D.C. Baseball History
Apr 07
April 7, 1969 Ted Williams‘ debut as the new Senators manager is spoiled as the Yankees defeat Washington on Opening Day by a score of 8-4. Mel Stottlemeyer gets the win for the Yankees, Camilio Pascual is charged with the loss for the Senators. Frank Howard strokes a 2 run homer. The Senators outhit the …
Apr 07
Fifty-Three years ago today, the baseball season began anew in Washington, as the Senators hosted the New York Yankees. A sports backwater since the 1940’s, when Slingin’ Sammy Baugh led the Redskins to championships and the 1945 Senators came up a hair short in a tight pennant race, the nation’s capital claimed the spotlight on …
Apr 06
April 6 Senators Birthdays Charles Melton Luskey B Apr. 6, 1876 D Dec. 20, 1962 Washington, DC native Charlie Luskey joined the ranks of Senators Short Timers in September of 1901. Arriving on the major league scene as a 25 year old rookie as the Senators wound down their inaugural season, Luskey would make it …
Apr 06
April 6, 2005 In Philadelphia at Citizens Park the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3. The Nats victory was the first by a Washington major league baseball team in thirty three and a half years. The Nationals Brad Wilkerson went 4 for 4 and hit for the cycle. The cycle was Wilkerson’s second of …
Apr 05
April 5 1971 Dick Bosman pitches a six-hit shutout as the Washington Senators beat the Oakland Athletics, 8 – 0. This will turn out to be the last Opening Day game to be played in Washington, D.C. After the season, Senators owner Bob Short will move the franchise to the Lone Star State to resume …
Apr 04
April 4 1948 Prior to an exhibition game in Orlando between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Senators, A’s owner-manager Connie Mack, age 85, and Senators’s owner Clark Griffith, age 78, stage a footrace. After entering the field in an ambulance, Mack and Griffith race from 3rd base to home plate and finish in a tie. …
Apr 03
April 3 1938 Goose Goslin returns to the Washington Senators for his third, and final, stint. Goslin, who played for the Senators from 1920 through 1930 and again in 1933, has the distinction of making it to the World Series with all 3 of Washington’s pennant winning teams (1924, 1925 & 1933) and would also …
Apr 02
December 1, 1932 Washington D.C.- Around 600 Washington baseball fans from all over the area showed up at the Shoreham Hotel, for a testimonial dinner that was given to honor Walter Johnson, the recently fired Senators’ manager. Besides the hundreds of people in the banquet room the Big Train also received telegrams from President Hoover …
Apr 02
April 2 1972 Former Senators and current Mets manager Gil Hodges dies of a heart attack at West Palm Beach, Florida, two days shy of his 48th birthday. Senators Birthdays Joseph Bernard Stanley B Apr. 2, 1881 D Sep. 13, 1967 Washington native Joe Stanley made a very brief appearance with the National League Washington …
Apr 01
April 1 Senators Birthdays Three more birthday boys join the Senators ranks this April 1st. Once again, we find an example of a player who spent a short time with the Senators during a relatively long major league career and another who would add a footnote to his statistics by finishing out his major league …
