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The Washington Nationals are a Major League Baseball team formed in 1969 as the Montreal Expos. In 2005, the Expos moved to Washington, D.C., and were renamed the Nationals. The franchise won the National League pennant in 2019, and has won its division five times. They won the World Series in 2019 against the Astros in game 7.
Multiple short-lived baseball franchises, including two named the Nationals, played in Washington with the National Association in the 1870s. [note 1] The first Washington Nationals team in a major league played in the American Association in 1884. [12]
The National League Washington Nationals (2005–): The Montreal Expos, under the ownership of Major League Baseball, were relocated to Washington and sold to a new ownership group. The Nationals adopted similar colors to 1968–1971 Senators adding gold accents to a tilted version of the expansion Senators cursive "W" logo.
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"). However, the "Senators" name remained widely used by fans and journalists — in fact, the two names were used interchangeably [ 6 ] — although "Nats" remained ...
Several other baseball clubs based in Washington, D.C., have also used the historic name Nationals. The team played their home games at the Nationals Grounds and the Olympics Grounds . They joined the National Association in 1872, playing 11 games that year, and 39 more games in 1873, [ 1 ] although some sources recognize the 1873 team as a ...
By 1903, peace was restored with agreements between the two rival baseball loops on player contract and represented member cities/teams, and the beginnings of a national championship series titled the World Series. In 1905, the team changed its official name to the Washington Nationals. [1]
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The Brooklyn Atlantics, Indianapolis Hoosiers, Toledo Blue Stockings, and Washington Nationals joined the AA. The Altoona Mountain Citys folded early-season and were replaced by the Kansas City Cowboys. The Washington Nationals from the AA folded mid-season and were replaced by the Richmond Virginians from Minor League Baseball.