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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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Recreation Park (Pittsburgh)
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Recreation Park was a sporting grounds and stadium located in what is today Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The stadium existed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, during the parks heyday, the location was considered to be within Allegheny City, but in 1907, the entire municipality was annexed by its larger neighbor and eventually became Pittsburghs North Side. The field was the first National League home for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball and it also hosted many football games of the University of Pittsburgh of the NCAA. In November 1892, the park was the location of the first known American football game that included a professional player. There is only one photograph of the grounds in a baseball stadium configuration. However, several photos of later football games played there survive. Opened in 1865 as a center, the park was adapted for baseball use in 1867. Known prior to 1885 as Union Park, the stadium had a capacity of 2,500. After the Alleghenys moved a few blocks south in 1890, the main tenant became the Allegheny Athletic Association, beyond the turn of the 20th century, it was called the Pittsburgh Coliseum, in line with the cycling phase. The park was located within the blocks of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 2001, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pirates built stadiums not far from this site. In the late 1860s and early 70s, no less than three local amateur baseball teams—the Enterprise Club, the Xanthas, and the Olympics—competed, most often at Union Park. In 1876 a professional Allegheny club played its first game against the Xantha club at Union Park and this club lasted for three years, playing mostly other squads from the northeast within the International Association, but occasionally taking on National League teams in exhibition games. One long remembered match took place in early May,1877, the 1882-organized Pittsburgh Alleghenys of the American Association moved from Exposition Park II to Union Park in 1884. The team posted a record of 18–37 at home that season, in 1887, owner William A. Nimick transferred the club into the National League, and on April 30, the Alleghenies defeated the Chicago White Stockings, 6–2 in front of 10,000 spectators. This was the first officially recognized contest of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise by the team, legend has it that, prior to that opening game of the 1887 season, Pittsburghs catcher Fred Carroll buried his pet monkey beneath home plate. On November 12,1892, the Allegheny Athletic Association football team hosted a game here against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, the Allegheny Athletic Association won the game, which was the first in professional football. The team had hired Pudge Heffelfinger, a guard from Yale. In 1902, a Pirates-backed football team, the Pittsburgh Stars of the first National Football League, the Stars would go on to win the leagues only championship against the Philadelphia Athletics, 11-0 at the field
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Allegheny, Pennsylvania
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Allegheny City is the name of a former Pennsylvania municipality now reorganized and merged into the larger community, the modern City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907, the City of Allegheny was laid out in 1788 according to a plan by John Redick. The lots were sold in Philadelphia by the State government or given as payment to Revolutionary War veterans and it was incorporated as a borough in 1828 and as a city in 1840. Prior to the 1850s, most of the area was largely farmland. It was commonly referred to as Deutschtown, derived from the German word Deutsch, referring to the language and ethnicity. The annexation of Allegheny City by Pittsburgh began in 1906 and was effected in 1907 and it was approved by the United States Government in 1911. The annexation was controversial at the time, as a majority of Allegheny City residents were opposed to the merger. Previous Pennsylvania law had directed that a majority of the voters in each merging municipality had to approve an annexation agreement, in 1906, the State Assembly passed a new law that authorized annexations if a majority of the total voters in both combined municipalities approved the merger. The annexation was rejected by the residents of Allegheny City by a 2,1 margin, but was approved by more populous Pittsburgh residents. Allegheny City residents tried unsuccessfully for years to have the annexation overturned in court. The population of Pittsburgh rose from 321,616 in 1900 to 533,905 in 1910, which included the 132,283 who lived in Allegheny in 1910, when the two cities were joined, both of the old ward systems were discarded. A new ward system was established made up of 27 wards, in the new ward system, Allegheny was divided into wards 21 to 27. Its past territory is seen by viewing a map of the city wards. The Carnegie Library, the Old Post Office Building, and the Buhl Planetarium buildings were not demolished, the H. J. Heinz Company built its factory in Allegheny City, close to the Chestnut Street bridge. Heyl & Patterson Inc. a manufacturer of railcar dumpers and ship unloaders, the surviving structures are now occupied by a furniture warehouse and a bus garage. Railroad lines were built along the side of the Allegheny for the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago. When workers in Pittsburgh struck against the Pennsylvania Railroad after wage cuts in July 1877, the Teutonia Männerchor Hall in the East Allegheny neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a building constructed in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, the Teutonia Männerchor is a private membership club with the purpose of furthering choral singing, German cultural traditions and good fellowship
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Horace Phillips (baseball)
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Horace B. Phillips was an American manager in Major League Baseball for eight seasons, from 1879 to 1889. He managed one season for the Troy Trojans, one season for the Columbus Buckeyes and he was born in Salem, Ohio. On June 6,1882, Phillips was arrested in Philadelphia for not paying a bill from 1882. He claimed that A. J. Reach was put in charge of paying it, shortly after his time in Pittsburgh, Phillips was institutionalized for mental illness in the Kirkbrides Asylum in Philadelphia, then later in a private hospital in Merchantville, New Jersey. His wife divorced him in 1894, horace Phillips managerial career statistics at Baseball-Reference. com Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
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Pittsburgh Alleghenys
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The following is a history of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball. Professional baseball has been played in the Pittsburgh area since 1876, the teams of the era were independents, barnstorming throughout the region and not affiliated with any organized league, though they did have salaries and were run as business organizations. In 1882, the strongest team in the joined the American Association as a founding member. Their various home fields in the 19th century were in a city called Allegheny City. After five mediocre seasons in the A. A, Pittsburgh became the first A. A. team to switch to the older National League in 1887. At this time, the team renamed itself the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, at that time, owner-manager Horace Phillips sold the team to Dennis McKnight, Phillips stayed on as manager. In those early days, the club benefited three times from mergers with defunct clubs, the A. A. club picked up a number of players from a defunct Columbus, Ohio, team in 1885. The Alleghenys were severely crippled during the 1890 season, when all of their stars jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers of the Players League. With a decimated roster, the team experienced what is still the worst season in franchise history, the battle nearly ruined McKnight, and he was forced to return his franchise to the league. They were thus able to recover the services of most of the players who had jumped to the upstart league a year earlier. The new owners also signed highly regarded second baseman Lou Bierbauer, the Athletics failed to include him on their reserve list, and the Alleghenys picked him up. Nonetheless, this led to protests by the Athletics, and in an official complaint. This incident quickly accelerated into a schism between the leagues that contributed to the demise of the A. A, although the Alleghenys were never found guilty of wrongdoing, they made sport of being denounced for being piratical by renaming themselves the Pirates for the 1891 season. The nickname was first acknowledged on the uniforms in 1912. After the 1899 season, the Pirates made what is arguably the best player transaction in history when they picked up nearly all of the star players from the Louisville Colonels. Louisville owner Barney Dreyfuss had been told that the Colonels were slated for elimination when the N. L. contracted from 12 to 8 teams. He secretly purchased a half-interest in the Pirates, then after the season sent nearly all of the Colonels stars up the Ohio River to Pittsburgh. Since the transaction occurred before the Colonels officially folded, it was structured as a trade, despite their nickname, the Pirates at least waited until after the season to pull off this blockbuster trade
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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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1888 New York Giants season
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The 1888 New York Giants season was the franchises 6th season. Claiming six future Hall of Famers, the won the National League pennant by nine games. Keefe led the league in major statistical categories, including wins, winning percentage, strikeouts. Note, Pos = Position, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. = Batting average, HR = Home runs, RBI = Runs batted in Note, G = Games played, AB = At bats, H = Hits, Avg. Louis Browns in the World Series,1888 New York Giants season at Baseball Reference
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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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Hardie Henderson
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James Harding Hardie Henderson was Major League Baseball pitcher from 1883 to 1888. He played for the Philadelphia Quakers, Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Grays, and Pittsburg Alleghenys, Henderson was born on October 31,1862 in Philadelphia. Henderson made his professional debut in the League Alliance in 1882. He made his National League debut on May 2,1883 for the Philadelphia Quakers, the next day, he made his pitching debut against the Providence Grays. Henderson gave up 19 earned runs and 26 hits, and struck out two batters, Providence won the game 24-6, with Charles Radbourn getting the win. Later that month, he was acquired by the Baltimore Orioles, on May 29,1883, Henderson made his pitching debut for the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association. Henderson and the Orioles lost to the Louisville Colonels 11-3, in his first year with Baltimore, Henderson finished with a 10-32 win–loss record, a 4.02 earned run average, and 145 strikeouts. He continued playing for the Orioles in 1884 and 1885, in 1884, Henderson led the American Association in walks allowed with 116. He led Association in 1885 in losses with 35, hits allowed with 539, walks allowed with 117 and he began the 1886 season with Baltimore, pitching in 19 games, but joined the Brooklyn Grays midway through the season. Henderson made his Brooklyn pitching debut on August 19,1886 against the New York Metropolitans and he would pitch in 14 total games for Brooklyn in 1886, finishing with a 10-4 record and a 2.90 earned run average. Brooklyn finished in place in the American Association that season. Henderson would play the 1887 season in Brooklyn, but he was acquired by the Pittsburg Alleghenys for 1888 and he would not play in the major league again. He finished with an 81-121 win-loss record, a 3.50 earned run average, and 930 strikeouts. Over Hendersons 230 major league games,210 of them were as a pitcher,16 of them as an outfielder, two as a shortstop, and one as a second baseman and third baseman. After not playing at any level in 1889, Henderson returned to baseball in 1890, playing for Sioux City in the minor league Western League, in parts of three seasons, Henderson was used as a major league umpire. First, on June 16,1889, he umpired an American Association game, later, in 1895, he umpired 11 National League games. The next season, he umpired 51 NL games, the final of which was on September 12,1896, on February 6,1903, Henderson died at the age of 40 in Philadelphia, when he was run over by a train trolley. He was buried in Fernwood Cemetery in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Baseball Almanac
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Phil Knell
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Philip Louis Knell was a Major League Baseball pitcher between 1888 and 1895. He broke into the big leagues in June 1888, with the Pittsburg Alleghenys, Knell finished his career with a 79–90 record and 4.05 ERA. Although his career was short, Knell still remains #28 on the list of most batters hit by a pitch by any major league pitcher
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Ed Morris (1880s pitcher)
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Edward Morris, nicknamed Cannonball, was a 19th-century Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Columbus Buckeyes, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, and Pittsburgh Burghers and he has been described as the first great lefthanded pitcher in major league baseball. A native of Brooklyn, New York, the left-hander stood 5 ft 7 in, on May 29,1884 he pitched a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, winning 5–0. He was purchased by the Alleghenys from the Buckeyes five months later, Morris finished in his leagues top ten several times for many pitching categories, including wins, earned run average, strikeouts, and shutouts. In 1886 he led the American Association with 41 wins and 12 shutouts, career totals for 317 games played include a 171–122 record,307 games started,297 complete games,29 shutouts,4 games finished, and 1 save. At the plate he was 179-for-1,113 with 1 home run,63 runs batted in, author David Nemec described Morris as the first truly outstanding southpaw pitcher in major league history. Morris died from an infection that began in an injured toe
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Fred Carroll
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Frederick Herbert Carroll was a catcher and outfielder in Major League Baseball. From 1884 through 1891, he played with the Columbus Buckeyes and for the Pittsburgh teams Alleghenys, Burghers and he was born in Sacramento, California. In an eight-season Major League career, Carroll posted a.284 batting average with 27 home runs and 366 RBI in 754 games played, in 1886 Carroll compiled career-high numbers in hits and doubles while batting.288 with 92 runs and 64 RBI. The next season he went.328,71,54, in August 1886, Carroll was briefly suspended after fighting with a teammate, first baseman Otto Schomberg. Schomberg was unpopular with his teammates, and the fight started after Carroll referred to him with what The Sporting News subsequently termed vile names, the pair were separated by Frank Ringo and Ed Glenn, and while Carroll was immediately suspended, the suspension was short-lived. The directors of the Pittsburg Alleghenys convened a meeting that night, on May 2,1887 Carroll became the first Pittsburgh player to hit for the cycle. Carroll died in San Rafael, California, at age 40, bill James wrote in his book Baseball Abstract that Carroll was the best young catcher before Johnny Bench. A victim of the 1890s Brotherhood, he also was a competent outfielder and played shortstop, first base, James also remarks that Carrolls major league career was shortened by his dislike of living on the East Coast. Carroll holds a major league record for age 24 in OPS with a.970 mark. The same season, he posted a career-high.330 BA, an above-average runner with good instincts, he compiled 137 stolen bases in his career. The stadium stood at the corner of North, Grant, and Pennsylvania Avenues on Pittsburghs Northside
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Jake Beckley
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Jacob Peter Beckley, nicknamed Eagle Eye, was a Major League Baseball player at the turn of the 20th century. He played for major league teams between 1888 and 1907. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1971, Beckley was born in Hannibal, Missouri. He was the son of Bernhart and Rosina Beckley, Beckley began playing semi-pro baseball while still a teenager. A former Hannibal teammate, Bob Hart, suggested the 18-year-old Beckley to the Leavenworth Oilers of the Western Association. After playing one and a half seasons for the Alleghenys, Beckley and eight of his teammates jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers, manager Ned Hanlon crossed over as well. Beckley stated he was willing to go to the PL because after all, the league lasted only one season, and Beckley spent the next five and a half seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. His days in Pittsburgh finished, on July 25,1896, Beckley was traded to the New York Giants for Harry Davis, Beckley was released by the Giants the following season on May 22, and he signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Reds five days later. In his first season with the Reds, Beckley was unsuccessful in getting rookie Honus Wagner out with the ball trick. But later when Wagners Louisville Colonels came to play at Cincinnati, Beckley was successful in getting Wagner out, employing a strategy that involved the use of two baseballs. Against the St. Louis Cardinals, Beckley belted three home runs in the game on September 26,1897, a feat not again matched until 1922 by Ken Williams. He played with Cincinnati for seven seasons and was purchased by the St. Louis on February 11,1904. Beckley retired after the 1907 season with 2,930 career hits and he continues to rank fourth all-time among major leaguers in triples with 244. As of the 2014 season, Beckley holds the all-time best batting average amongst Pirates first basemen, Beckley married Molly Murphy of Hannibal in 1891. She died of tuberculosis a few months after their wedding and he served as an umpire in the Federal League in 1913 and also served as a baseball coach at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. In addition to his umpiring and coaching after retirement from professional play and he died of heart disease in Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 50. He was interred at the Riverside Cemetery in Hannibal, elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. Member of Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Fame, elected into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2014 First all-time, Career putouts
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Elmer Cleveland
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Elmer Ellsworth Cleveland was a 19th-century baseball third baseman. He began his professional with the Western Interstate League in 1883 and he played in 29 games with the Reds and hit.322. From 1885–1887 he was back in the minors with the Southern League and he returned to the Majors in 1888 with the New York Giants and Pittsburg Alleghenys of the National League. After two seasons with Omaha of the Western Association, he played in the American Association with the Columbus Solons and he ended his career in the Pennsylvania State League in 1892. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Fred Dunlap
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Sure Shot Dunlap was a second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball from 1880 to 1891. He was the highest paid player in Major League Baseball from 1884 to 1889 and he has also been rated by some contemporary and modern sources as the greatest overall second baseman of the 19th century. He earned the nickname Sure Shot for the strength and accuracy of his throws to first base and he played for the Cleveland Blues from 1880 to 1883, where he secured his reputation as one of the best players in the game. As a rookie in 1880, he led the National League in doubles, while playing for Cleveland, he also compiled batting averages of.325 and.326 in 1881 and 1883 and led the league in assists by a second baseman and range factor. When the Union Association was formed in 1884, Dunlap was lured to play for the St. Louis Maroons where he became the highest paid player in baseball. His.412 batting average in 1884 was the highest ever recorded to that time in Major League Baseball and 56 points higher than any player in the major leagues in 1884 due to the lack of talent. After three years in St. Louis, Dunlap was sold to the Detroit Wolverines and helped that team win the 1887 National League pennant, Dunlaps baseball career ended in 1891 when he broke his leg sliding into a base. He went into the business and bet on the horses in the 1890s. By 1902, Dunlap was penniless and living in a boarding house. He died of consumption of the bowels in December 1902, Dunlap was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1859. Both of his parents died when he was age 10, Dunlap did not attend school after his parents died and spent his youth playing baseball. Lacking formal education, Dunlap remained illiterate throughout his life, Dunlap began playing semi-pro baseball at age 15 in 1874 for the Gloucester Club in Gloucester City, New Jersey. In 1875, he started the season with the Greighers of Camden, New Jersey and he played for Chester at the start of the 1876 season before joining the Quicksteps of Wilmington, Delaware, as a pitcher. In 1877, he began playing baseball as a second baseman for the Auburns of Auburn. In 1878, he played for teams in Hornellsville and Albany and he remained with Albany in 1879. In May 1880, Dunlap began a 12-year career in Major League Baseball with the Cleveland Blues, in his first season, Dunlap immediately established himself as one of the games best players. For the 1880 season, Dunlap led the National League in doubles and ranked second in extra base hits and he also made a strong debut on defense, leading the National League in assists by a second baseman. Dunlap remained with the Cleveland Blues for four seasons and consistently ranked as one of the leading hitters and defensive second basemen in the National League
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Bill Kuehne
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Listed at 58,185 lb. Kuehne batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Leipzig, which was part of the German Confederation, basically a third baseman, Kuehne was able to play all positions but pitcher and catcher. He enjoyed his best years with the Pittsburgh teams, hitting.299 in 1887 as he led the National League with 138 games played in 1888, from 1883 to 1888 he averaged 15.33 triples per season, with a career-high 19 in 1895. Then, in 1892, he played for the Colonels, Browns, technically, thats three clubs, but he did have two separate stints with the Browns, becoming one of few Major Leaguers to achieve this rare distinction. In a 10-season career, Kuehne was a.232 hitter with 25 home runs and 404 RBI in 1087 games, including 536 runs,145 doubles,115 triples, Kuehne died in Sulphur Springs, Ohio, three days after his 63rd birthday
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Al Maul
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Albert Joseph Smiling Al Maul was a professional baseball player. He led the National League in earned run average in 1895 while playing for Washington, for his career, he compiled an 84–80 record in 188 appearances, with a 4.43 ERA and 346 strikeouts. Maul was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died there at the age of 92, list of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Al Maul
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Pop Smith
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Charles Marv Pop Smith was a Canadian Major League Baseball player from Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. Pop played as an infielder for ten different teams over his 12-year career, on April 17,1890, Smith became the first player to come up to the plate 6 times and not have an official-at-bat. He received 5 walks and was a hit by the pitcher in the remaining at-bat, Smith died in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 70, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Brighton, Massachusetts. In 2005, Charles Pop Smith was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
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Cliff Carroll
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Samuel Clifford Carroll was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He played professionally for the Providence Grays, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Washington Senators, Chicago Colts, St. Louis Browns, Carroll was born in Clay Grove, Iowa. He played his first professional game on August 3,1882, Carroll played professionally for eleven seasons from 1882 to 1893. He stopped playing professionally in 1889 to be a farmer, but missed playing baseball and that season he achieved career highs in three offensive and three defensive categories. Carroll stopped playing in the majors in 1893, Carroll died at the age of 63 in Portland, Oregon, and is interred at Lincoln Memorial Park
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John Coleman (outfielder/pitcher)
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John Francis Coleman was an American professional baseball player. From 1883 through 1890, Coleman played for the Philadelphia Quakers, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, remarkably, in his rookie season, he pitched in 65 games, but accumulated a record of only 12-48. He appeared in another 32 games as an outfielder and second baseman, as of 2010, his 48 losses,772 hits given up,510 runs allowed, and 291 earned runs allowed over that 98-game season remain single-season major-league records. These records stand out by large margins, as his nearest contenders are Will White with 42 losses and 404 runs allowed, Ted Breitenstein with 238 earned runs and his difference between wins and losses,36, is also the largest ever, dwarfing George Cobbs 27. His 61 games started,59 complete games, and 538⅓ innings pitched remain Phillies single-season records as well, after that season, Coleman played mainly as an outfielder, but occasionally filled in at first and second bases and on the pitchers mound. His career pitching record was 23-72, and his batting average was.257. Coleman died after being hit by an automobile in Detroit, Michigan, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
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Abner Dalrymple
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Abner Frank Dalrymple was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who hit 43 home runs and batted.288 during his 12-season career spent primarily with the Chicago White Stockings. Born in Gratiot, Wisconsin, he played for the Milwaukee Grays, White Stockings, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Dalrymple started his major league career in 1878 with the National Leagues Milwaukee Grays, and that season, he had a career-high.354 batting average. He spent the eight seasons with the Chicago White Stockings. In 1880, Dalrymple led the league in hits and runs scored, in 1881, he became the first batter known to be given an intentional walk with the bases loaded. He hit four doubles in a game in 1883, which ties him for the major league record. In 1884, aided by the right field fence at his home park, Dalrymple hit a career-high 22 home runs. On the strength of 11 home runs for the 1885 champions, for the remainder of his career, he hit only six home runs. His hitting declined in 1886, and his league career ended five years later. Dalrymple died in Warren, Illinois at age 81
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Jocko Fields
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John Joseph Jocko Fields is a former Major League Baseball player. He was born on October 20,1864 in Cork, Ireland, Jocko made his Major League debut on May 31,1887. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Burghers, Philadelphia Phillies, Fields played 341 games in the majors, with 358 hits in 1,319 at bats. He had an average of.271. He had 12 home runs and 176 RBI, Fields died on October 14,1950 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball-Reference
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Billy Sunday
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Born into poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some years at the Iowa Soldiers Orphans Home before working at odd jobs and playing for local running and baseball teams. His speed and agility provided him the opportunity to play baseball in the leagues for eight years, where he was an average hitter. Converting to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian ministry, Sunday held widely reported campaigns in Americas largest cities, and he attracted the largest crowds of any evangelist before the advent of electronic sound systems. He also made a deal of money and was welcomed into the homes of the wealthy. Sunday was a supporter of Prohibition, and his preaching likely played a significant role in the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919. Despite questions about his income, no scandal ever touched Sunday and he was sincerely devoted to his wife, who also managed his campaigns, but his three sons disappointed him. His audiences grew smaller during the 1920s as Sunday grew older, religious revivals became less popular, nevertheless, Sunday continued to preach and remained a stalwart defender of conservative Christianity until his death. Billy Sunday was born near Ames, Iowa and his father was the son of German immigrants named Sonntag, who anglicized their name to Sunday when they settled in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. William Sunday was a bricklayer who worked his way to Iowa, where he married Mary Jane Corey, daughter of Squire Martin Corey, a farmer, miller, blacksmith. William Sunday enlisted in the Iowa Twenty-Third Volunteer Infantry on August 14,1862 and he died four months later of pneumonia at an army camp in Patterson, Missouri, five weeks after the birth of his youngest son, William Ashley. Mary Jane Sunday and her children moved in with her parents for a few years, Mary Jane Sunday later remarried, but her second husband soon deserted the family. At the orphanage, Sunday gained orderly habits, a decent primary education, by fourteen, Sunday was shifting for himself. In Nevada, Iowa, he worked for Colonel John Scott, the Scotts provided Sunday a good home and the opportunity to attend Nevada High School. Although Sunday never received a school diploma, by 1880 he was better educated than many of his contemporaries. In 1880, Sunday relocated to Marshalltown, Iowa, where, because of his athleticism, in Marshalltown, Sunday worked at odd jobs, competed in fire brigade tournaments, and played for the town baseball team. In 1882, with Sunday in left field, the Marshalltown team defeated the state champion Des Moines team 13–4, in 1883, on Ansons recommendation, A. G. Spalding, president of the Chicago White Stockings, signed Sunday to the defending National League champions. Sunday struck out four times in his first game, and there were seven more strikeouts, during his first four seasons with Chicago, he was a part-time player, taking Mike King Kellys place in right field when Kelly served as catcher. Sundays speed was his greatest asset, and he displayed it on the basepaths, in 1885, the White Stockings arranged a race between Sunday and Arlie Latham, the fastest runner in the American Association
