...I believe when the Senators left for Minnesota the history of the Washington Senators remained in Washington because Washington got a new team immediately. Therefore, Minnesota has no claim on it. It all left Washington when they relocated to Texas. Honestly, I don't think anyone here cares about Guerrero's franchise record. But Frank Howard's numbers are revered by the Washington faithful, even if they technically belong to Texas.
Not true; the franchise takes the records with them. All of the
Washington Senators records prior to 1962 went to Minnesota, and the 1962 expansion franchise took its records to Texas later. The lifetime hitting records of Harmon Killebrew are all in Minnesota, even though part of them were made in Washington. If you look at
Baseball Almanac, that's how
all of the records are sorted, for all teams that have moved. The
Expos records all belong to the Nationals. Look here:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teammenu.shtmlI do agree with the notion that players and records mean more to the home city where they were played than to the carpetbagger owners who found some suckers to pay them more. If the game was guaranteed to be televised in Montreal, I wouldn't mind them wearing the Expos uniforms for a game, to say "thanks" to their fans for keeping the franchise alive. I'd also get a kick out of playing the Rangers or Twins with Nationals playing against Senators-uniformed players (as long as we kicked their butts and ran up the score... and hung a
SHORT STINKS banner in the outfield.
I believe that the NFL may have departed from this tradition, leaving the Cleveland Browns' records in Cleveland. I think the owner might have put up a ring of fame with names from Cleveland in the Ravens' Stadium. Somebody can confirm or deny all this, but I remember the controversy of moving that team, when it was still selling out its games.
