the 12th inning of the seventh game in the 1924 World Series, the Washington Senator’s only championship. Before his playing days ended, McNeely, known by his middle name, managed  – and owned  – a Pacific… Read more

  • Toby Harrah, the last man standing

    November 29, 2017: Colbert Dale “Toby” Harrah, the last active player who had worn a Senators’ uniform, wasn’t really ready to be a regular major league shortstop in 1971, but with Ed Brinkman traded to Detroit, the job became his. Not surprisingly, he was over-matched, but then so was the entire team after Bob Short… Read more