Washington Nationals Memorabilia

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The roots of the Washington Nationals baseball team go back to 1871 and the founding of the Washington Olympics, which took its name from its home field, the Olympic Grounds. Throughout the remainder of the 19th century, the team was known...
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The roots of the Washington Nationals baseball team go back to 1871 and the founding of the Washington Olympics, which took its name from its home field, the Olympic Grounds. Throughout the remainder of the 19th century, the team was known variously as the Washington Nationals, the Blue Legs (a reference to the color of players' socks), and the Statesmen before settling on the Washington Senators in 1891. Although there was no professional baseball in the nation's capital in 1900, players wearing Senators uniforms would play on no less than three different fields in Washington, D.C. during the 20th century. In 1960, the Senators would become the Minnesota Twins, but they were immediately replaced by another group of players who would call themselves Senators through 1971, when the team left town yet again to become the Texas Rangers. In 2005, in a small bit of irony, one of the former owners of the Texas Rangers, President George W. Bush, threw out the first pitch when the current Washington Nationals took the field at RFK Stadium, which they shared with the Washington Redskins football team until 2008, when Nationals Park was ready for the team. Throughout their histories, the Senators and Nationals were generally losing teams, the exception being the 1924 World Series victory by the Senators over the New York Giants, which played its fourth fall pageant in a row that year. For long-suffering baseball fans in Washington, D.C., that makes the trip by the Washington Nationals to the 2019 World Series against the Houston Astros all the sweeter. Members of the Washington Senators who have made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, include Walter Johnson, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1936, the institution's first year. Fellow inductees that year were Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees, Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants, Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers. Other inductees include...
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