[2] The Senators' struggles on the field and at the turnstiles helped drive owner James H. Lemon to put the team on the market.
Short had earlier owned a professional sports team when he purchased the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBA in 1957, moved them to Los Angeles in 1960, and sold the reborn Los Angeles Lakers to Jack Kent Cooke in 1964.
[3] In a front-office housecleaning, Short ousted general manager George Selkirk and took responsibility for the club's baseball operations himself.
He then made headlines by replacing 1968's first-year manager Jim Lemon (no relation to the former owner) with Baseball Hall of Fame hitter Ted Williams, whom he lured back into uniform to become the club's new pilot.
Infielders Coaches Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg.