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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
