Witter Field Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin Home of the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters Former home of the Wisconsin Rapids Twins Senators White Sox |
The new Wisconsin Rapids Senators took the field in 1963 and featured future Washington
Senators players, Dick Nold (4-4, 3.25) and Jim French (19 2B, 8 HR, .286).
Brennan Asplen had the 2nd best season of any W.R. player slamming 27 doubles,
17 HRs and batting .299. Michael Kuilan (11-5, 3.78), Harvey Mattingly (10-3,
3.80) and Clayton Bittinger (12-12, 3.15) pitched well and kept the team to
within 4 games of .500 as the new Wisconsin Rapids Senators finished the season
at 58-62. While things looked to finally be stabilizing at Witter Field, all kinds
of huge changes were happeneing in the Major Leagues. The Washington Senators
who held the umbrella over the Wisconsin Rapids Single-A team, picked up and
moved out of RFK Stadium to Minnesota's Metropolitan Stadium to become the Minnesota
Twins. With the move, the brand new "Twins" took their Single-A Wisconsin
Rapids team with them and renamed them the Wisconsin Rapids Twins. Washington
D.C. was given a brand new "Washington Senators" team as a replacement for the
one that left, but that new Senators team was completely unrelated to the one
that had played there since the turn of the century. The "real" Senators history
had moved to MInnesota (though you wouldn't know it by the standings). |