21st Century Senators
Friday, December 24th, 2010 Posted in Hartford Dark Blues, Hartford Senators | Comments OffThough professional baseball is gone from Hartford, the Senator name lived on much later in amateur circles courtesy of the Vintage Base Ball Federation. The VBBF pitted clubs against one another in a celebration of baseball as it used to ...
The 1931 Hartford Senators
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Hartford Senators, Memorable Seasons | Comments OffThe Senators were crowned league champions 5 times throughout team history, though no team ever saw more success than their final Eastern League Championship team of 1931. Considered to be among the elite minor league seasons of all-time by baseball ...
Lou Gehrig: Back to Hartford and the Bigs
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Famous Senators, Hartford Senators | Comments OffHartford would be Lou Gehrig's first taste of professional baseball, however, as any fan moderately well-versed in Major League Baseball history should know, it was far from his last. Playing in more consecutive games than any player of his time, ...
Lou Gehrig: Baseball Before New York
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Famous Senators, Hartford Senators | Comments OffThough perhaps he was not "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" merely for his days in Hartford, Lou Gehrig's time spent manning first base for the Senators was arguably the most storied in franchise history. Prior to ...
Jim Thorpe: A Senator Among Many Things
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Famous Senators, Hartford Senators | Comments OffTruly incomparable among athletes of his time, Jim Thorpe enjoyed professional careers as in basketball, football and baseball, in addition to gold medal performances at the 1912 Olympic Games. Even some Senators followers might not know, however, that arguably the ...
A Brief History of Baseball in Hartford
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Hartford Bees, Hartford Dark Blues, Hartford Senators | Comments OffThe Senators may be the longest tenured nine-squad to call Hartford home, but don't mistake the Sens as the only bunch of ball players to ever lace it up in Connecticut's capital. Hartford briefly boasted its own National League squad ...