That would have to be Hall of Famer Walter Johnson who pitched with the Senators between 1907-1927. He won 417 career games (second all time in MLB), struckout 3,508 batters (a career MLB record that lasted for 55 seasons), threw 110 shutouts (an MLB record that will not be broken in our lifetime), and pitched 531 complete games (4th all time). One little known fact about Johnson - in the 1925 season, he batted .433 going 42 for 97 with 2 HRs, 20 RBIs, and a .577 slugging average. He had a lifetime batting average of .235.
Whitey Herzog is famous for being an American baseball player and most notably as a baseball manager. He started his baseball career in 1956 with the Washington Senators.
The MLB pitcher with the most wins for one team is Hall of Famer Walter Johnson who won 417 games for the Washington Senators between 1907-1927.
Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants (1933, 1936), Hal Newhouser of the Detroit Tigers (1944, 1945), and Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators (1913, 1924) each won 2 league MVP awards, the most by any pitcher.
The most likely reason is that the Senators played in the American League, and the name Nationals could have been considered somewhat confusing.
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He was a famous major league left handed pitcher. He has the second most lifetime strikeouts of any left handed pitcher.
Nolan Ryan
Through the 2008 season, that is 55 2/3 innings by Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators between April 10, 1913 and May 14, 1913.
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12 innings in Game 7 of the 1924 World Series between the Washington Senators and New York Giants played in Washington ... the Senators won 4-3.