John Welch wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The expansion team, the "New Senators" also had some classy players, from
Chuck Hinton to Claude Osteen, and then Frank Howard and Ken McMullen.
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> This team? Ugh.
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> Still, I'm wearing my Nats hat, and hoping onward.
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> REgards,
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> John Welch
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> To: thewashingtonsenators@yahoogroups.com
> From: Aa3rt@...
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:44:53 +0000
> Subject: [The Washington Senators] Just a little comparison....
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> 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.
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> 1961 61-100
> 1962 60-101
> 1963 56-106
> 1964 62-100
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Art Audley
> La Plata, MD
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> I, too, was heavy-duty Nats fan in '63, and honestly, as far as individual
stats go, this year's team is far better. Hinton's .269 led the '63 Nats.
Osteen's 9 wins was tops. 17 homers led the team. Ralph Houk, manager of the
All-Star team, insulted Washington by picking back-up catcher Don Leppert as the
Nats rep. Leppert didn't play, of course, He was probably the bullpen catcher.
Amazingly, the Nats won 7 straight games in August. I recall Walter Cronkite did
a radio commentary about it. But things were looking up: Gil Hodges took over as
manager and Nats got "Off the Floor in '64" -- what an incredibly modest goal!
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