After years of struggling with attendance and fighting with baseball and city officials, Calvin Griffith, the owner of the original Senators, gets approval to move. The approval comes as the American League decides to expand one year earlier than planned.

Part of the approval comes because one of the two expansion teams will be placed in Washington to replace the charter American League franchise that moved to Minnesota. Although the team will pick up the old name Senators, it will be as an expansion team, since the team that moved to Minnesota was allowed to keep its history.