Hello, all,



I feel the same way, and I was about 15 in 1963...meaning I had suffered through
some pretty dismal seasons around 1955 and 1956, then danced as the 1960
Senators played good baseball, then felt crushed when our team (note reference
to David Gough's book) was stolen.



This Nats team feels worse than anything I remember as a kid. At least we had
Eddie Yost, Pete Runnels, Mickey Vernon, Roy Sievers, and several other good
players. In 1959 and 1960 we could be amazed by Camilo Pascual.



The expansion team, the "New Senators" also had some classy players, from Chuck
Hinton to Claude Osteen, and then Frank Howard and Ken McMullen.



This team? Ugh.



Still, I'm wearing my Nats hat, and hoping onward.



REgards,



John Welch



To: thewashingtonsenators@yahoogroups.com
From: Aa3rt@...
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:44:53 +0000
Subject: [The Washington Senators] Just a little comparison....





For those of us old enough to remember, the expansion Senators got off to a
pretty horrific start losing 100 or more games their first 4 seasons.

1961 61-100
1962 60-101
1963 56-106
1964 62-100

Just for the heck of it, I checked the 1963 Senators record on July 20th-they
were 34-60 and would go 22-46 for the remainder of the 1963 season.

The current Nationals are 26-66 and are going to have to step it up a bit if
that don't want to equal or exceed the 1963 Senators record for futility.

Don't get me wrong-I'm thrilled that baseball is back in Washington but the
youthful enthusiasm I possessed as a 10 year old in 1963 disappeared somewhere
through the years and it's getting tough to suffer with the current major league
offering.

Art Audley
La Plata, MD









_________________________________________________________________
Bing™ brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. Try it now.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=restaurants&form=MLOGEN&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TXT_MLOGE\
N_Local_Local_Restaurants_1x1

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]