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The only time a baseball team based in Washington, D.C. won the World Series, the great Senators pitcher Walter Johnson was on the mound. Johnson — who would go on to be part of the first Hall of Fame class — was still effective at age 36, winning 23 games in 1924, and would be named the AL MVP. He won Game 7 of the World Series with four shutout innings in relief to close out the game, delivering the last baseball title to the nation’s capital.