The basketball team has usually been at best pedestrian, yet they won a title in the 70's- there was a period when there were weird championship clubs like Golden State and Washington winning titles, the hockey team usually sucks. The Redskins have won some titles. The current baseball team, the ex-Expos, is not very good. The second Senators, who later became the Texas Rangers, had one flukish, overachieving winning year in 1969 but were pretty terrible otherwise. The original Washington Senators were bad for the most part, though contenders in the 20's and 30's, and they did win a Series and 2 pennants in that span. Not as bad as the St. Louis Browns, the Braves, the Red Sox in the 20's/ early 30's, or the Phillies from c. 1920-45, but usually bad despite having the man who is probably the most dominant hurler in MLB history in Walter Johnson for a long time. 19th century baseball clubs in Washington were even worse, and there's not much of a baseball legacy in the capital.
