| 翻訳と辞書 |
| History of the Washington Senators (1901-1960) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
History of the Washington Senators (1901–60)
The Washington Senators baseball team was one of the American League's eight charter franchises. The club was founded in Washington, D.C. in as the Washington Senators. In 1905 the team changed its official name to the Washington Nationals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Minnesota Twins Team History & Encyclopedia )〕 The name "Nationals" would appear on the uniforms for only two seasons, and would then be replaced with the "W" logo for the next 52 years. However, the names "Senators", "Nationals" and shorter "Nats" would be used interchangeably by fans and media for the next sixty years; in 2005, the latter two names were revived for the current National League franchise that had previously played in Montreal. For a time, from 1911 to 1933, the Senators were one of the more successful franchises in Major League Baseball. The team's rosters included Hall of Fame members Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Joe Cronin, Bucky Harris, Heinie Manush and one of the greatest players and pitchers of all time, Walter Johnson. But the Senators are remembered more for their many years of mediocrity and futility, including six last-place finishes in the 1940s and 1950s. Joe Judge, Cecil Travis, Buddy Myer, Roy Sievers and Eddie Yost were other notable Senators players whose careers were spent in obscurity due to the team's lack of success.
==A losing start for a charter franchise==
When the American League declared itself a major league in , the new league moved the previous minor league circuit Western League's Kansas City franchise to Washington, a city that had been abandoned by the older National League a year earlier. The new Washington club, like the old one, would be called the "Senators" (second of three franchises to hold the name).
The Senators began their history as a consistently losing team, at times so inept that ''San Francisco Chronicle'' columnist Charley Dryden famously joked: "Washington: First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League." (A play on the famous quotation and obituary about first President George Washington upon his 1799 death as "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen"). The 1904 Senators lost 113 games, and the next season the team's owners, trying for a fresh start, changed the team's name to the "Nationals" (and occasionally nicknamed the "Nats"). The "Senators" name however remained widely used by fans and journalists—in fact, the two names were used interchangeably—although "Nats" remained the team's nickname. The Senators name was officially restored in 1956.〔http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/al/wasdc/nats.html〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「History of the Washington Senators (1901–60)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|