The book focuses on baseball players Judge and Walter Johnson, detailing how they took the Washington Senators to win the 1924 World Series.

[7][8] The author discusses how the baseball player was the inspiration for the character Joe from the novel by Douglass Wallop that was adapted into the play Damn Yankees.

[4] Cobb maintained a strategy of sharpening the cleats on his shoes and then sliding into bases at an angle such as to hurt the players on the opposing team.

[4] Prior to a match with the Washington Senators, Cobb is depicted in the book as marching over to their baseball dugout and prominently sharpening his cleats in front of the opposing players.

[4] One player for the New York Giants remarked that divine intervention helped Johnson win the game, due to his reputation for kindness towards others.

[17][18] Before publishing Damn Senators, Judge had written prior books including: Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk (1997),[19][12][20] and If It Ain't Got That Swing (2000).

[24] Judge recalls in a piece for The New York Times, being pleasantly surprised by the positive reaction by attendees at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium when his grandfather was added to the Hall of Stars for Washington, D.C. sportspeople on October 21, 1990.

[30][31] Judge subsequently published other books including God and Man at Georgetown Prep (2005),[17][32] and A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock 'n' Roll (2010).

[1] The Boston Globe journalist Michael Kranish was interviewed on Weekend Edition for NPR in 2004, and highlighted Judge's book Damn Senators among his favorite summer reading picks.

[3] The newspaper called it, "A slim but satisfying memoir of the author's grandfather, long-ago Washington Senators first baseman Joe Judge.

"[3] The Weekly Standard wrote of the author's description of 1924: "Mark Gauvreau Judge, has beautifully captured the excitement and intensity of that season in Damn Senators.

"[6] A book review in April 2003 in The Washington Times wrote, "Judge does a nice job recapturing the excitement of the World Series".

[2] The review concluded, "This thin volume may be of some interest to historians studying the formerly woebegone Washington Senators drive to the franchise's only World Series championship in 1924.