10 Facts About Harrisburg Senators

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Harrisburg Senators are a Minor League Baseball team of the Eastern League and the Double-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals.

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Harrisburg Senators has won nine Eastern League titles and is the first team in league history to win four titles in a row: 1987,1993,1996,1997,1998, and 1999.

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The 1993 Harrisburg Senators were recognized as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.

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4.

In 1912, Harrisburg Senators won the first of three Tri-State Association championships in a row.

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In 1924, an incarnation of the Harrisburg Senators joined the newly formed New York–Penn League which was eventually renamed the Eastern League.

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In 1927, the Harrisburg Senators started a five-year campaign with three Eastern league championships, winning titles in 1927,1928, and 1931.

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The Harrisburg Senators' reign ended in 1936, when flood waters from the surrounding Susquehanna River ruined their home ballpark, Island Field.

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8.

The Nashua Pirates relocated to Harrisburg and was rechristened the Senators on December 9,1986.

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9.

In 1999, the Harrisburg Senators played the Norwich Navigators for a shot at their record-setting fourth consecutive Eastern League championship.

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10.

The first radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Harrisburg Senators was Dan Kamal, who did the broadcasts from 1987 until the mid-1990s.

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