Logo of the Washington Senators baseball team, an old defunct club that played in the American League from 1961 to 1971, when they relocated to Texas and became the Texas Rangers. The Senators had existed as an AL club from 1955 until 1960, but moved to Minnesota following the ’60 season and became the Twins. An uproar among Washington politicians over that move caused baseball officials to quickly put an expansion team back in the nation’s capital, and another new version of the Senators was born. The records of the old team were transferred with the Twins’ franchise. These Senators were a losing franchise for their entire existence, with power-hitting Frank Howard being the face of the team. The unofficial team “motto” was the joke: “Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League.”