what year did the washington nationals start playing baseball?
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History of the Washington Nationals. 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.
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Atlanta Braves, the oldest continually operating team in Major League Baseball; enfranchised in 1871 and labeled "Red Stockings" (the club had four key players and the uniform design from the 1869-70 Cincinnati Red Stockings), sometimes "Red Caps," in National Association; joined National League as charter member (1876 ...
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Washington, D.C. The George Washington Colonials baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of George Washington University in Washington, DC, United States. The team is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I.
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The Washington franchise has been under scrutiny for decades because of the team nickname, along with the meaning and interpretation of the word. The franchise had the team name since 1933, one year after the organization was formed as the Boston Braves in 1932.
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After studying the 5,989 position players who began their careers between 1902 and 1993 and who played 33,272 years of major league baseball, three demographers have come up with an answer: On average, a rookie can expect to play major league baseball for 5.6 years.
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2019 NLCS (4–0): Washington Nationals defeated St. Louis Cardinals.
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The team began play as the "Braves" in Boston in 1932, changing its name to the "Redskins" the following year. In 1937, the franchise relocated to Washington, D.C., where they have been based since.
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The George Washington Colonials baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of George Washington University in Washington, DC, United States. The team is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I.
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One of the NFL's oldest and most-storied franchises, the Washington Redskins were founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves. The team changed its name to the Redskins in 1933, and in 1937, the team relocated to Washington, D.C. and immediately won the first of its five World Championships.
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The Washington Nationals used to be the Montreal Expos. The Montreal Expos left Canada for Washington, D.C. in 2005, but the team still has a "small cohort" of loyal Expos fans, the Washington Post reported. The cohort has good reason to be excited: This is the club's first World Series.
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The NL team may use its own pitcher as a DH but until now all the NL teams used a player with a good hitting history instead of the pitcher in interleague and World Series games. ... MLB began doing that during the 1984 World Series; for regular season play, that's how it's been since interleague play began in 1997.
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Since 1912, it has been the home for the Boston Red Sox, the city's American League baseball team, and since 1953, its only Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. While the stadium was built in 1912, it was rebuilt in 1934.
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The Giants were founded in 1925 by original owner Tim Mara with an investment of $500. Legally named "New York Football Giants" (which they still are to this day) to distinguish themselves from the baseball team of the same name, they became one of the first teams in the then five-year-old National Football League.
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The World Series was "born" in 1903, but postseason play began as early as the 1884 season. Major League Baseball does not recognize those games as an official part of World Series history, but they did set the foundation for "The Fall Classic." A match-up that remained constant from its start in 1903 through 1968.
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The Auburn Doubledays are a Minor League Baseball team of the New York–Penn League (NYPL) and the Class A Short Season affiliate of the Washington Nationals. They are located in Auburn, New York, and play their home games at Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park, which opened in 1995 and seats 2,800 people.
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Baseball is a sport formerly contested at the Summer Olympic Games. It was originally played as a demonstration sport in seven Olympics—1912, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984, and 1988— more than for any other sport in Olympic history. ... In 1992, the first official Olympic baseball tournament was won by the Cuban team.