From the history department: the last time the Nationals won a World Series title, the Houston Astros didn't even exist. But like this years Nats, the Senators' 1924 season got off to a very rocky start.
, a history of Washington baseball, from which some of this story is based, and head of the Sports Business Practice at the Dewey Square Group, a public affairs firm in Washington.
“Washington got hot quicker than almost any club I ever saw,” Babe Ruth later wrote in his autobiography. “There is more real genuine interest in him than there is in a presidential election,” Rogers wrote in the late September piece, about five weeks before President Calvin Coolidge won re-election in a landslide. “He is not sick, yet there are lots and lots of people in all parts of our country that never saw him or hope to see him, that are actually praying for fate to smile on this Big Old Country Boy.
Indeed, after the Nationals swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series, Bernie Miklasz, a sports talk show host in St. Louis and contributor to The Athletic St. Louis, graciously said on his show: “If the Cardinals had to go down, have them go down to Washington, which has not experienced a World Series in our lifetime.”
During the road trip, fans in Washington congregated around office buildings and grocery stores, where the scores were posted every half-inning on scoreboards.wrote in an editorial after the Senators inched close to the pennant with a late-season victory in Boston. “All over the major league circuits the fans have been cheering for the Senators.
Washington had gone 14-6 in that season-ending road trip—the same record the Nats had in their final 20 games this year.; the Senators faced similar odds against the New York Giants in the ’24 World Series. The Giants, like the Astros team, had won the World Series two seasons earlier and had a formidable lineup and pitching staff. The Giants hit a league-best .
Most agreed that if Washington were to have a shot at pulling off an upset, it would need a strong performance from ace Walter Johnson, who was the obvious choice for the Game 1 start at Griffith Stadium in Washington. President Coolidge threw out the first pitch, but it was umpire Tom Connolly who showed athleticism by leaping for the errant throw from the president to make a one-handed catch.
Washington won game six to even up the series, setting up a decisive seventh game at Griffith Stadium. Trailing 3-1, the Senators rallied to tie the score in the eighth inning when Bucky Harris hit a ground ball to third base that took a bad bounce over the third baseman’s head, scoring two runs.
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