Going Deep with The Nats

The Washington Senators had a rich history of baseball in the nation’s capital for over 70 years.

The Bregman family lived in Washington D.C. before the Washington Senators were founded in 1901. His great-grandfather, Bo Bregman, was a boxing promoter and later became part of the ownership group with George Preston Marshall that moved the Boston Redskins to Washington, D.C. to become the Washington Redskins. Bo’s son, Stan Bregman, was chief legal counsel for the Washington Senators. He was also part of the recruitment to get Ted Williams to manage the Washington Senators in the late-1960s and successfully did that. Also in the 1960s, Stan’s son, Sam, was born. He would attend Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and later play baseball at University of New Mexico. His son, Alex, would take the family’s love of baseball to the next level.

Today marks exactly five years from the day the Washington Nationals hoisted the World Series championship trophy. Since then, the Nats have started their offseasons on the same day as their regular season ended. Hopefully, the future has meaningful Octobers for the Nats.

Not much is going on in Natstown right now. They had already extended all of their coaches and left little to do publicly on their MLB calendar. All the baseball talk right now is about the World Series, managerial changes with other teams, and free agent speculation. In Washington, D.C., the talk is mostly about the first place Washington Commanders football team, and the beginning of the NBA and NHL seasons.

As we move to Game 3 of the World Series, the Yankees and Dodgers feature the two biggest markets in baseball. There are smaller markets that have been identified as spots for Major League Baseball (MLB) expansion. The league expanded to 30 teams in 1998 with the addition of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and that came four years after MLB established an expansion committee. As the sport continues to grow in popularity, there is ongoing speculation about potential future expansion cities. While no definitive decisions have been made, several cities have been mentioned as strong candidates for new MLB franchises. Some think a 32-team league will happen, and others hope they go to 34 teams.