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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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Eastern Park
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Eastern Park was a baseball park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York in the 1890s. It was bounded by Eastern Parkway to the north, the Long Island Rail Road and Vesta Avenue to the east, Sutter Avenue to the south and it was originally the home of the Brooklyn Wards Wonders of the Players League in 1890. Some sources erroneously say that it is here that the nickname Trolley Dodgers, later shortened to Dodgers, first arose, there were no trolley lines near Eastern Park at the time. Eastern Park was considered difficult to reach, and although the team survived there for seven seasons, the venture there was a failure. When Charlie Ebbets acquired the Dodgers, he moved the back, to the second version of Washington Park. The park also hosted college and amateur football games during its heyday. There was also a track installed, and both bicycling and running races were held from time to time and it was also the home venue of the short-lived Brooklyn Bridegrooms Soccer Team in 1894. This was a spin-off of the Baseball Franchise that took part in an attempt by six baseball franchises to fill their stadiums in the off season by running a soccer league. Brooklyn were top of the league when the season was cancelled. A website with history and diagrams of Eastern Park Football Games at Eastern Park Ebbets-Field. com
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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Charlie Byrne (baseball)
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Charles H. Byrne was a New York realtor who was one of the original founders of the team that became the Brooklyn Dodgers. Byrne was a graduate of St. Francis Xavier College, and they leased land on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn to build Washington Park, the teams original home, which cost $30,000. In its first year, the played in the minor-league Inter-State Association of Professional Baseball Clubs. Having attracted a following, the moved the franchise in 1884 to the American Association, a competitor to the more established National League. After managing the team from 1885-1887, Byrne saw the franchise join the National League in 1890, under his tenure, the team, known variously as the Grays, Grooms, Bridegrooms and Dodgers, posted a record of 567-506 and won two league championships. Byrne was in ill health at the time of the National League meeting in November 1897, but he insisted on making the journey from Virginia, after the meeting concluded, his health took a turn for the worse, from which he never recovered. Byrne was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, Queens, New York,120 Years of Dodgers history Charlie Byrne managerial career statistics at Baseball-Reference. com
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Ferdinand Abell
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Gus Abell was one of the original founders of the team that became the Brooklyn Dodgers. A Rhode Island casino owner, he put up most of the money to form the team in 1883 and also was the financing behind the building of Washington Park. He stuck primarily to the side of the franchise, letting his partners Charlie Byrne, George Taylor. He was the force behind the Dodgers merger with the original Baltimore Orioles in 1898. He remained part of the Dodgers ownership group until he was out by Charles Ebbets in 1907. Baseball Library Dodgers. com ownership history The birth of the Dodgers Dodgers History
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Dave Foutz
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David Luther Foutz was a Major League Baseball player for 13 seasons. He played multiple positions, including pitcher, from 1884 to 1896, compiling a 147–66 career record, as well as first base, from 1893 to 1896, he was the player-manager of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. David Luther Foutz was born in Carroll County, Maryland on September 7,1856, always known as Dave, he was asthmatic all his life. When he was 21 Foutz drifted out to Leadville, Colorado, while in Leadville, Foutz started playing baseball, pitching for the Leadville Blues, an amateur team. Shortly after, he signed with the Bay City, Michigan minor league team, by 1884, Foutzs talent had been spotted by Chris von der Ahe, the owner of the American Association St. Louis Browns. He wanted Foutzs contract so badly he bought the entire Bay City, before joining the major league, Foutz acquired a reputation as a gambler and drinker, figuring if he was going to die young, he would enjoy himself before. As a player, Dave Foutz was often called Scissors and other nicknames, due to his tall and his first six seasons in the major leagues were spent in the American Association with the St. Louis Browns, all the while suffering from asthma. With the Browns he became their powerhouse right hander who pitched St. Louis to four straight American Association pennants. Along the way, Foutz built up a record and on April 10,1885, in an exhibition game, Foutz pitched a no-hitter to defeat the St. Louis Maroons. Later on June 3,1886, Foutz pitched a shutout against Brooklyn in what became a 19-0 rout. But on August 14,1887 while pitching against the Cincinnati Reds for St. Louis, Foutz was hit by a ball, sidelined for nine weeks, when Foutz eventually returned to pitching‚ he was ineffective and his pitching career was virtually ended. While he was pitching, Foutz won 114 games over a span from 1884–1887. He ended up with a 147-66 record, which is a.690 percentage and is tied for third-best ever, the sale was to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms and their owner, Charlie Byrne who paid, what was then, the enormous sum of $19,000 for the trio. After the injury, Foutz pitched little for Brooklyn but helped the team to the 1889 American Association pennant, in both seasons, he was the regular first baseman. Later for four seasons, Foutz was a manager, but Brooklyn never finished higher than fifth. Foutz is still remembered for one play, that probably occurred in the game on September 3,1886. He was playing for the St. Louis Browns, who were facing the Louisville Colonels, apparently orchestrated by a signal from Albert Doc Bushong, catcher, with Charles Comiskey playing first base. On base, the runners for the Louisville Colonels were Pete Browning on first, sundays game between St. Louis Louisville, and in the presence of 6,000 persons, Foutz played the sharpest trick ever seen on the ball field
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History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
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The teams name derived from the reputed skill of Brooklyn residents at evading the citys trolley streetcar network. The team is noted for signing Jackie Robinson in 1947 as the first black player in the major leagues. Brooklyn was home to numerous clubs in the mid-1850s. Eight of 16 participants in the first convention were from Brooklyn, including the Atlantic, Eckford, Brooklyn helped make baseball commercial, as the locale of the first paid admission games, a series of three all star contests matching New York and Brooklyn in 1858. The Excelsiors no longer challenged for the championship after the Civil War. The Eckfords and Atlantics declined to join until 1872 and thereby lost their best players, the Eckfords survived only one season and the Atlantics four, with losing teams. When the Mutuals were expelled by the league, the Hartford Dark Blues club moved in, changed its name to The Brooklyn Hartfords and played its home games at Union Grounds in 1877 before disbanding. Byrne arranged to build a grandstand on a lot bounded by Third Street, Fourth Avenue, Fifth Street, and Fifth Avenue, the Grays played in the minor Inter-State Association of Professional Baseball Clubs that first season. Doyle became the first team manager, and they drew 6,431 fans to their first home game on May 12,1883 against the Trenton team. The Grays won the title after the Camden Merritt club disbanded on July 20. The Grays were invited to join the American Association for the 1884 season and they lost the 1889 World Series to the New York Giants and tied the 1890 World Series with the Louisville Colonels. Their success during this period was partly attributed to their having absorbed skilled players from the defunct New York Metropolitans, in 1899, the Grays merged with the Baltimore Orioles, as Baltimore manager Ned Hanlon became the clubs new manager and Charles Ebbets became the primary team owner. The team name, Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, was coined in 1895, the nickname was still new enough in September 1895 that a newspaper could report that Trolley Dodgers is the new name which eastern baseball cranks have given the Brooklyn club. Some sources erroneously report that the name Trolley Dodgers referred to pedestrians avoiding fast cars on street car tracks that bordered Eastern Park on two sides, however, Eastern Park was not bordered by street-level trolley lines that had to be dodged by pedestrians. The name was shortened to Brooklyn Dodgers. Other team names used by the franchise that finally came to be called the Dodgers were the Grooms, the Bridegrooms, Wards Wonders, the Superbas, and the Robins. All of these nicknames were used by fans and newspaper sports writers to describe the team, the teams legal name was the Brooklyn Base Ball Club. However, the Trolley Dodgers nickname was used throughout this period, along with nicknames, by fans
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Tom Kinslow
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Thomas F. Kinslow was a professional baseball player who played catcher in Major League Baseball from 1886 until 1898. He played for eight teams in his ten-season career, four of those seasons were with Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the National League. During his playing days, his height was listed at 5-foot-10-inch, his weight as 160-pound, he batted and threw right-handed, and had blonde hair. He was a member of the Washington Light Infantry, a local Washington, D. C. militia, when not playing, he tended to his bar. Noted for being a genial, friendly individual, he was quick to make friends, Kinslow was a heavy drinker however, which caused him to miss games and team movements on occasion. Late into his career, these issues were much less tolerated. He died at the age of 35, after a battle with tuberculosis. Thomas Kinslow was born on January 12,1866 in Washington, D. C. his father Michael worked as a laborer and he began playing amateur baseball in the citys first ward on a team known as the Quicks, as well as a team named the Falcons. He later became a member of the Washington Light Infantry, Company C, a militia, and played as their catcher against the 5th Maryland Regiment on June 29,1885. Kinslow made his MLB debut with the Washington Nationals of the NL on June 4,1886 as their starting catcher and he injured his finger in the third inning trying to catch a bad pitch thrown by Bob Barr, and had to leave the game. On June 15, he was injured by a Barr pitch. He played in three games for the Nationals in 1886, collecting two hits in eight at bats, soon, the deal was put on hold by the NL, as the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association also claimed they had a deal in place for these players. On September 6, a board for the NL and AA leagues convened to render their findings. They found that Detroits contract with the players was dated on July 20, which superseded Cincinnatis contract that was signed on July 27, Detroit then sold their contracts with the players to the London Tecumsehs of the International Association. Though he did not play for London in 1887, he did play in two games for the New York Metropolitans of the AA, going hitless in eight at bats. Kinslow played the two seasons for the Tecumsehs, and had a batting average of.200 in 1888. In 1890, a new league was created, the Players League, during the season, he had a batting average of.264, and caught 64 games. On June 28, he hit the first home run of his career in a game against Henry Gruber and the Cleveland Infants
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Pittsburgh Pirates
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The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball as a club of the National League Central division. Founded on October 15,1881 as Allegheny, the franchise has won five World Series championships, the Pirates are also often referred to as the Bucs or the Buccos. They also won the 1971 World Series, led by the talent of Roberto Clemente, overall, the Pirates have won five World Series and lost two. They would then advance to the NL Division Series round, where they lost in 5 games to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Pirates would continue their success and make the playoffs in both 2014 and 2015, losing in the Wild Card Game both times. 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. On October 15,1881, the strongest team in the joined the American Association as a founding member to begin play in 1882. 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. Before the 1890 season, nearly all of the Alleghenys best players bolted to the Players Leagues Pittsburgh Burghers, the Players League collapsed after the season, and the players were allowed to go back to their old clubs. However, the Alleghenys also scooped up highly regarded second baseman Lou Bierbauer, although the Athletics had failed to include Bierbauer on their reserve list, they loudly protested the Alleghenys move. In an official complaint, an AA official claimed the Alleghenys signing of Bierbauer was piratical and 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 teams uniforms in 1912. The Pirates were a team in the early 1900s, winning National League pennants from 1901–1903. They again won the NL in 1925 and 1927 and the World Series in 1925, after a slow period, they returned to dominance and won the 1960 World Series,1971 World Series and 1979 World Series. They won Eastern Division titles from 1990–1992 but did not return to the post-season after that until 2013, on Opening Day 2015 the Pirates loss to the Cincinnati Reds represented its 10, 000th franchise loss since moving to the NL. This made the Pirates the fourth MLB team to achieve distinction, following the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves
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Ad Gumbert
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Addison Courtney Gumbert was a pitcher for Major League Baseball in the 19th century. His brother Billy Gumbert and great nephew Harry Gumbert were also Major League Baseball players, addison Gumbert was born on October 10,1867, or 1868, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Robert and Henrietta Gumbert. At the 1880 United States Census, Robert worked as a dispatcher, while Henrietta was unemployed, the family lived on Frankstown Avenue in the 21st Ward of Pittsburgh. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
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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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Bert Abbey
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Bert Wood Abbey was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Abbey first began playing baseball as a freshman in college when he recruited students to form the Vermont Catamounts team. At UVM, he made the baseball and training program progress fast with his presence as player, coach and he graduated in 1891 from UVM and the year after, Abbeys team at the University won almost every game they played including games against professional teams. After his graduation, Abbey was drafted by the Washington Senators where he pitched 14 games before being sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates and he was then sent down to the farm team in Macon, Georgia. In 1893, the Chicago Colts bought his services and he remained there until 1895 when he moved to the Brooklyn Grooms Abbey remained with the team for one more season and his last game was played on September 23,1896, in Montreal, Quebec. Abbey died at the age of 92 in Essex Junction, Vermont less than a year after suffering a heart attack and he is buried at the Mountain View Cemetery in Essex Junction. He was posthumously inducted into UVMs Athletic Hall of Fame in 1969, baseballs okay in college, but no place for a man with brain. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball-Reference Bert Abbey at Find a Grave
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Jack Cronin
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John J. Cronin was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played professionally from 1895 through 1912 and his MLB career included stints with the Brooklyn Grooms, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, New York Giants, and Brooklyn Superbas. Cronin began his career pitching in two games for the Hartford Bluebirds of the Connecticut State League in July 1895. He signed with the Brooklyn Grooms, appearing in two games before receiving his release in September. In May 1896, Cronin pitched for Pottsville of the Class-B Pennsylvania State League, before joining the New York Metropolitans of the Class-A Atlantic League, where he pitched from June through July. He signed with the Bangor Millionaires of the Maine State League in 1897 and he pitched for Fall River through July 8,1898, when he was purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League. Released from the Pirates, Cronin joined the Detroit Tigers, then in the Class-A Western League in 1899, on September 18,1899, the Cincinnati Reds of the purchased Cronin from Detroit. In April 1900, they returned Cronin to Detroit, now a member of the American League, Cronin was released by the Tigers on June 8,1902, and he signed with the Baltimore Orioles that same day. However, the Orioles struggled with debt, Joe Kelley, star player for the Orioles and son-in-law of part-owner John Mahon, reported that the team owed as much as $12,000. Unable to afford that debt, Mahon purchased shares of the team from Kelley, with this, Mahon became the majority shareholder, owning 201 of the teams 400 shares. On July 17,1902, Mahon sold his interest in the Orioles to Andrew Freedman, principal owner of the Giants of the NL, and John T. Brush, principal owner of the Cincinnati Reds, also of the NL. That day, Freedman released Cronin, Kelley, Dan McGann, Cy Seymour, Roger Bresnahan, Freedman signed Cronin, McGann, Bresnahan, and McGinnity and to the Giants, joining McGraw, who had signed with the Giants ten days earlier. Brush signed Seymour and Kelley to the Reds, after the 1903 season, on December 12,1903, the Giants traded Cronin with Charlie Babb and $6,000 to the Brooklyn Superbas for Bill Dahlen. Cronin pitched for the Superbas in 1904, released after the season, Cronin returned to minor league baseball. He signed with the Providence Clamdiggers, later known as the Providence Grays, of the Eastern League in 1905 and he then joined the Buffalo Bisons. In 1912, Cronin pitched for Reading of the outlaw United States Baseball League, career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Dan Daub
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Daniel William Daub was a 19th-century Major League Baseball pitcher born in Middletown, Ohio. After attending and playing baseball for Denison University, he played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1892 and with the Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms from 1893 through 1897. The New York Times reported on December 22,1895, that Dan was among approximately 20 men who stoned and fired shotguns, also known as whitecapping, upon the home of Mrs. Wescoe of Hamilton, Ohio. Daub, who passes his winters in Mintonville, Ohio, was also among those that had warrants issued for his arrest. After his playing career was over, Dan became the coach of the Ohio Wesleyan University baseball team and his replacement was a ballplayer named Branch Rickey, who was recently ruled ineligible to play college ball due to his prior professional baseball career. Daub died at the age of 83 in Bradenton, Florida, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs
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Brickyard Kennedy
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William Park Kennedy was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1892 through 1903, he played for the Brooklyn Grooms/Superbas, New York Giants and he was born in Bellaire, Ohio. In twelve seasons, Kennedy posted a 187–159 record with 797 strikeouts, Kennedy was a dominant pitcher in his first four seasons with Brooklyn, winning 25 games in 1893 and 24 in 1894. After averaging 17.5 victories in the four seasons. While pitching in 1901, he was bothered by arm problems and he signed with the New York Giants at the end of the season. In 1902, Kennedy made his first start with the Giants and pitched a shutout against his team, 6–0, on four hits. Then, he was purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates from the Giants, in 1903, Kennedy went 9–6 in 18 starts for the Pirates team that won the National League pennant. On his 35th birthday, Kennedy pitched in the first World Series, in Game Five, with Pittsburgh up three games to one, Kennedy faced Cy Young and the Boston Americans. Kennedy and Young each pitched five innings, until Honus Wagner committed two errors and Boston scored six runs. After giving up four runs in the seventh, Kennedy was replaced. Kennedy died from tuberculosis in his hometown of Bellaire, Ohio at age 47, career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference Baseball Library
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Ed Stein (baseball)
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Edward F. Stein was a Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Chicago Colts and Brooklyn Grooms/Bridegrooms of the National League from 1890 to 1898. Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, he began his league career with the Colts. The following season, Ed pitched in games, winning 7 of the 14 games he pitched that year, as the Colts again finished second. It was his time in Brooklyn where Ed enjoyed his greatest success and he made an immediate impact, winning 27 games that season, and 87 games total during his first four seasons in Brooklyn, including another 26 win season in 1894. On June 2,1894, Ed pitched a rain-shortened six inning no-hit game against the Beaneaters, do to subsequent rule changes since, it is not officially recognized as a no-hitter because he did not pitch at least nine innings. Stein was used as an umpire for four games in his career. The first was on July 24,1890, the second in 1894, and two more in 1896. In all of his games, he was the umpire on the field. Ed died in his hometown of Detroit at the age of 58, list of Major League Baseball career wins leaders Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference
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Tommy Corcoran (baseball)
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The 5 ft 9 in Connecticut native occasionally played second base later in his career. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Corcoran gained the nicknames Corky and he was considered a hard-working, supple-handed shortstop. A mediocre hitter, Corcoran batted.300 in a season just once and he was a barehanded fielder early in his career when gloves were gradually becoming standard equipment, and made the transition to a glove without difficulty. He became adept at going to his right to field ground balls backhanded, Corcoran set a still-standing ML record for shortstops with 14 assists in a nine-inning game. Corcoran finished in the top 10 in the league in at seven times. Over an 18-season career, Corcoran batted.256, with 34 home runs and 1,135 RBIs and he had a total of 387 stolen bases, scored 1,184 runs, and made 2,256 hits in 8,812 career at-bats. After retiring as a player, Corcoran became an umpire, his umpiring included one season in the third major circuit. Corcoran had four sons and a daughter and he died at the age of 91 in Plainfield, Connecticut
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Candy LaChance
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George Joseph LaChance was a first baseman who played in Major League Baseball between 1893 and 1905. LaChance was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed and he was born in Putnam, Connecticut. LaChance reached the majors in 1893, spending six years with the Brooklyn Grooms & Bridegrooms before moving to the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Blues and Boston Americans. He hit.300 or more five times, and from 1894 to 1899 averaged 25.67 stolen bases each year, in that season he also led the National League hitters with 108 RBI, while hitting.312 with 38 extra-bases and 99 runs. While in Boston in 1903, he was a member of the first World Champion team in league history. In a 12-season career, LaChance was a.280 hitter with 39 home runs and 690 RBI in 1263 games, later he played with Montreal and Providence in the International League and for Waterbury and New Haven in the Connecticut League. LaChance earned the nickname of Candy because he preferred to chew on peppermints rather than chewing tobacco, LaChance died in Waterville, Connecticut at the age of 62. List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders Baseball Library Baseball Reference The Deadball Era
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Joe Mulvey
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Joseph H. Mulvey was an American Major League Baseball third baseman from Providence, Rhode Island who played for 12 seasons from 1883 to 1895. He played for the Providence Grays, Philadelphia Quakers/Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, Washington Senators and he died in Philadelphia at the age of 69, and is interred at Magnolia Cemetery. Mulvey broke into the leagues with the Providence Grays of the National League in 1883. Overall, he played for 5 teams over a 13-year span and he played in a total of 4 games for the Grays at shortstop before being traded to the Philadelphia Quakers, where he played in another 3 games that season, after switching to third base. The following year, Mulvey began playing regularly for the Quakers and he would play regularly for Quakers/Phillies through the 1889 season. In 1890, following many other stars of the National League, he jumped to the Players League, when the Players League after a single season, the Athletics moved to the American Association, and Mulvey went with the team. The 1892 season saw Mulvey rejoining the Phillies, where he was now the back-up to Charlie Reilly, the following season saw him traded to the Washington Senators, where he split 3rd base duties with 3 other players, Duke Farrell, Cub Stricker, and Sam Wise. Mulvey did not play in the 1894 season, but he returned to baseball for the 1895 season, playing with the Brooklyn Grooms, for his career, Mulvey batted.261, with 28 home runs. According to his statistics, his best year was 1890 with the Philadelphia Athletics and he almost equaled his career bests for home runs and batting average that year as well. The most home runs he had in any one year was 6, with the Phillies in 1884 and 1889, and his best batting average was.289, also with the Phillies in 1889. Along with 5 other players, Mulvey still holds the record for most errors by a third baseman in a game,6. Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference Joe Mulvey at Find a Grave Portraits at NYPL Digital Archive
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Billy Shindle
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William D. Shindle batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Gloucester City, New Jersey and he was slightly built at 5 ft 8 in and 158 pounds. Shindles range factor of 4.34 in 1892 for the Baltimore Orioles is the highest rating recorded by a third baseman in the history of Major League Baseball. He also had range factors over 4.0 for Baltimore in 1888, while his range factor demonstrates his superior speed and ability to get to the ball, Shindle was not as talented at handling the balls once he got to them. In 1890, Shindle played shortstop for Philadelphia in the Players League and was charged with 122 errors, shindles 122 errors in 1890 are tied for the all-time record for most errors by a major league player at any position. Shindle was ranked as the 95th best third baseman of all time in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. In a 13-season career, Shindle was a.269 hitter in 1422 games, with 31 home runs,355 extra base hits,992 runs,758 RBI,226 doubles,97 triples, and 318 stolen bases. In 1890, Shindle batted a career-high.322, led the Players League with 282 total bases, Shindle played third base for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms from 1894 to 1898. His 3.7 lifetime Range factor makes him the one defensive third baseman in Dodgers history. In 1894, the 34-year-old Shindle hit.296 with 94 runs scored and 96 RBIs and he retired after the 1898 season at age 38. Shindle died in Lakeland, New Jersey at age 75, List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders List of Major League Baseball single-game hits leaders Baseball Reference Retrosheet
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John Anderson (outfielder)
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John Joseph Anderson was a Major League outfielder and first baseman. Nicknamed Honest John, Anderson played for six seasons in the National League from 1894 to 1899, Anderson was the first of only three Major League baseball players to have ever been born in the country. He first appeared in the National League in 1894, when he signed with the Brooklyn Grooms and he spent the next three full seasons with Brooklyn and was primarily used as an outfielder, and batted over.300 in both 1896 and 1897. During the 1898 season, he was sold to the Washington Senators, nevertheless, he managed to have one of his best seasons, leading the National League with 22 triples and also leading the league in slugging percentage and extra-base hits. Anderson stayed in Brooklyn for the 1899 before being purchased by the Milwaukee Brewers of the newly formed American League, Anderson was one of the leagues best hitters in the ALs first year as a Major League in 1901.330 average. He stayed with the franchise when it relocated to St. Louis in 1902 to become the Browns and he played two seasons in St. Louis and recorded virtually identical.284 batting averages in those years. On September 24,1903, Anderson tried to steal second base when the base was already occupied and he played one full season in New York and batted.278 with the club. He started the 1905 season in New York but was waived after a slow start, the Washington Senators claimed him off of waivers, and he recovered to bat.279 on the season, good enough for ninth in the AL in the midst of the dead-ball era. He remained in Washington for the two seasons. In 1906, Anderson tied for the American League lead in stolen bases with Elmer Flick and he left Washington after his contract was purchased by the Chicago White Sox for the 1908 season. He played for one season with the Pale Hose to end his career in the Major Leagues, Anderson retired with a.290 career average,49 home runs, and 976 runs batted in. He also finished his career with 124 triples, currently tying him for 90th place all-time in that category and he died at the age of 74 in Worcester, Massachusetts. com
