Washington D.C. Baseball History

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All-Star Games:
1937
All-Star Results - 1937
Game 5
July 7, 1937
Griffith Stadium, Washington Game Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
National 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 13 0
American 0 0 2 3 1 2 0 0 X 8 13 2

Pitchers: (8) vs. GOMEZ, Bridges (4), Harder (7)
Home Runs: Gehrig-AL
Attendance: 31,391

Game Recap
President Franklin Roosevelt threw out the first ball. Lefty Gomez, starting for the American League for the fourth time in five All-Star Games, threw out the second, then hurled three scoreless innings. The National League's Joe Medwick collected four hits in a losing cause, as the American League, led by Lou Gehrig's two-run blast off Dizzy Dean, coasted to an 8-3 win.

Rosters
American League
Earl Averill Beau Bell + Tommy Bridges Harlond Clift + Doc Cramer +
Joe Cronin Bill Dickey Joe DiMaggio Rick Ferrell + Wes Ferrell +
Jimmie Foxx Lou Gehrig Charlie Gehringer Lefty Gomez Hank Greenberg +
Lefty Grove + Mel Harder Wally Moses + Johnny Murphy + Buddy Myer +
Red Rolfe Luke Sewell + Monty Stratton * Gee Walker * Sam West

National League
Dick Bartell Cy Blanton Ripper Collins Dizzy Dean Frank Demaree
Lee Grissom Gabby Hartnett Billy Herman Carl Hubbell Billy Jurges +
Ernie Lombardi + Gus Mancuso Pepper Martin + Joe Medwick Johnny Mize
Gene Moore + Jo-Jo Moore Van Mungo Mel Ott Arky Vaughan Bucky Walters
Paul Waner Burgess Whitehead

* Named to team but replaced due to injury
+ Did not enter game

1956
All-Star Results - 1956
Game 23
July 10, 1956
Griffith Stadium, Washington Game Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
National 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 7 11 0
American 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 11 0

Pitchers:: Brewer (6), Score (8), Wynn (9)
Home Runs: Mays-NL, Williams-AL, Mantle-AL, Musial-NL
Attendance: 28,843

Game Recap
The National League pounded out 11 hits, including home runs by Willie Mays and Stan Musial, to win for the sixth time in seven games. The game's hero was St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Ken Boyer, who finished 3-for-5 and turned in three acrobatic fielding plays.

Rosters
American League
Yogi Berra Ray Boone Tom Brewer Whitey Ford Nellie Fox Al Kaline
George Kell Johnny Kucks+ Harvey Kuenn Sherm Lollar Mickey Mantle
Billy Martin Charlie Maxwell+ Gil McDougald+ Ray Narleski* Billy Pierce
Jim Piersall Vic Power Herb Score Roy Sievers Harry Simpson Frank Sullivan+
Mickey Vernon Ted Williams Jim Wilson Early Wynn

National League
Hank Aaron Johnny Antonelli Ed Bailey Ernie Banks+ Gus Bell Ken Boyer
Roy Campanella Del Crandall* Bob Friend Jim Gilliam+ Ted Kluszewski
Clem Labine+ Brooks Lawrence+ Dale Long Stan Lopata+ Eddie Mathews+
Willie Mays Roy McMillan Stan Musial Joe Nuxhall+ Rip Repulski
Robin Roberts+ Frank Robinson Duke Snider Warren Spahn Johnny Temple

* Named to team but replaced due to injury
+ Did not enter game

1962
All-Star Results - 1962
Game 32
July 10, 1962
D.C. Stadium, Washington Game Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
National 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 8 0
American 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 0

MVP: Maury Wills, LA (NL) [Game 1]
Pitchers: (4), Donovan (7), Pappas (9)
Home Runs: None.
Attendance: 45,480

Game Recap
In the final year of two All-Star Games, the leagues traded wins. The National League grabbed the opener thanks to three hits by Roberto Clemente. The American League evened things up-and won its last Midsummer Classic during the 1960s-on home runs by Pete Runnels, Leon Wagner and Rocky Colavito.

Rosters
American League
Hank Aguirre+ Luis Aparicio Earl Battey Jim Bunning Rocky Colavito
Dick Donovan Jim Gentile Elston Howard+ Jim Landis Mickey Mantle
Roger Maris Bill Monbouquette+ Billy Moran Milt Pappas Camilo Pascual
Bobby Richardson Brooks Robinson Rich Rollins Johnny Romano Norm Siebern
Dave Stenhouse+ Ralph Terry+ Lee Thomas Tom Tresh+ Leon Wagner Hoyt Wilhelm*

National League
Hank Aaron* Felipe Alou Richie Ashburn+ Ernie Banks Frank Bolling Ken Boyer
Johnny Callison Orlando Cepeda Roberto Clemente Del Crandall Jim Davenport
Tommy Davis Don Drysdale Turk Farrell+ Bob Gibson+ Dick Groat Sandy Koufax+
Juan Marichal Willie Mays Bill Mazeroski Stan Musial Bob Purkey
Johnny Roseboro+ Bob Shaw Warren Spahn+ Maury Wills

* Named to team but replaced due to injury
+ Did not enter game

1969
All-Star Results - 1969
Game 40
July 23, 1969
R. F. K. Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. Game Final

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
National 1 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 11 0
American 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 3 6 2

MVP: Willie McCovey, SF (NL)
Pitchers: P. Niekro (9) vs STOTTLEMYRE, Odom (3), Knowles (3), McLain (4), McNally (5), McDowell (7), Culp (9)
Home Runs: Bench-NL, Howard-AL, McCovey-NL (2), Freehan-AL
Attendance: 45,259

Game Recap
Detroit's Denny McLain, the American League's starting pitcher, arrived too late to start the game. By the time he entered the contest in the fourth inning, the National League had accumulated eight runs, including two-run blasts by Johnny Bench and Willie McCovey.

Rosters
American League
Mike Andrews Sal Bando Paul Blair Rod Carew Ray Culp Bill Freehan
Jim Fregosi Mike Hegan* Frank Howard Reggie Jackson Davey Johnson*
Harmon Killebrew Darold Knowles Mickey Lolich+ Carlos May Sam McDowell
Denny McLain Dave McNally Don Mincher Blue Moon Odom Tony Oliva*
Rico Petrocelli Boog Powell Brooks Robinson Frank Robinson
Ellie Rodriguez+ Johnny Roseboro Reggie Smith Mel Stottlemyre
Roy White Carl Yastrzemski

National League
Hank Aaron Matty Alou Ernie Banks Glenn Beckert Johnny Bench
Chris Cannizzaro+ Steve Carlton Roberto Clemente Larry Dierker Bob Gibson
Randy Hundley Grant Jackson+ Cleon Jones Don Kessinger Jerry Koosman
Juan Marichal+ Lee May Willie Mays Willie McCovey Denis Menke
Felix Millan Phil Niekro Tony Perez Pete Rose Ron Santo Tom Seaver+
Bill Singer Rusty Staub+

* Named to team but replaced due to injury
+ Did not enter game

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World Series:

1924 (W)
1924 - Washington Senators (4) vs. New York Giants (3)
Game Date Winning Team Losing Team
1 Oct. 4 New York (Nehf) *4 WASH. (Johnson) 3
2 Oct. 5 WASH. (Zachary) 4 New York (Bentley) 3
3 Oct. 6 NEW YORK (McQuillan) 6 Washington (Marberry) 4
4 Oct. 7 Washington (Mogridge) 7 NEW YORK (Barnes) 4
5 Oct. 8 NEW YORK (Bentley) 6 Washington (Johnson) 2
6 Oct. 9 WASH. (Zachary) 2 New York (Nehf) 1
7 Oct. 10 WASH. (Johnson) *4 New York (Bentley) 3
*12 innings

Managers: Bucky Harris, Senators; John McGraw, Giants

Notes: John McGraw made his ninth and final World Series appearance. ... Walter Johnson, after pitching his first 20-victory season (23) since 1919, appeared in his first World Series at the age of 36.

1924 World Series
The story of the World Series was Walter Johnson, finally getting a chance to pitch in October after 18 seasons with the traditionally-lowly Senators. Johnson started the opener against Art Nehf, and after 11 innings both pitchers were still in the game, the score tied at two apiece. But the Giants scored two in the 12th against a tired Johnson, and the Senators could answer with only one run off Nehf in the bottom of the inning.

Game 2 saw more late-inning heroics, as the Giants scored twice in the ninth to tie the game 3-3, only to see Senators shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh double home Joe Judge with the winning run in the bottom of the inning. Both clubs used four pitchers in Game 4, the Giants winning 6-4 when reliever Mule Watson escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth. Washington evened the Series the next day, 7-4, behind George Mogridge's solid pitching and Goose Goslin's three-run homer. Walter Johnson took the hill for Game 5, but allowed 13 hits in eight innings as the Giants won handily, 6-2.

Facing elimination, the Senators came back to take Game 6, 2-1. Tom Zachary pitched a seven-hitter for Washington, and player-manager Bucky Harris accounted for both runs with a two-run single in the fifth.

In Game 7 the Senators fell behind 3-1, but caught a break in the eighth when Harris' apparently routine ground ball hit a pebble and took a bad hop over Giants third baseman Fred Lindstrom. Two runners scored on the play, tying the contest at three. Walter Johnson came in to pitch the ninth, and the score was still 3-3 when Washington came up in the 12th. With the bases loaded and nobody out, Earl McNeely shot another grounder at Lindstrom, and again the ball took a bad hop, scoring Muddy Ruel with the Series-ending run.

1925 (L)
1925 - Pittsburgh Pirates (4) vs. Washington Senators (3)
Game Date Winning Team Losing Team
1 Oct. 7 Washington (Johnson) 4 PITTSBURGH (Meadows) 1
2 Oct. 8 PITTSBURGH (Aldridge) 3 Washington (Coveleski) 2
3 Oct. 10 WASHINGTON (Ferguson) 4 Pittsburgh (Kremer) 3
4 Oct. 11 WASHINGTON (Johnson) 4 Pittsburgh (Yde) 0
5 Oct. 12 Pittsburgh (Aldridge) 6 WASHINGTON (Coveleski) 3
6 Oct. 13 PITTSBURGH (Kremer) 3 Washington (Ferguson) 2
7 Oct. 15 PITTSBURGH (Kremer) 9 Washington (Johnson) 7
(Night Games: All)

Managers: Bill McKechnie, Pirates; Bucky Harris, Senators

Notes: For the first time in a seven-game Series, a team came back to win the championship after being down three games to one.

1925 World Series
Back in the World Series, Walter Johnson dominated the Pirates in Game 1, striking out 10 and beating them 4-1 with a five-hitter.

Game 2 was tied at one apiece until the bottom of the eighth, when Pirates center fielder Kiki Cuyler hit a two-run homer into the right-field bleachers. The Senators loaded the bases with nobody out in the ninth, but could score just one run and lost, 3-2. In Washington for Game 3, the clubs played another tight game. The Senators finished on top, 4-3, on the strength of a two-run seventh.

Johnson started Game 4, and topped his performance in the opener with a six-hit shutout. All of Washington's runs came in the fourth, Goose Goslin accounting for three runs with a long homer into the left-field bleachers. Now the Senators led the Series three games to one, and needed just one more victory for a second straight Championship.

Game 5 would not be that victory, however, as the Pirates piled up 13 hits against four Senator pitchers on their way to a 6-3 decision. Game 6, back in Pittsburgh, was closer, but again the Pirates finished on top, this time 3-2, thereby forcing a seventh game.

Walter Johnson, already twice a winner, didn't have his best stuff in Game 7. Neither did Pirates pitchers Vic Aldridge and Johnny Morrison, however, and after four innings the Senators enjoyed a 6-3 advantage. Johnson tired in the late innings but manager Bucky Harris refused to remove his ace, and the Pirates scored twice in the seventh and thrice in the eighth, clinching the Series with a 9-7 victory. The "goat" of the Series was Washington shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, who was named American League MVP for the regular season but committed eight errors in Series play, including two in Game 7 that resulted in four unearned runs.

1933 (L)
1933 - New York Giants (4) vs. Washington Senators (1)
Game Date Winning Team Losing Team
1 Oct. 3 NEW YORK (Hubbell) 4 Washington (Stewart) 2
2 Oct. 4 NEW YORK (Schumacher) 6 Washington (Crowder) 1
3 Oct. 5 WASH. (Whitehill) 4 New York (Fitzsimmons) 0
4 Oct. 6 New York (Hubbell) *2 WASH. (Weaver) 1
5 Oct. 7 New York (Luque) **4 WASH. (Russell) 3
*11 innings **10 innings

Managers: Bill Terry, Giants; Joe Cronin, Senators

Notes: Carl Hubbell pitched 20 innings, picking up two wins and allowing no earned runs. ... Mel Ott won the fifth and final game with a home run in the top of the 10th inning to break a 3-3 tie.

1933 World Series
The Senators were playing in their first World Series since 1925, while the Giants were playing in their first since 1924 (when they lost to the Senators in seven games). Both clubs, moreover, were guided by player-managers: shortstop Joe Cronin for Washington, first baseman Bill Terry for New York.

Carl Hubbell started Game 1 for New York, in New York, and showed the form that made him the best pitcher in the National League. Hubbell, nicknamed "The Meal Ticket," limited the Senators to five hits and two unearned runs. Giants right fielder Mel Ott provided the offense with four hits, including a two-run homer in the first inning, and New York captured a 4-2 decision.

"Prince" Hal Schumacher topped Alvin Crowder in Game 2, holding the American Leaguers to five hits and 1 run. The Giants hitters did all their scoring in just one inning, posting a "6" on the scoreboard in the sixth to make the final score 6-1.

The clubs didn't take time off for travel, so the World Series resumed the next day in Washington, and the Senators got back in the Series with a 4-0 victory, Earl Whitehill going the distance for a six-hit shutout. Game 4 matched Hubbell against Monte Weaver, and both were excellent. After 10 innings, Hubbell and Weaver were both still in the game, with the score tied at one apiece. The Giants finally broke through for a run in the top of the 11th, thanks to a leadoff bunt single from Travis Jackson, Gus Mancuso's sacrifice bunt and Blondy Ryan's RBI single. In the bottom of the 11th, Hubbell survived a one-out, bases-loaded jam to complete the Giants' 2-1 triumph.

In Game 5, the Giants owned a 3-0 lead after five-and-a-half innings, but then Senators center fielder Fred Schulte tied things up with one swing of the bat, a three-run homer into the left-field pavilion. It was still 3-3 after nine innings, and the clubs went to extras. But with two outs in the top of the 10th, Mel Ott drove a pitch into the center-field bleachers to give the Giants a 2-1 edge. In the bottom of the inning, New York reliever Dolf Luque, with two Senators on base, struck out Joe Kuhel on three pitches to clinch the Series.

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Senators in the Hall of Fame

Washington Senators in the National Baseball Hall of Fame
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Players
Name Years in Washington Year Inducted
Stan Coveleski 1925-27 1969
Joe Cronin 1928-34 1956
Ed Delahanty 1902-03 1945
Rick Ferrell 1937-41; 44-45; 47 1984
Lefty Gomez 1943 1972
Goose Goslin** 1921-30; 33; 38 1968
Clark Griffith 1912-14 1946
Bucky Harris 1919-28 1975
Walter Johnson** 1907-27 1936
Harmon Killebrew 1954-60 1984
Heinie Manush 1930-35 1964
Sam Rice** 1915-33 1963
Al Simmons 1937-38 1953
George Sisler 1928 1939
Tris Speaker 1927 1937
Early Wynn 1939; 41-44; 46-48 1972

Managers
Name Years in Washington Year Inducted
Joe Cronin 1933-34 1956
Clark Griffith 1912-20 1946
Bucky Harris** 1924-42; 50-54 1975
Walter Johnson 1929-32 1936
Ted Williams 1969-71 1966

Executives
Name Years in Washington Year Inducted
Clark Griffith 1920-55 1946

Ford C. Frick Award
Name Year Inducted
Arch McDonald 1999
Bob Wolff 1995
** -- Inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Washington Senator.