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1880 in baseball
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The following are the baseball events of the year 1880 throughout the world. National League, Chicago White Stockings National Association, Washington Nationals Inter-league playoff, Chicago,4 games to 3 February 5 – The Worcester Ruby Legs are admitted to the National League. March 31 – The Worcester Ruby Legs offer the Providence Grays $1,000 for negotiating rights with Providence player-manager George Wright, the Grays refuse the offer and Wright remains the reserved property of Providence. April 21 – George Wright turns down the Providence Grays final contract offer, as a reserved player obligated to Providence, Wright has no other option but to sit out the season. April 28 – Lew Brown, catcher for the Boston Red Caps, may 1 – Roger Connor and Mickey Welch make their debuts for the Troy Trojans. Troy loses 13–1 to the Worcester Ruby Legs, who win their first National League game, may 1 – Ned Hanlon makes his debut for the Cleveland Blues in a losing effort. Hanlon will be elected to the Hall-of-Fame in 1996, may 5 – Charley Old Hoss Radbourn debuts for the Providence Grays. May 20 – Chicago White Stockings manager Cap Anson begins alternating Larry Corcoran, may 29 – The Chicago White Stockings set a National League record by winning their 13th consecutive game, a record they will shatter in 4 weeks. June 10 –1879 home run champ Charley Jones of the Boston Red Caps becomes the first player to hit 2 homers in one inning in a Boston victory over the Buffalo Bisons. June 12 – Lee Richmond of the Worcester Ruby Legs pitches the first perfect game in history in a 1–0 victory over the Cleveland Blues. June 17 – John Montgomery Ward of the Providence Grays pitches the 2nd perfect game in 6 days as the Grays defeat Pud Galvin, the National League would not see another perfect game until 1964. July 8 – The Chicago White Stockings win their 21st consecutive game and this record will stand until 1916 when it is broken by the New York Giants. It still stands as the 2nd longest winning streak in league history. July 11 – The Chicago Tribune publishes runs batted in for the first time, july 17 – Harry Stovey of the Worcester Ruby Legs hits his first big league home run. Stovey will become the first player in history to reach 100 career home runs, august 6 – Tim Keefe makes his major league debut with the Troy Trojans, pitching a 4-hitter in defeating the Cincinnati Reds. Keefe will end up with 342 career wins and be elected to the Hall-of-Fame in 1964, august 19 – Larry Corcoran of the Chicago White Stockings pitches a no-hitter against the Boston Red Caps. August 20 – Pud Galvin pitches a no-hitter for the Buffalo Bisons against the Worcester Ruby Legs and it is the 2nd day in a row that the National League has seen a no-hitter. August 27 – Bill Crowley of the Buffalo Bisons records 4 assists from the outfield for the time this season
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National League
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Both leagues currently have 15 teams. The two league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the inaugural World Series, after the 1904 champions failed to reach a similar agreement, the two leagues formalized the World Series as an arrangement between the leagues. National League teams have won 48 of the 112 World Series contested from 1903 to 2016, the 2016 National League champions are the Chicago Cubs. By 1875, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was dangerously weak, additionally, Hulbert had a problem—five of his star players were threatened with expulsion from the NAPBBP because Hulbert had signed them to his club using what were considered questionable means. Hulbert had a vested interest in creating his own league. After recruiting St. Louis privately, four western clubs met in Louisville, Kentucky, Boston Red Stockings, the dominant team in the N. A. Hartford Dark Blues from the N. A. Mutual of New York from the N. A. St. Louis Brown Stockings from the N. A, the only strong club from 1875 excluded in 1876 was a second one in Philadelphia, often called the White Stockings or Phillies. The first game in National League history was played on April 22,1876, at Philadelphias Jefferson Street Grounds, 25th & Jefferson, the new leagues authority was tested after the first season. The National League operated with six clubs during 1877 and 1878, over the next several years, various teams joined and left the struggling league. By 1880, six of the eight members had folded. The two remaining original NL franchises, Boston and Chicago, remain in operation today as the Atlanta Braves, in 1883 the New York Gothams and Philadelphia Phillies began National League play. Both teams remain in the NL today, the Phillies in their original city, the NL encountered its first strong rival organization when the American Association began play in 1882. The A. A. played in cities where the NL did not have teams, offered Sunday games and alcoholic beverages in locales where permitted, the National League and the American Association participated in a version of the World Series seven times during their ten-year coexistence. These contests were less organized than the modern Series, lasting as few as three games and as many as fifteen, with two Series ending in disputed ties, the NL won four times and the A. A. only once, in 1886. Starting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1887, the National League began to raid the American Association for franchises to replace NL teams that folded and this undercut the stability of the A. A. Other new leagues that rose to compete with the National League were the Union Association, the Union Association was established in 1884 and folded after playing only one season, its league champion St. Louis Maroons joining the NL. The NL suffered many defections of star players to the Players League, the Brooklyn, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York franchises of the NL absorbed their Players League counterparts. The labor strife of 1890 hastened the downfall of the American Association, after the 1891 season, the A. A. disbanded and merged with the NL, which became known legally for the next decade as the National League and American Association
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Buffalo, New York
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Buffalo is a city in western New York state and the county seat of Erie County, on the eastern shores of Lake Erie at the head of the Niagara River. As of 2014, Buffalo is New York states 2nd-most populous city after New York City, the metropolitan area has a population of 1.13 million. After an economic downturn in the half of the 20th century, Buffalos economy has transitioned to sectors that include financial services, technology, biomedical engineering. Residents of Buffalo are called Buffalonians, the citys nicknames include The Queen City, The Nickel City and The City of Good Neighbors. The city of Buffalo received its name from a creek called Buffalo Creek. British military engineer Captain John Montresor made reference to Buffalo Creek in his journal of 1764, there are several theories regarding how Buffalo Creek received its name. In 1804, as principal agent opening the area for the Holland Land Company, Joseph Ellicott, designed a radial street and grid system that branches out from downtown like bicycle spokes similar to the street system he used in the nations capital. Although Ellicott named the settlement New Amsterdam, the name did not catch on, during the War of 1812, on December 30,1813, Buffalo was burned by British forces. The George Coit House 1818 and Samuel Schenck House 1823 are currently the oldest houses within the limits of the City of Buffalo, on October 26,1825, the Erie Canal was completed with Buffalo a port-of-call for settlers heading westward. At the time, the population was about 2,400, the Erie Canal brought about a surge in population and commerce, which led Buffalo to incorporate as a city in 1832. In 1845, construction began on the Macedonia Baptist Church, an important meeting place for the abolitionist movement, Buffalo was a terminus point of the Underground Railroad with many fugitive slaves crossing the Niagara River to Fort Erie, Ontario in search of freedom. During the 1840s, Buffalos port continued to develop, both passenger and commercial traffic expanded with some 93,000 passengers heading west from the port of Buffalo. Grain and commercial goods shipments led to repeated expansion of the harbor, in 1843, the worlds first steam-powered grain elevator was constructed by local merchant Joseph Dart and engineer Robert Dunbar. Darts Elevator enabled faster unloading of lake freighters along with the transshipment of grain in bulk from barges, canal boats, by 1850, the citys population was 81,000. At the dawn of the 20th century, local mills were among the first to benefit from hydroelectric power generated by the Niagara River, the city got the nickname City of Light at this time due to the widespread electric lighting. It was also part of the revolution, hosting the brass era car builders Pierce Arrow. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6,1901, McKinley died in the city eight days later and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in at the Wilcox Mansion as the 26th President of the United States. The Great Depression of 1929–39 saw severe unemployment, especially working class men
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Sam Crane (second baseman)
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Samuel Newhall Crane was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Crane played for eight different major league teams during his career that spanned from 1880 to 1890. During two of those seasons, he acted as a player-manager, once for the 1880 Buffalo Bisons of the National League and his career ended when he was arrested after having an affair with the wife of a fruit dealer and stealing $1,500 from the husband. After his playing days, Sam had a long and distinguished career as a sportswriter. In 1895, when he was writing for the New York Advertiser, he had become the center of a controversy when he wrote an article that criticized the owner of the New York Giants. Freedman, upon learning of existence of the article, barred Sam from entering the Polo Grounds, when Crane showed up for the August 16 game, he learned that his season pass was taken and his efforts to purchase a ticket were foiled. Cooperstown was, at the time, the place that people believed where Abner Doubleday had invented the game of baseball. It was this idea of a memorial that eventually led to the creation of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Crane died at the age of 71 of pneumonia in New York City, and is interred at the Lutheran All Faith Cemetery in Middle Village, New York. List of Major League Baseball player–managers Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Buffalo Bisons (NL)
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The original Buffalo Bisons baseball club played in the National League between 1879 and 1885. The Bisons played their games at Riverside Park and Olympic Park in Buffalo,1877, A precursor to the Bisons played an independent schedule, finishing with a 79-28-3 record. The team subsequently joined the National League, galvin threw another no-hitter, on August 4. The Bisons 18-0 score remains the greatest margin of victory in a no-hitter in Major League history, two years after Foley, Jim ORourke became the fourth player in MLB history to hit for the cycle, on June 16
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Road (sports)
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A road game or away game is a sports game where the specified team is not the host and must travel to another venue. Most professional teams represent cities or towns and amateur sports teams often represent academic institutions, each team has a location where it practices during the season and where it hosts games. When a team is not the host, it must travel to games. Thus, when a team is not hosting a game, the team is described as the team, the visiting team, or the away team. The venue in which the game is played is described as the stadium or the road. The host team is said to be the home team, major sporting events, if not held at a neutral venue, are often over several legs at each teams home ground, so that neither team has an advantage over the other. Occasionally, the team may not have to travel very far at all to a road game. These matches often become local derbies, a few times a year, a road team may even be lucky enough to have the road game played at their own home stadium or arena. This is prevalent in college athletics where many schools will play in regional leagues or groundshare. The related term true road game has seen increasing use in U. S. college sports in the 21st century, while regular-season tournaments and other special events have been part of college sports from their creation, the 21st century has seen a proliferation of such events. These are typically held at sites, with some of them taking place outside the contiguous U. S. or even outside the country entirely. In turn, this has led to the use of true road game to refer to contests played at one home venue. In some association football leagues, particularly in Europe, the teams fans sit in their own section. Depending on the stadium, they will either sit in a designated section or be separated from the home fans by a cordon of police officers. However, in the leagues in England, supporters may be free to mix. When games are played at a site, for instance the FA Cup final in England which is always played at Wembley Stadium. This results in each team occupying one half of the stadium and this is different from other sports, particularly in North America, where very few fans travel to games played away from their home stadium. Home and away fans are not separated at these games
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Pud Galvin
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James Francis Pud Galvin was an American Major League Baseball pitcher in the 19th century. He was MLBs first 300-game winner and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1965, Galvin grew up in Kerry Patch, an Irish neighborhood in St. Louis. He debuted for St. Louis of the National Association in 1875, the inaugural season. He spent the next 6½ seasons with Buffalo in the International Association, in his first full MLB season in 1879, Galvin had a win–loss record of 37-27 and a 2.28 earned run average in 593 innings pitched. On August 20,1880, he became the first major league pitcher to throw a no-hitter on the road and he pitched over 400 innings in 1880,1881, and 1882. In 1883, Galvin went 46-29 with a 2.72 ERA, setting highs in wins, games started, complete games. The following season, in 1884, he went 46-22 with a 1.99 ERA in 72 games started,71 complete games, Galvin was traded to the Pittsburg Alleghenys midseason in 1885. He played for the Allegheny club from 1885 to 1889, pitching over 300 innings each year and he jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers before the 1890 season and then returned to the Alleghenys after only one season. On June 14,1892 Galvin was traded to the St. Louis Browns and he retired after the 1892 season, though he made a brief return to Buffalo in 1894. Galvin played in an era where two-man pitching rotations were common – hence his 6,003 innings pitched and 646 complete games, upon his retirement, Galvin held all-time records in several pitching categories, including wins, innings pitched, games started, games completed and shutouts. He became MLBs first 300-game winner in 1888, Galvin holds the record for most games started in a single season by a pitcher before 1893,75. Galvin is the player in baseball history to win 20 or more games in 10 different years without winning a pennant. The nickname Pud originated because Galvin was said to make look like pudding. Galvin was also nicknamed The Little Steam Engine, a tribute to his power in spite of his small size and he was sometimes known as Gentle Jeems because of his kind disposition. Galvin died poor at age 45 on March 7,1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1965 by the Veterans Committee. In honor of his achievements in Buffalo, Galvin was posthumously inducted into the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985, a 2006 NPR article referred to Galvin as the first baseball player to be widely known for using a performance enhancer. The Washington Post reported that Galvin used the Brown-Séquard elixir, which contained monkey testosterone, before a single game in 1889
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Stump Wiedman
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George Edward Stump Wiedman was an American professional baseball player from 1880 to 1893. He played nine years in Major League Baseball, principally as a pitcher and outfielder. He appeared in 379 major league games,279 as a pitcher and 122 as an outfielder, and his longest stretches were with the Detroit Wolverines, as a pitcher, he compiled a 101-156 win–loss record with a 3.61 earned run average in 2318 1⁄3 innings pitched. He led the National League in 1881 with a 1.80 ERA and he pitched more innings for the Wolverines than any other pitcher in the clubs history. Wiedman was born in Rochester, New York, in 1861 and he attended Rochester University and was a pitcher on the baseball team there in 1880. He also played for the Hop Hitters Club of Rochester, with Buck Ewing as his catcher, Wiedman made his major league debut with the Buffalo Bisons on August 26,1880. In the final weeks of the 1880 season, Wiedman started 13 games for the Bisons and he compiled a 0–9 record and 3.40 earned run average in 113 2⁄3 innings pitched. Wiedman began the 1881 season with the Washington Nationals, then joined the Albany, New York, after the Albany team folded, Wiedman joined the Detroit Wolverines and brought his catcher Sam Trott with him. Wiedman and Trott made their debut for Detroit on September 3,1881, Wiedman started 13 games for Detroit in the last month of the season, compiling an 8-5 record and 1.18 ERA in 115 innings pitched. He led the National League in ERA and had the lowest WHIP rating at 1.043, Wiedman had another strong year in 1882, winning 25 games, pitching 411 innings and 43 complete games with a WHIP rating of 1.046. On August 17,1882, he was the pitcher in one of the great pitching duels in baseball history. Monte Ward was the pitcher for the Providence Grays, and he, Wiedman allowed only seven hits but lost the game in the 18th inning on a home run by Old Hoss Radbourn, who was playing in right field. While he won 25 games in 1882, Wiedman also ranked among the leaders with 20 losses. Wiedman lost at least 20 games for five seasons from 1882 to 1886. Wiedman also appeared 88 games as an outfielder for the Wolverines during the 1883 and 1884 seasons and he scored 58 runs, had 50 RBIs, and compiled a.175 batting average during those seasons. Applying the sabermetric Wins Above Replacement model, Wiedman earned negative ratings of -1.6, in 1887, Wiedman returned to the Wolverines, where he went 13–7, helping them to the 1887 National League pennant. Over the course of six seasons, Wiedman pitched more innings for the Wolverines than any pitcher in the clubs history. After the 1885 season, Wiedman was released by the Wolverines to league control and he appeared in 51 games as a starting pitcher for the Cowboys, including 48 complete games, and also appeared in three games as an outfielder
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Jim Keenan
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James William Keenan was a Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of seasons in the majors. He played most of his league career with the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association and later National League. He stayed in Indianapolis to start the 1885 season, with the entry in the Western League, but the league quickly folded. Before he played a game for Detroit, however, Keenan jumped to the Red Stockings, over the next four seasons, he would split the catching duties for the Red Stockings with Kid Baldwin. In 1890 and 1891, he backed up Jerry Harrington, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Jack Rowe
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John Charles Jack Rowe was an American professional baseball player, manager and team owner from 1877 to 1898. He played 12 years in Major League Baseball, as a shortstop, catcher and his longest stretches were in the National League with the Buffalo Bisons and Detroit Wolverines. He was also a player-manager and part owner of the Buffalo Bisons of the Players League in 1890, and his older brother, Dave Rowe, also played and managed in the major leagues between 1877 to 1888. At age 19, Rowe began his career in organized baseball in 1876 with a club in Jacksonville, in 1877, he played for the Milwaukee club in the League Alliance. He also played in 1877 and/or 1878 under Tom Loftus with the Peoria Reds, in 1879, Rowe and his brother, Dave Rowe, signed with the Rockford, Illinois team in the Northwestern League. At Rockford, Rowe earned a reputation as a hitter and one of the best bare-handed catchers in the game, after the Northwestern League folded in early July 1878, Rowe signed with the Buffalo Bisons of the National League. He made his league debut on September 6,1879, at age 22. Rowe remained with Buffalo for seven years from 1879 to 1885, during the 1879 to 1884 seasons, Rowe was principally a catcher, appearing in 272 games at that position,91 games as an outfielder,55 as a shortstop and 20 at third base. In 1881, he compiled a.333 batting average and led the National League with 11 triples, two of Rowes triples came in one game against the Chicago White Stockings on August 16,1881. His.480 slugging percentage in 1881 was the third highest in the league, in 1882, he registered a 2.7 WAR rating and did not strike out even once in 329 plate appearances. He also hit for the cycle on August 25,1883, Rowe was one of four Buffalo players who became known as the Big Four. The Big Four were regarded for many years as the greatest quartette in the history of the national pastime, during the 1884 season, the Big Four led Buffalo to a third place finish and a 64–47 record – the highest winning percentage in the clubs history. Rowe registered a career high 4.6 WAR rating in 1884 and ranked among the leaders with 14 triples, a.450 slugging percentage. He also led the National Leagues catchers in 1884 with a.943 fielding percentage, in 1885, Rowe transitioned from a catcher to a shortstop, catching 23 games and playing shortstop in 65 games. Despite the strong bats of the Big Four, the Bisons had the worst pitching in the National League with a 4.28 earned run average, the team finished in seventh place with a 38-74 record. The Bisons left the National League after the 1885 season, in September 1885, the Big Four were sold by Buffalo to the Detroit Wolverines. All four remained with the Wolverines for three seasons, until the team disbanded after the 1888 season, during the 1886 season, Rowe appeared in 111 games and was Detroits starting shortstop. He also appeared in three games as a catcher and he compiled a 4.2 Wins Above Replacement rating during the 1886 season, the eighth highest rating among all position players in the National League
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Davy Force
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David W. Davy Force was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. He was born on July 27,1849 in New York City, louis Brown Stockings, Buffalo Bisons and Washington Nationals. In a 15-season career, Force posted a.249 batting average with 653 runs and 373 RBI in 1029 games played, Davy Force died on June 21,1918 in Englewood, New Jersey, at the age of 68. He was buried there in Brookside Cemetery, list of Major League Baseball single-game hits leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Davy Force obituary
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Arlie Latham
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Walter Arlington Latham was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball. He played from 1880 through 1909 for the Buffalo Bisons, St. Louis Browns, Chicago Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Senators and he also served as player-manager of the Browns in 1896. Latham stole 129 bases during the 1887 season and his career total of 742 ranks seventh all-time in the majors. As a player-coach for the 1909 Giants, Latham at age 49 became the oldest MLB player to steal a base, after his retirement as a player, he became what is acknowledged as the first full-time base coach in baseball history. For years he served as a coach and manager in minor league baseball, after retiring from baseball, Latham traveled to Great Britain, where he organized baseball matches for soldiers during World War I, and taught baseball to the British. He later worked in baseball as a press box attendant, lathams father served as a bugler for the Union Army in the American Civil War. Latham became interested in baseball when soldiers returning from the battlefield brought the game of baseball with them, at the age of fourteen, Latham played with a local team from Stoneham, Massachusetts as their catcher. He played in the field barehanded, in 1877, he played for a team in Pittsfield, Massachusetts as the third baseman. Latham made his debut in minor league baseball with Springfield of the National Association in 1879. Latham debuted in MLB with the Buffalo Bisons of the National League in 1880 and he played for the Philadelphia Athletics of the National Association in 1881, and the Philadelphia Phillies of the League Alliance in 1882. Latham returned to MLB with the St. Louis Browns of the American Association in 1883, Latham was known as a very good base stealer in his day. He led the AA in runs scored during the 1886 season and he also batted.316 and stole 142 bases, plus another 12 stolen bases in the playoffs. In 1887, as a member of the Browns, he stole 129 bases and this record is not recognized by Major League Baseball, as stolen bases were defined differently prior to 1898. He led the league in bases with 109 during the 1888 season. In 1890, he jumped to the Chicago Pirates of the Players League and he returned to the NL with the Cincinnati Reds in July 1890 to serve as a utility player and coach. He played for Cincinnati through 1895, and was traded to the Browns after the 1895 season with Ed McFarland, Morgan Murphy, Tom Parrott and cash for Red Ehret, the Browns released Latham after the 1896 season. Latham returned to minor league baseball and he played for the Columbus Buckeyes/Senators of the Western League and Scranton Miners of the Eastern League in 1896. He played for the Mansfield Haymakers of the Interstate League in 1897, in 1898, he applied to become a NL umpire, instead, he played for the New Britain Rangers of the Connecticut State League and Hartford Cooperatives of the Atlantic League in 1898
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Denny Mack
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Dennis Joseph Mack, born as Dennis Joseph McGee, was a professional baseball player who was a first baseman and shortstop in Major League Baseball for eight seasons from 1871 to 1883. He played for seven different teams, including as a player-manager for the Louisville Eclipse in 1882, Mack spent three years at Villanova University, then joined the Rockford Forest Citys of the National Association for the 1871 season. Mack appeared in all 25 of his teams games, leading the team with 34 runs scored,8 walks, Mack went on to play the next three seasons in the National Association. During the last of these,1874, he was involved in accusations of game fixing, on August 20, umpire Billy McLean came forward with allegations that a game between Macks Philadelphia Whites and the Chicago White Stockings had been thrown by the Philadelphia club. McLean claimed that Philadelphias John Radcliffe had approached him with an offer of $175 in exchange for making calls favorable to the White Stockings, according to McLean, Radcliffe named four other players as complicit in the fix, Mack, Candy Cummings, Bill Craver, and Nat Hicks. Mack then spent 1876 and 1880 in the National League, during the 1882 season, he also served as manager of the Louisville Eclipse, leading the second-place club to a 42-38 record. He led the NA in walks in 1872, and ranked among his leagues leaders in stolen bases three times, Mack ended his career with a.228 batting average.273 on-base percentage, and.271 slugging percentage in 373 games played and 1505 at bats. He suffered a fit on the evening of April 9,1888, list of Major League Baseball player–managers Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Mike Moynahan
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Michael Moynahan, was an American professional baseball player from 1879 to 1886. He appeared in 169 games across four seasons in Major League Baseball, principally as a shortstop, for the Buffalo Bisons, Detroit Wolverines, Cleveland Blues, and Philadelphia Athletics. He was the shortstop, and with a.310 batting average the leading hitter. Moynahan was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1856, Moynahan began his career as a professional baseball player in 1879 with the Davenport Brown Stockings of the Northwestern League. In August 1880, Moynahan made his league debut with the Buffalo Bisons of the National League. He appeared in 27 games, all at shortstop for the Bisons, during the 1881 season, Moynahan played for two National League clubs. He appeared in 33 games,32 in the outfield, for the Cleveland Blues, in total, he compiled a.230 average in 142 games during the 1881 season. In 1882, Moynahan played minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies and he returned to the major leagues in 1883 as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association. Moynahan appeared in 95 games, all at shortstop, for the Athletics during the 1883 season, compiling a.310 batting average, scoring 90 runs, and hitting 18 doubles and 10 triples with 67 RBIs. He was the shortstop, and the leading hitter, for the 1883 Athletics team that won the American Association pennant with a 66-32 record. His teammates on the 1883 Athletics included Harry Stovey, Moynahan began the 1884 season with the Athletics, but he was released on May 17,1884, after appearing in only one game with the club. He was then signed as an agent by the Cleveland Blues of the National League. He appeared in 13 games for the Blues in 1884 and compiled a.289 batting average before being released on June 23,1884. Although Moynahans major league career ended in June 1884, he continued to play minor league baseball, including stints with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1884, Moynahan died in 1899 at age 43 in Chicago. He was buried at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in that city
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Hardy Richardson
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Abram Harding Hardy Richardson, also known as Hardie and Old True Blue, was an American professional baseball player whose career spanned from 1875 to 1892 with a brief minor league comeback in 1898. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball, playing at position, including 585 games at second base,544 games in the outfield. Richardson played for six major league teams, with his longest stretches having been for the Buffalo Bisons, Detroit Wolverines, Richardson was born in 1855 at Clarksboro, which is located in the existing municipality of East Greenwich Township, New Jersey. His father, Robert D. Richardson, was a New Jersey native who worked in 1870 as a house carpenter and his mother, Naomi Richardson, was a Pennsylvania native. Richardson grew up in Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, and Gloucester City, by 1870, Richardson, at age 15, was working on a farm. Richardson began playing organized baseball with semipro teams in South Jersey, in 1875, he played at third base and catcher for the Gloucester City, New Jersey club. For a portion of the 1876 season, he played with the Philadelphias, Richardson next played for the Crickets from Binghamton, New York, during the 1876 and 1877 seasons. In 1878, he played for the Utica, New York club in the International Association for Professional Base Ball Players, while playing for Utica, the New York Clipper called him the best fielding center fielder in baseball, he also won The Clipper medal for best fielding average. Richardson joined the Buffalo Bisons of the National League in 1879, as a rookie, Richardson made his major league debut on May 1,1879, and promptly became Buffalos starting third baseman. He compiled a.283 batting average, earned a 2.5 Wins Above Replacement rating and he also led the leagues third basemen in games played, double plays turned, and errors, and ranked second at the position in assists, putouts, and fielding percentage. In 1880, Richardson was again positioned at third base and he saw his batting average drop to.259 and his WAR rating drop to 1.1. He still hit for power and ranked among the leaders with eight triples and 26 extra base hits. Defensively, his performance suffered as he ranked second among the leagues third basemen with 47 errors, after a poor defensive performance in 1880, Richardson was moved to the outfield in 1881. With the move, his average jumped to.291. Showing good power, he ranked among the leaders with nine triples,53 RBIs,29 extra base hits,62 runs scored,100 hits. The move to the outfield also suited Richardson defensively and he led the leagues outfielders with 45 assists and a range factor of 2.84 and ranked third with 179 putouts. Richardsons total of 45 outfield assists was five short of Orator Shafers major league record, in 1882, and despite his solid defensive performance in the outfield, Richardson switched positions for the second time in as many years. This time, he was moved to base, where he played 83 games
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Denny Driscoll
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John F. Denny Driscoll was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from 1880 to 1884. Driscoll played for the Buffalo Bisons, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, and Louisville Eclipse, while playing for Pittsburgh, he led the American Association in earned run average in 1882, at 1.21. In 1883, He was the pitcher for the Alleghenys for most of the season with an 18-21 record. Driscoll was playing professionally for local teams in Lowell and Nashua. In November,1882, he married 18-year old Mary Driscoll of Westford, soon afterwards he moved to Westford, most likely in the village of Graniteville, as the Casey family members were employed in the local granite quarries and mills. After the death of his father-in-law, Driscoll supported the Casey family with his baseball salary, in vital records of the early 1880s, he alternately listed his occupation as ball player or machinist. Denny Driscoll had two children with Mary, John William, born September 17,1883, and Lizzie, Driscoll died in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts at the age of 30 of consumption. He is interred at St. Patrick Cemetery, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Joe Hornung
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Michael Joseph Hornung was an American baseball player and one of the greatest fielders of the 19th century. Michael Joseph Hornung was born in Carthage, New York in 1857, Hornung ended his baseball career in 1890 with the New York Giants, but he spent most of his career with the Boston Red Caps/Beaneaters. He also spent one season in the now-defunct American Association and he was remarkable for his nearly flawless play in left field and also known for his peculiar habit of shouting ubbo ubbo whenever he got a hit or made a good fielding play. Due to this peculiarity, Ubbo Ubbo became Hornungs nickname, in addition to being an exceptional fielder, Hornung was also a fast baserunner, stealing 39 bases in his final season, and was a fair hitter, batting.302 in 1882. He led all National League outfielders in fielding percentage in 1881,1882,1883 and 1886, fielding as high as.948, Hornung died in 1931 in Howard Beach, New York
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Charles Radbourn
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Charles Gardner Radbourn, nicknamed Old Hoss, was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball. He played for the Buffalo Bisons, Providence Grays, Boston Beaneaters, Boston Reds, in 1884, Radbourn became only the second National League pitcher to win a Triple Crown, in the process, he broke the single-season wins record, which still stands today. Radbourn was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939, born in New York and raised in Illinois, Radbourn played semi-professional and minor league baseball before making his major league debut for the Buffalo Bisons in 1880. After a one-year stint with the club, Radbourn joined the Providence Grays, in 1885, when the team folded, the Grays roster was transferred to NL control, where he was claimed by the Boston Beaneaters. Radbourn spent the four seasons with the club, and finished his MLB career with the Cincinnati Reds after a one-year tenure with the Boston Reds. Radbourn was born on December 11,1854, in Rochester, New York, Charles Radbourn had immigrated to the United States from Bristol, England, to find work as a butcher, Caroline followed soon after. In 1855, the Radbourn family moved to Bloomington, Illinois, as a teenager, Radbourn worked as a butcher with his father, and as a brakeman for the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway company. In 1878 Radbourn joined the Peoria Reds, a team, as their right fielder. In 1879 he signed with Dubuque in the newly formed Northwest League and he finally made the major leagues in 1880 as second baseman, right fielder and change pitcher for the Buffalo Bisons of the National League. He played in six games, batted.143, never pitched an inning, when he recovered he pitched for a pick-up Bloomington team in an exhibition game against the Providence Grays. He impressed everyone so much that Providence signed him on the spot for a salary variously reported as $1,100 or $1,400, as a starting pitcher for the Providence Grays, Boston Beaneaters, Boston Reds, and Cincinnati Reds, Radbourn compiled a 309–194 career record. In 1884 he won the National Leagues pitching Triple Crown with a 1.38 earned run average,59 wins and 441 strikeouts. His 59 wins in a season is a record which is expected never to be broken because no starter has made even as many as 37 starts in a season since Greg Maddux in 1991. Also, his 678 2⁄3 innings pitched in 1884 stands at second all-time, behind only Will White and it, too, is a record that will most likely never be touched. It was made possible by the expulsion of the Grays other main pitcher. When Providence failed to win the pennant at the end of the 1883 season the franchise was on shaky financial ground, ownership brought in a new manager, Frank Bancroft, and made it plain, win the pennant or the team would be disbanded. But on July 22, Sweeney had been drinking before the start of the game, with only two men to cover the outfield, they lost the game. This left the team in a state of disarray with the view that the team should be disbanded
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Dan Stearns
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Daniel Eckford Stearns, commonly known as Ecky Stearns, was a Major League Baseball first baseman from 1880-1889. He played for the Buffalo Bisons, Detroit Wolverines, Kansas City Cowboys, Baltimore Orioles, accordingly, on Opening Day for the Red Stockings, Stearns wore an unusual candy-striped jersey. Stearns made the final out by bouncing into a fielders choice that forced runner Pop Snyder at second base. The Red Stockings had the last laugh, however, ending the year as the AAs inaugural champions, unsatisfied with their first-base play in 1882, the Red Stockings signed Long John Reilly of the New York Metropolitans to replace Stearns prior to the 1883 season. Stearns spent the 1887 season with the Topeka Golden Giants of the Western League and that team finished with a dominant record of 90–25, and is sometimes described as the strongest minor league baseball club of the 19th century. Stearns is also notable as one of the first Jews to play Major League Baseball and his status as such made him popular with Jewish youths who were fans of the game. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Dan Brouthers
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Dennis Joseph Dan Brouthers was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball whose career spanned the period from 1879 to 1896, with a brief return in 1904. Nicknamed Big Dan for his size, he was 6 feet 2 inches and weighed 207 pounds and his career slugging percentage of.519 remained the Major League record for a player with at least 4,000 at bats until Ty Cobb edged ahead of him in 1922. At the time of his retirement, he also ranked second in career triples. A dominant hitter during the prime of his career, he led the league in most offensive categories, including batting average, runs scored, runs batted in, on-base percentage and hits. He led the league in batting five times, the most by a 19th-century player. Brouthers is one of only 29 players in history to date who have appeared in Major League games in four decades. He was also an active union member, and was elected vice president of the Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players. Brouthers was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 by the Veterans Committee. Born in Sylvan Lake, New York, he played organized baseball from the time that he was a child, from playing in the local sandlots to the semi-professional Actives of Wappingers Falls, New York. On July 7,1877, while running the bases, he collided at home plate with a catcher, named Johnny Quigley, Quigley was knocked unconscious, having suffered a traumatic head injury, and later died from these injuries on August 12. The 19-year-old Brouthers was cleared of any wrongdoing by the authorities, Brouthers made his Major League debut on June 23,1879, for the Troy Trojans, and contributed a single in a come-from-behind victory against the Syracuse Stars. Although he was a first baseman, he was called upon to pitch that season with the Trojans in three games, one of which was on August 21 against Tommy Bond and the Boston Red Caps. Brouthers lost 16–0, and within two weeks he was released from the club and he hit.274 that first season, with four home runs, and had 17 RBIs in 39 games played. He hit well enough in the minors to get another shot with the Trojans and he got his first chance to be an everyday player in 1881, when he was signed by the Bisons, the team that he did well against the previous year. That season he batted.319, and played with them until the team folded after the 1885 season, in his first season with the Bisons, he led the National League in home runs and slugging percentage. Brouthers, along with teammates Jack Rowe, Hardy Richardson and Deacon White, in 1882 and 1883 he won his first two batting titles, posting.368 and.374 averages, respectively. On July 19,1883, Brouthers went 6-for-6 with two doubles in a 25–5 defeat of the Philadelphia Quakers. At the end of the 1885 season, Buffalo was going through financial trouble and were forced to sell off their players, so The Big Four were sold to the Detroit Wolverines of the NL for US$7,000
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Jim O'Rourke (baseball)
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James Henry ORourke, nicknamed Orator Jim, was an American professional baseball player in the National Association and Major League Baseball who played primarily as a left fielder. For the period 1876–1892, he ranks behind only Cap Anson in career major league games played, hits, at-bats, doubles and total bases, ORourke was born in East Bridgeport, Connecticut, and worked on his familys farm while playing youth league and semi-pro baseball. He began his career as a member of the Middletown Mansfields in 1872. On April 22,1876, ORourke had the first base hit in National League history and he graduated from Yale Law School in 1887 with an LL. B. After leaving the major leagues following the 1893 season he continued to play in the leagues until he was over 50 years old. As an executive of the Bridgeport team in the Connecticut League, ORourke is one of only 29 players in baseball history to appear in Major League games in four decades. In 1912, returned to the field to catch a complete minor league game at the age of 60, ORourke died of pneumonia at age 68 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 as one of the earliest inductees from the 19th century and his older brother John ORourke and his son James Queenie ORourke also played in the majors. One legend concerning ORourke is that he was asked to drop the O from his last name when he signed a contract with Boston and its Protestant backers. The son of Irish immigrants and the husband of a born in Ireland, ORourke refused. A million dollars would not tempt me, another legend about ORourke is that his signing by the Mansfields in 1872 was conditioned on the team finding someone to take over ORourkes chores on his parents farm. Jim ORourke at the Baseball Hall of Fame Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
