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THE GREAT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NINETEENTH CENTURY

THE GREAT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF

NINETEENTH CENTURY MAIOR LEAGUE

18 Leh 185 13 i Va Ue

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THE ANNUAL RECORD

The Nationa! Association Era (1871-75)

The Hulbert Era (1876-81)

The Rebel Leagues Era (1882-91)

The League-Association Era (1892-1900)

Many baseball historians, researchers, editors and publishers furnished me with information and guidance that 1am pleased to acknowledge To all of them I extend my deepest appreciation

1 thank Ken Samelson, former editor of the Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia, and Pete

Palmer, coeditor of The Baseball Encyclopedia, for providing me with much of the nineteenth century statistical data used by their respective publications as well as for patiently responding

to my many questions regarding disputed individual and team pitching, batting and fielding totals I also thank Morris Eckhouse, the former executive director of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), and the National Association Box Score Project for the Nineteenth Century Research Committee of SABR for generously allowing me to use the amended 1871-75 National Association statistics the Project generated

A number of other SABR committee chairpersons and members rendered their assistance during the preparation of this book, most notably Bill Carle, chairperson of the Biographical Committee; Paul Wendt, chairperson of the Nineteenth Century Committee; Lyle Spatz, chair- person of the Records Committee; and Carlos Bauer, former chairperson of the Minor League Committee To the many members of their respective committees who helped to run to ground the information utilized in their invaluable committee newsletters | extend a special note of gratitude

Grateful acknowledgment is also made to the following researchers and historians for their expert assistance and guidance Bob Tiemann, Ray Nemec and Bob Hoie drew upon their ex- haustive research to compile the 1900 data for the American League, and Ray Nemec also con- tributed other minor league data that was used in this book Peter Morris and Richard Malatzky unearthed the majority of the missing player birth and death dates that have been discovered since the original edition of this book was published in 1997 Frank Vaccaro kindly shared with

me the nineteenth century seasons from his AH Games Baseball, a monumental work in prog- ress, and David Ball did likewise with his pioneering research on nineteenth century trades Frank Williams painstakingly shared the findings of his groundbreaking work on pitching rec- ords to help steer me to plausible solutions for almost all of the multitude of disputed century

individual season and career pitching totals, and Joe Wayman, Bill Deane and Walt Wilson also

provided me with the fruits of their extensive research in this area Harry Higham helped me with player movernent in the National Association era and also with photo identification Scot

vill ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Mondore of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library was always ready whenever I needed information about a particular game or player Reed Howard helped me in tracking the minor league career paths of many players

lam profoundly indebted to Dick Thompson for furnishing me with a wealth of informa- tion on nineteenth century players, especially from the New England area | am also indebted

to the late Tom Shea, who left his own priceless research efforts in Dick’s charge

I would once again like to thank Bob Tiemann for using his matchless expertise to serve as the fact checker for The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball Bob, in addition, helped mightily in pinning down ballpark names and accurate home and road statistics

Mark Rucker of Transcendental Graphics provided most of the pictures in The Great En- cyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball Having worked with Mark before, I knew he would produce a bounty of rare and exciting images, and once again he exceeded ex- pectations Many of the pictures from his collection are new to me and, I would expect, to most readers as well | also happily thank Joseph Santry, Tom Hill and Philip Von Borries for allowing

me to use numerous pictorial treasures from their private collections

† am particularly grateful to Tom Burke, my former editor at Donald I Fine, and to the staff

at The University of Alabama Press

On a personal note, [ thank Scott Flatow and Al Blumkin for their steadfast interest and en-

thusiasm Pamela Strong, the late Tony Salin, Dorothy McMurray, Marilyn Foster Nemec, and Carol Stack also offered support and encouragement when it was needed

The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball bears no formal dedi- cation because so many people were its source of inspiration It is to men like Lee Allen, Tom Shea, Ernest Lanigan, Charles Mears and John Tattersall that the greatest debt is owed This book, then, is a testimony to the many baseball historians whose countless hours of research and unflagging attention to detail opened the way for it.

In the brief twenty-year span between the early 1840s and the Civil War, baseball evolved from

a game with many variants that was played almost exclusively by children to an organized sport with standardized rules By the end of the 1860s baseball had matured to a degree that it was no longer merely a sport but for many men had become a profession Though amateurism was still the order of the day, it was often a sham Star players were either paid under the table or given lucrative jobs that demanded little or no work for employers who also had a financial interest

in the local ball club

The first team to abandon all pretense of amateurism was the Cincinnati Red Stockings Organized by Harry Wright with financial help from Aaron Champion, Cincinnati openly acknowledged in 1869 that all of its team members were paid a regular salary strictly to play baseball When the Red Stockings went undefeated for the entire 1869 season, they transformed the approach to the game taken by practically every team that played them with aspirations of winning Less than two years after Cincinnati’s juggernaut demonstrated that amateur clubs could no longer hope to compete with professionals, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, the first professional sports league in our nation’s history, was born

Many excellent books have told the story of baseball’s evolution from a simple game in the 1840s to its swiftly escalated status less than two decades later as our national pastime The in- tention here is narrower and at the same time unique In The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball our air is to serve as the first comprehensive reference work devoted exclusively to the 30-year period between 1871 and 1900 that began with the appear- ance of the first professional league, the National Association, and ended with the last year of the century and, by happy coincidence, the final season that the game had only one recognized major league, the National League To meet that objective we offer five features that have never before appeared in book form, let alone in one volume:

1 Complete player and manager rosters for every major league team between 1871 and 1900, accompanied

by individual batting, fielding and pitching statistics and the name of the park where the team played most of its home games

2 Complete position workups for every major league team between 1871 and 1900, showing how many games each team member played at a given position.

INTRODUCTION

century with players organized in subregisters according to the primary positions they played and their vital statistics provided, when known, along with their central career batting and pitching statistics

4, A complete alphabetical register of every major league manager in the nineteenth century

organized by leagues

To add to the mix of flavors, The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball is designed as if it had been compiled at the turn of the twentieth century Conse- quently the career statistics in player, manager and umpire registers are complete only through the 1900 season At that juncture Cy Young already had nearly 300 wins and Ed Delahanty had more than 2,000 hits But while their career totals by 1900 certified that they would surely take their places among the game’s greatest players, men such as Nap Lajoie and Honus Wagner still possessed relatively modest totals that offered only a hint of their eventual towering achieve- ments, and Christy Mathewson had yet to earn his first major league win

Only in the annual reports and the sidebar items does the future intrude Yet while we might break the fantasy momentarily that the world was poised on the brink of the twentieth century when this book was put together, our goal remains to capture the look and the feel of the way baseball was played in the late 1800s

In any event, we want you to have a good time and to make some exciting discoveries as you look through The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball Even if you already know a fair amount about the first 30 years of major league play, you are still guaran- teed to find plenty of new information Above all else, you now have in one volume nineteenth century team rosters and player registers together with a bounty of charts, lists, photographs and stories that are appearing here for the first time anywhere We hope that you have as much fun with this book as we had putting it together.

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NINETEENTH CENTURY MAIOR LEAGUE

18 Leh 185 13 i Va Ue

In June 1953 T took a chunk of the money Pd saved from my Cleveland Plain Dealer route and

bought a copy of Hy Turkin and S.C Thompson’s The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball | knew

it for the treasure it was almost the moment I began digging into it, but by the end of that sum-

mer I'd also begun to feel a slight sense of dissatisfaction

It wasn’t so much that each player's season and career statistics were confined to his posi-

tion, his batting average and the number of games he had played, although that certainly left

me wishing for more But what really gnawed at me was that I could get almost no picture

from Turkin and Thompson’s book of the great teams throughout baseball history and, specifi-

cally, who played for them Oh, I knew the starting nine for the 1927 New York Yankees, and of

course I knew my champion 1948 Cleveland Indians down to the most obscure substitute, but

T yearned for an encyclopedia that would assemble for me in their entirety the 1884 Providence

Grays, the 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 1940 Cincinnati Reds-—to say nothing of all the Federal

League and National Association teams with great names like the Brooklyn Tip Tops and the

Elizabeth Resolutes

It took me until the winter of 1955 to recognize that if I wanted those team rosters, I was go-

ing to have to create them myself And as long as I was at it, I decided to go the whole nine yards

and draw up a complete roster for every major league team from 1871 through 1950, where

Turkin and Thompson left off in their encyclopedia’s first edition So | hunkered down in my

bedroom with a stack of 3 x 5 cards and got to work Using the alphabetical register of players

in the encyclopedia, I started with the first name, Abadie, John, and headed the top card in my

pile 1875 Centennial, Abadie’s initial major league team

Right away I realized that ’d undertaken one mammoth project, and there were many days

when I was on the brink of quitting, but somehow I kept pushing ahead My grades in school

hit bottom that winter, my social life was zero, but it was worth it By blowing every spare mo-

ment I had, I managed to plow through the whole encyclopedia by March 1956, and finally one

evening [ arrived at Zwilling, Edward Harrison and the end of my long, long road

I still have those hundreds of 3 x 5 cards I dug them out from the cigar box where they were

stored in the fall of 1969 when Macmillan unveiled the first edition of The Baseball Encyclopedia

with its yearly rosters of all the regular position players and pitchers for each major league team,

and I dug them out again in 1974 when Neft and Cohen went a step further than Macmillan

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and produced complete yearly rosters for each tearn since 1901 in their first edition of The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball My stack of cards looked meager in comparison to what Mac- milan contained and even skimpier up against Neft and Cohen And yet I had in those cards something that neither of those magnificent encyclopedias could boast and that no other book ever has either | had complete rosters—or as complete, anyway, as I could make them at that time—for every nineteenth century major league team as well

In the fifty years since 1956 my nineteenth century team cards have undergone hordes of changes and refinements, thanks not only to my own efforts but also to the research incorporat-

ed in the Macmillan encyclopedia and Total Baseball and Bill Carle’s monthly SABR Biographi- cal Committee newsletters My team cards are still not a hundred percent complete, though, and perhaps they never will be Some gaps may simply be inevitable, for a book like this in a sense is eternally a work in progress

As you may have already guessed, teams and their composition have long been my foremost passion and where I’ve devoted most of my research hours, and I’m happy to share the contents

of the cigar box that I kept for so many years against the day when a book like this at last could happen

The teams are organized by season and by league A team nickname or the name of a man- ager will differ in some instances in The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball from the team nickname or manager's name listed in other encyclopedias because my research demonstrates that the nickname or manager at issue is something other than what pre-

vious works believed it to have been For a good 90% of the information in this book, though,

Em indebted to Macmillan and The Encyclopedia of Baseball 2004 edition—except in situations when they themselves are at loggerheads Pitchers’ season and career won-lost totals especially

seem to breed conflict between these two otherwise impeccably reliable sources, so much so that

on several occasions in The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball Vve had to go with my own instincts as to what the won-lost totals were in a particular year for Kid Nichols or John Clarkson or Mickey Welch But, as I’ve said, absolute accuracy in a book of this sort is constantly sought but ever elusive.

THE ANNUAL RECORD

THE SEASONAL RECORD AND REPORT

The Seasonal Record is a chronological listing of the team standings, league leaders and complete team rosters for every major league team from 1871 through 1900 This section also provides each team's manager, the name of its home park and the nickname by which the team was most commonly known The statistical history of each season is preceded by a report of the pennant race and other significant events, including changes in the playing rules

All information codes and abbreviations that may be unfamiliar are explained in the two sample formats presented below Both are from the 1871 season

THE SEASONAL RECORD OFFICIAL STANDINGS

G Ww L Pet H R GB Attendance

1 Philadelphia Athletics 29 22 7 759 11-3 8-4 — 50,000

2 Boston Red Stockings 33 22 10 688 11-4 8-5 1.5 32,500

3 Chicago White Stockings 29 20 9 690 13-3 6-5 2 69,000

4 New York Mutuals 35 17 18 486 12-7 4-10 8 40,500

5 Washington Olympics 33 16 15 516 7-4 5-9 7 20,500

6 Troy Unions 31 15 15 500 7-9 5-6 7.5 16,500

7 Cleveland Forest Citys 29 10 19 345 3-8 7-8 12 14,500

8 Fort Wayne Kekiongas 28 7 21 250 5-4 2-7 14.5 3,000

9 Rockford Forest Citys 27 6 21 222 2-4 1-17 15.5 6,000

Official Standings Column Headings Information

G Total games played including ties and forfeits

GB Number of games finished behind the league leader

The second sample format is the complete roster of the Philadelphia Athletics They finished first in 1871, and all team rosters are presented in the order of the final standings

SS John Radcliff 28 145 44 47 7 5 0 22 6 1 5 1 303 421 331

C Fergy Malone 27 134 46 33 7 1 1 33 9 4 9 3 343 433 3685 2B AI Reach 26 133 47 43 7 6 0 34 5 6 2 0 353 496_ 377

P Dick McBride 25 132 31 36 3 0 0 17 7 1 4 0 235 295 273 3B Levi Meyerle 26 130 64 45 9 3 4 40 2 1 4 0 492 .700 500

CF Count 25 127 41 38 5 2 0 23 0 1 5 3 329 394 329

UT George Bechtel 20 94 33 24 9 1 1 21 2 2 4 0 351 500 371

RF George Heubel 16 75 23 18 4 2 0 13 2 0 1 0 307 413 360 Sub Tom Pratt 1 6 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 333 333 333 Sub Tom Berry 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250 250_ 250

Sub Nate Berkenstock 1 4 O O O O O O O 3 O O 000 000 000

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1B—Fisler 26, Pratt 1, Heubel 1

Levi Meyerle 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 9.00 1 0

—3 forfeit Wins: 2 vs Rockford; 1 vs Fort Wayne (2 of the 3 forfeit wins were originally losses credited to McBride)—

249 329 28 27 19 7 16 53 O O 496 11 3

Roster Column Headings Information

Batters Fielders Pitchers

POS Primary Fielding Position 1B First Basemen G Games Pitched

G Games Played 2B Second Basemen IP Innings Pitched

AB At Bats SS Shortstops H Hits Allowed

H Hits 3B Third Basemen GS Games Started

R Runs LF Left Fielders CG Complete Games 2B Doubles CF Center Fielders Ww Wins

3B Triples RF Right Fielders L Losses

HR Home Runs C Catchers SO Strikeouts

RBI Runs Batted In (when available) P Pitchers BB Bases on Balls

BB Bases on Balls Sub Substitutes SH Shutouts

SO Strikeouts (when available) UT Utilitymen Sv Saves

SB Stolen Bases (when available) @ Also played other ERA Earned Run Average HBP Hit by Pitches outfield positions HB Hit Batsmen

SH Sacrifice Hits (when available) WP Wild Pitches

BA Batting Average HR Home Runs Allowed

SA Slugging Average

OBP On-base Percentage

THE ANNVAL RECORD

Other Information Explanation

Players -Players are listed by surname and most commonly used first name or nickname As a result of our research, in The Great Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Major League Baseball, the mast commonly used first name or nickname for some players will differ from other reference works Roster order—Team batting rosters are arranged in oreler of at bats; fielding rosters are arranged in order of games played at each position; and pitching rosters are arranged in order of innings pitched When two or more players have the same number of at bats or innings pitched, they appear in order

of base hits or pitching decisions

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Bold facing -incicates league leading total

*—after a figure in boid indicates that a player led his league in that department while playing for more than one team ifter a figure cates that a player le gue in that tment f 8 > than one team

Forfeits—forfeit wins and losses are listed only for games in which no pitchers were credited with decisions and are accompanied by the reason for the

forfeit, when known.

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Alexander Cartwright and his compatriots who helped him draft the first codified set of base- ball rules and stage matches between New York social clubs originally viewed the game as a vehicle for unifying and perpetuating their clubs By the Civil War, however, this notion of what baseball ought to be was obsolete The men from Cartwright’s Knickerbocker club who carried

on the game in his stead after he moved west and eventually to Hawaii got into baseball to en- hance their social stature and recognition, but professional players were now receiving almost all the recognition, and the clubs that would not deign to hire professionals could no longer hold their own The game had become stratified—professional players at the top and far below them those who were holding on to the archaic conviction that baseball should remain a leisure activity for gentlemen

Pioneer baseball writer and rulesmaker Henry Chadwick decried what he saw happening

to the game and campaigned vigorously for several years in his New York Clipper columns for

a separation between professional and amateur interests Chadwick’s efforts finally bore fruit

on a rainy St Patrick’s Day in 1871 when representatives of ten baseball clubs met at Collier’s Rooms, a drinking establishment at the corner of Broadway and 13th Street in New York As recounted in Turkin and Thompson’s The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball: “There, in a smoky gaslit hallroom adjoining the Cafe (saloon), pro baseball suffered its first real birth pangs, for that meeting established the National Association of Professional Base-Ball Players.”

The ten delegates elected James W Kerns of Philadelphia president of the NAPBBP (soon shortened to NA), named J S Evans of Cleveland vice president, Nick Young of Washington Olympics secretary, J W Schofield of Troy treasurer, and then set to work drawing up a set of championship rules Although no fixed schedule was adopted, it was agreed that every club would play each of its fellow clubs a best three-out-of-five series, making for a potential 45 championship games per club, and the team with the most victories at the end of the season would be entitled to parade the championship banner, called the “whip pennant,’ at its ball- ground the following year.

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The association’s entry fee was a mere $10, but the delegate from Brooklyn’s Eckford club decided that even this meager sum was too steep to risk and declined to enroll his team in the fledgling organization The nine remaining clubs were the Athletics* of Philadelphia, the Mu- tuals of New York, the White Stockings of Chicago, the Haymakers of Troy, the Olympics of Washington, the Forest Citys of Cleveland, the Kekiongas of Fort Wayne, the Red Stockings of Boston and the Forest Citys of Rockford, Ilinois Apart from a hope to make a financial profit, all the clubs had one other thing in common Local politicians occupied most of the positions

of power on their boards of directors Their economic structures otherwise varied widely, ow-

ing to the vast differences in the class composition of each club's backers The clubs ranged in financial stability from the Chicago club that was owned by a stock company headed by Windy City treasurer David Gage, who had at his disposal some $250,000 that he’d embezzled from his office, to the clerks and salesmen who ran the Kekionga club on a shoestring and lured players

to Fort Wayne by promising them a share of the gate receipts rather than a fixed salary

From its inception the National Association was an enterprise run largely by its playing per- sonnel The loop president selected in 1872 was third baseman Bob Ferguson of the Brooklyn Atlantics During the two seasons Ferguson served in the office, NA business was conducted in irregular meetings arranged by him for the club managers, most of whom, like himself, were players as well

The first professional league was a financial disaster Very few teams made any money for their backers, and much of the reason so many clubs sank in a sea of red ink was because the

NA was an even bigger artistic failure Only in its first season did the NA stage anything ap-

proaching an exciting pennant race Every other year the Boston entry was a runaway victor,

making for a very uneven desire to win among the other teams and a strong temptation to look elsewhere for motivation Chadwick’s baseball columns in the Clipper became increasingly pep- pered with stern warnings against the growing dangers of “fraudulent play” or “hippodroming,”

as throwing games was then called By 1875 Boston's seemingly endless monopoly on the pen- nant and the infestation of gamblers had all but destroyed the NA and made the professional game ripe for a cabal that would take control of it away from the players

* Many club nicknames in the early years of baseball were singular—e.g., Athletic, Mutual, Forest City, ete in this book, to avoid canfusion, they are pluralized throughout because the clubs themselves soon began to pluralize ther

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FORFEITS AND FIRE

In his history of the National Association, William Ryczek writes, “If America was different in

1871, the game of baseball was also a far cry from that which is played on the Astroturf saucers

of the 1990s Even the name was different The words ‘base’ and ‘ball’ were not merged until

the twentieth century During the nineteenth it was known as ‘Base Ball?”

To ease the reader’s task, in this book baseball is one word and much of its nineteenth cen-

tury terminology has similarly been modernized, but there is no way to soften the fact that the

game in 1871 truly was a far cry from baseball today Home plate was a 12-inch square made

of marble or stone and set in the ground so that one corner pointed toward the pitcher and the

other toward the catcher; these two positions were therefore called “the points.” The bases were

located half in fair and half in foul territory, unlike today when the entire base is in fair ground,

and it was the umpire’s task to judge whether a hot shot down the line crossed the fair or foul

part of the bag

The pitcher delivered the ball from a flat six-foot square-shaped box situated 45 feet from

the plate His delivery had to be executed with a straight arm swinging perpendicular to the

ground, meaning that essentially he threw underhand Facing him was a batter who stood

astride a three-foot line drawn through the center of the plate The batter was authorized to

request either “high” pitches (between his waist and shoulders) or “low” pitches (between his

waist and knees) Like today, a batter was given just three strikes, but in 1871 an umpire could

not call the first pitch a strike, regardless of its location, unless it was swung at and missed

Missed, we need emphasize, for in 1871, as was true throughout the nineteenth century, a foul

ball, even with fewer than two strikes, was not counted as a strike

A batter in the first National Association season was awarded first base after only three called

balls as opposed to the four needed today However, before deeming a pitch a ball an umpire

was obliged to warn a pitcher an unspecified number of times for not delivering “fair” pitches

or for delaying the game Hence a batter had to receive many more than three pitches outside

his chosen strike zone before he was given his base And if an errant pitch should happen to

smack him in the ribs, it was simply his hard luck A hit batsman was not given his base until

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the mid-1880s He might not even be awarded a ball if the pitcher had not as yet been warned for failing to deliver fair pitches

The duel between batter and fielder was also quite different in 1871 Since a hit was deemed fair or foul depending on where it first struck earth, many batters thrived on accumulating fair- foul hits by chopping sharply down on the ball to give it “English” and cause it to hit the front half of the marble plate, which was in fair territory, and then instantly spin off into foul ground

To guard against hitters who had mastered this contrivance, either the first or third baseman— and sometimes both—would hug the line and might even station himself in foul territory The visiting team was required to furnish one new game ball, although in the event the clubs played a series of games at the same grounds, the visitors and the home team took turns provid- ing the contest’s centerpiece The ball was expected to last the entire game, but the home club kept replacement balls on hand in case the original ball was lost or damaged so severely that it could no longer be kept in play In 1871 the teams tossed a coin to see which would bat first or last, and the winning captain customarily chose the former if only so that his batsmen would get first crack at the new game ball

Substitutions were rare, generally occurring only when a player was injured or ill An injured player could request for a substitute to run the bases for him and still remain in the game, how- ever, provided the opposing captain agreed to it The substitute would start from behind home plate and begin running as soon as the batter for whom he was a surrogate struck the ball Barring injury, a pitcher was expected to hurl the full nine innings no matter how brutally he was being hammered When a pitcher was replaced, it was almost always by a player already in the game with whom he would simply swap positions

In 1871 catchers did not yet wear masks, chest protectors or shin guards, let alone gloves, and consequently stayed well back of the batter to prevent being struck by foul tips Actually, no field- ers in 1871—~-not even first basemen-—-wore gloves Nor did base runners wear sliding pads For the sake of economy and simplicity, a single umpire worked each game He was stationed behind the catcher and seldom ventured into the playing field It was even made a rule in 1875 that an umpire could not set foot in fair territory while the ball was in play In time that rule would be rescinded, and many of the other regulations that seem odd beyond belief today would also vanish, but they were all an integral part of the fabric of the game when the first major league season commenced on May 4, 1871 The unlikely site of the historic inaugural was Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the Cleveland Forest Citys opposed the local Kekiongas, largely because Boston and the Olympics, the two blue ribbon clubs that had been slated to break the ice for the new league, were rained out in their opener in Washington.

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The Fort Wayners won 2-0 in an extraordinarily well-played game, especially for so early in

the season, and seized first place They were swiftly deposed, though, by Chicago, which won

its first seven games Still unbeaten, Chicago met the New York Mutuals in Brooklyn on June 5

Mutuals owner William Cammeyer’s stiff 50¢ admission fee kept many away, but around 6,000

paid their way into the Union Grounds, and another 4,000 or so watched for free from rooftops

or by standing on pushcarts outside the fences New York won 8-5 and took over first place but

then started losing at an alarming rate, perhaps deliberately Charges of dumping games were

constantly leveled at the Mutuals all during the NA’s tenure Upon hearing that Boss Tweed had

invested $7,500 in the club, one wag said, “He probably got it all back again.” The inference was

that Tweed clandestinely bet against his own team

Tweed was at the zenith of his power in 1871, but a year later he would be in jail The Troy

team also was under dubious auspices Its founder was Jim Morrissey, an ex-Congressman who

ran a national election-betting cartel in 1876 but canceled all bets when he heard a rumor that

the Democrats aimed to sell the Tilden presidency to the Republicans in return for a promise to

end Reconstruction in the South The Philadelphia Athletics had among their directors several

THE HASTINGS CASE

Born in 1848 during the Mexican War, Scott Hastings was named after its most heroic figure, Win-

field Scott In 1870 Hastings played with Al Spalding and Ross Barnes on a strong Rockford team

but then went south that winter to earn extra money playing for the Lone Star club in New Orleans

Hastings was still with the Lone Stars on April 16 when they met Chicago in an exhibition game

prior to the opening of the first NA season It was his last game for the New Orleans club His next

appearance came with Rockford on May 6 in its opening loss to Cleveland

Hastings's presence on the Rockfords was protested by every rival club because of a rule the

NA devised to prevent its teams from raiding one another during the season by offering a coveted

player more money Fearing that players would otherwise jump teams or “revolve” at will, the NA

stipulated that no player under contract could play with another club for a period of 60 days from

his last game with his old club Since Hastings had been under contract to the Lone Stars and last

played with them on April 16, he was not eligible to play for Rockford until June 16 Upon a motion

made by F H Mason of Cleveland at the league meeting on November 3, 1871, the four games

Rockford won before June 16 were erased and given instead to their opponents One can only

speculate today how Philadelphia, which stood to gain two of those disputed games, might have

prodded Mason, whose club stood to gain nothing tangible from his motion, to put up his hand and

beg the chair for recognition

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Many, particularly in Boston, still aren't convinced that these 1871 Philadelphia Athletics won the first major league pennant Chopped off

at the left edge of the illustration is first basernan West Fisler Note that every team member has facial hair, including pitcher-manager Dick McBride's muttonchops Well before the turn of the century, styles would change so much that there would be team pictures in which none

of the principals had facial hair

billiard parlor operators and liquor store owners, all of them staunch Republicans eager to take advantage of the “open Sunday” period in the nation’s second largest city in the early 1870s The Athletics’ business manager, Hicks Hayhurst, was a city councilman and had close ties to the lucrative business of tax collecting

But if New York and Troy and Philadelphia had the strongest political and financial clout, Boston, on paper at least, had the best team Manager-centerfielder Harry Wright had cor- ralled the cream of the unbeaten 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, including himself, his brother George, first baseman Charlie Gould and all-purpose star Cal McVey To complement them he snagged pitcher Al Spalding, second sacker Ross Barnes and outfielder Fred Cone, the heart

of the Rockford, Illinois, team in 1870 Injuries to George Wright and other key regulars cost Boston a number of games, but no club was more beset by ill luck in the early going than the Kekiongas By mid-August the co-op club, whose players entrusted their economic security to a share of the gate receipts in lieu of regular salaries, was forced to fold after Bobby Mathews and Tom Carey defected and more team members soon followed when the club treasury grew so

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ONE-GAMER I

The first man to make his major league debut after celebrating his 40th birthday was Nate Berken-

stock In the game between Chicago and Philadelphia on October 30, 1871, that ultimately decided

the initial NA pennant, Berkenstock patrolled right field for the Athletics It was his lone big league

appearance Berkenstock's opportunity came when Count Sensenderfer hurt his knee, forcing

the Athletics to move George Bechtel to center from his customary post in right Berkenstock had

played throughout the 1860s but was considered too old to claim a roster spot on a team when the

NA formed The judgment seemed right After being brought out of mothballs, Berkenstock fanned

three times in four plate appearances, but the Athletics won nevertheless, 4-1, to stake claim to the

depleted that compensation was no longer even a dream The Eckford club of Brooklyn, after

declining to join the NA, replaced the Kekiongas on August 29 with the agreement that their

games would not count in the standings and that all unplayed games by the Kekiongas that were

needed to complete a season series with each team were declared forfeit

Nine such games were at stake, and fortunately the top three contenders, Chicago, Boston

and Philadelphia, profited equally Each received one bonus forfeit win due to the Kekiongas’

precipitous departure, but it was the lone issue in the 1871 pennant race upon which the three

would agree

All of the brouhaha might have been averted but for the infamous mishap in Mrs O’Leary’s

barn Whether that kerosene lamp was kicked over by a clumsy cow or by a certain Louis Cohn

who got overexcited in the midst of a craps game, the Rockford team, arriving in Chicago on

the morning of October 8 for a game that afternoon, was repelled by a gargantuan blaze The

great Chicago fire destroyed not only the Chicago team’s ballpark but also decimated the homes

of many of its players as well as the banks holding their money Broke and bereft of equipment

and uniforms, the demoralized White Stockings finished the season on the road with three

straight losses

The final defeat came on October 30 at Brooklyn’s Union Grounds with Chicago acting as

“home team” against the Athletics in a game that was billed as being for the pennant But even

after Philadelphia won 4-1, the race was far from settled Still unresolved were four early-season

games that Rockford had won with an allegedly ineligible player, Scott Hastings, behind the bat

Worse yet, the Championship Committee had never definitely decided whether the pennant

belonged to the team with the most total wins or the team that won the most season series Nor

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Bobby Mathews, winner of the first game in major

league history Not only did Mathews also gain

the honor of throwing the first shutout, but his

2-0 lidlifter also proved to be the lowest-scoring

game of the entire 1871 NA season Mathews fell

only three wins short of becoming the first pitcher

to collect 300 victories when he was unable to

rebound from an arm injury he sustained in the

spring of 1887, his final ML season

Here is the box score of the National Association's inaugural game together with the story of it that a long-forgotten reporter dispatched

to the New York Herald The play-by-play account has been edited for the sake of clarity, but nothing will ever change how crisp a game it was or the remarkably prominent role that both catchers played

The finest game of base ball ever witnessed in this country was played on the grounds of the Kekiongas of this city this afternoon, the playing throughout being without precedent in the annals of base ball, and the members of both clubs establishing beyond doubt their reputation as among the most perfect ball players in the United States

Not an error was made by Cleveland, and only three by Fort Wayne

The batting was not as heavy as some, though the pitching was superior Especially was that of Mathews, of Fort Wayne, commented upon The umpiring was fair, impartial, and entirely satisfactory to both clubs Owing to the threatening indications of the weather, not over five hundred persons were on the ground The enthusiasm ran high among the spectators, and we doubt if a game in this country was ever witnessed with closer attention

The Kekiongas won the toss and sent the Forest Citys to the bat

The following is the game by innings:

FOREST CITY (Cleveland) at KEKIONGAS (Fort Wayne)

E White, If 3 0 0 1 0 Lennon, c 4 1 1 9 1 Pratt, p 3 0 0 1 2 Carey, ss 3 0 0 3 1 Sutton, 3b 3 0 1 0 0 Mincher, If 3 0 0 2 0 Carleton, 1b 3 0 0 9 0 McDermott, cf 3 0 1 0 1

Bass, Ss 3 0 0 2 4 Kelly, 1b 3 1 1 3 0

Totals 31 0 5 24 10 Totals 32 2 4 27 4

Cleveland 000 000 000 — 0 Fort Wayne 010 010 000 — 2

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FIRST INNING

Cleveland—) White doubled Kimball lined out to Carey, who made an unassisted double play when White strayed off second thinking the ball would go through Pabor fouled out to Lennon

Fort Wayne—Sellman fouled out to J White Mathews was retired when J White took his foul fly on one bounce

Foran singled Goldsmith fouled out to J White

SECOND INNING

Cleveland—Alllison struck out but reached first when Lennon mishandled the third strike E White struck out, but

Allison moved to second after escaping a run-down involving Carey and Kelly Pratt fouled out to Foran Mincher made a fine running catch of Sutton's drive to retire the side and strand Allison at second

Fort Wayne—Lennon doubled to left Allison snagged Carey's fly with one hand after a long run Mincher flied to Kimball McDermott singled to score Lennon from second Kelly fouled out to J White One run

THIRD INNING

Cleveland—Carleton fanned Bass flied to Mincher J White fouled out to Lennon

Fort Wayne—J White put out Sellman by grabbing his foul fly on one bounce and then retired Mathews with a fine catch of his foul tip (Note: A batter was out in 1871 if a catcher caught a foul tip on either the fly or the first bounce.) Foran flied out to E White

FOURTH INNING

Cleveland—Kimball and Pabor both flied to Sellman Allison fouled out to Lennon

Fort Wayne—Goldsmith drew a base on balls Lennon fouled out to J White Carey reached first after forcing Goldsmith at second Mincher popped to Pratt

Cleveland—Bass flied to Mincher J White reached first on Goldsmith's error and went to second on a passed ball

Kimball flied to Foran Pabor popped to Mathews

Fort Wayne—Foran flied to Kimball Goldsmith's foul tip was caught by J White Lennon flied to Bass

SEVENTH INNING

Cleveland—Allison reached first on Goldsmith's error Lennon nailed Allison when he tried to steal to second as E

White struck out Pratt popped to Carey

Fort Wayne—Carey, Mincher and McDermott all grounded out

EIGHTH INNING

Cleveland—Sutton fouled out to Lennon Carlton grounded out Bass popped to Goldsmith

Fort Wayne—Kelly flied to Allison Sellman flied to Kimball Mathews grounded out

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was the committee clear on whether games should count after a team had already clinched a best-of-five series Thoroughly befuddled, different newspapers printed different standings on any given day, and even the same paper would print standings one week that were at odds with the standings it had run the previous week

On November 3, in Philadelphia, loop president James W Kerns called a meeting to sort out the confusion and find a way to name a champion by November 15 Harry Wright could not

have felt easy in his mind when he realized that Kerns and the Athletics, in their role as hosts of

the meeting, meant to provide refreshments, namely champagne In the convivial atmosphere

it was perhaps inevitable that the committee, after waftling all season, resolved enough of the contested issues in the Athletics’ favor to crown them the first major league champions The most crucial decision was the committee’s vote to revoke the Rockford club’s four wins prior

to June 16 in which Hastings had taken part Once two of the wins, which had come at the

Athletics’ expense, were changed to Philadelphia victories, the Athletics had one more win than Boston in games actually played and a better winning percentage even after unplayed forfeits

were added to the mix.

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THE SEASONAL RECORD OFFICIAL STANDINGS

G Ww L Pet H R GB Attendance

1 Philadelphia Athletics 29 22 7 759 11-3 8-4 — 50,000

2 Boston Red Stockings 33 22 10 688 11-4 8-5 1.5 32,500

3 Chicago White Stockings 29 20 9 690 13-3 6-5 2 69,000

4 New York Mutual 35 17 18 486 12-7 4-10 8 40,500

5 Washington Olympics 33 16 15 516 7-4 5-9 7 20,500

6 Troy Unions 31 15 15 500 7-9 5-6 7.5 16,500

7 Cleveland Forest Citys 29 10 19 345 3-8 7-8 12 14,500

8 Fort Wayne Kekiongas 28 7 21 250 5-4 2-7 14.5 3,000

9 Rockford Forest Citys 27 6 21 222 2-4 1-17 155 6,000

Notes: The schedule called for teams to play a best-of-five series against each other with the games counting only until a team won three games in a series The official standings are based on games won whether on the playing field or by forfeit Games played at neutral sites are omitted from Home and Road records

STANDINGS (including only games actually played)

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2.73 3.36 3.43 3.77 4.35

Slugging Average

1 Meyerle, Philadelphia Pike, Troy

Bass, Cleveland _G Wright, Boston

1 Wolters, New York

2 Ham, Rockford Pike, Troy Mack, Rockford

Strikeouts

1 Pratt, Cleveland

2 Spalding, Boston

3 Zettlein, Chicago

Wolters, New York

5 Mathews, Fort Wayne Lowest OOBP

Zettlein, Chicago Woiters, New York

Spalding, Chicago

Fisher, Rockford Pratt, Cleveland

290

302 307

9 King, Troy Reach, Philadelphia

4.200 1.078 1.054 1.027

9391

283

264 257.1

249 240.2

Winning Percentage (10 decisions)

Assists

Flynn, Troy Mack, Rockford McAtee, Chicago

E Mills, Washington

Wood, Chicago Addy, Rockford Reach, Philadelphia

Schafer, Boston

Waterman, Washington

Ferguson, New York

Force, Washington Radcliff, Philadelphia Pearce, New York

Five with

H Wright, Boston

York, Troy Three tied with

Treacey, Chicago King, Troy

Ham, Rockford

Malone, Philadelphia McCreary, Troy White, Cleveland

Addy, Rockford Kimball, Cleveland Reach, Philadelphia

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Sutton, Cleveland Ferguson, New York

Anson, Rockford

Force, Washington

Radcliff, Philadelphia Pearce, New York

Simmons, Chicago Kelley, Fort Wayne Glenn, Washington

Gould, Boston

E Mills, Washington Start, New York

Addy, Rockford Wood, Chicago Reach, Philadelphia

.886 873

885

918 B90

8.2 7.6 6.9

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3B

Schafer, Boston 7 Schafer, Boston 59 Pinkham, Chicago 6.3

Waterman, Washington 6 Waterman, Washington 50 Schafer, Boston 6.0

Bellan, Troy 4 Meyerle, Philadelphia 45 Waterman, Washington 5.9

ss

G Wright, Boston 8 Duffy, Chicago 44 Force, Washington 7.8

Flowers, Troy 8 Force, Washington 38 Radcliff, Philadelphia 6.9

Pearce, New York 8 Radcliff, Philadelphia 38 Duffy, Chicago 6.8

RF

Flynn, Troy 2 Birdsall, Boston 9 Stires, Rockford 1.8

Glenn, Washington 2 Heubel, Philadelphia 8 Kelley, Fort Wayne 1.71

Many tied with 1 Flynn, Troy 7 Glenn, Washington 1.68

Stires, Rockford 7

CF

York, Troy 2 Sensenderfer, Philadelphia 11 Hall, Washington 3.4

Four tied with 1 York, Troy 11 Eggler, New York 3.0

Foley, Chicago 10 York, Troy 2.6

LF

Ham, Rockford 1 S King, Troy 15 Hatfield, New York 4.0

Treacey, Chicago 1 Hatfield, New York 14 Cuthbert, Philadelphia 3.8

Ham, Rockford 13 Treacey, Chicago 3.4

C

D Allison, Washington 4 D White, Cleveland 34 Malone, Philadelphia 6.67

Hastings, Rockford 3 Malone, Philadelphia 26 D White, Cleveland 6.56

D White, Cleveland 3 Hodes, Chicago 21 Hodes, Chicago 5.1

Passed Ball Leaders: D White, Cleveland (109), C Mills, New York (73), Hastings, Rockford (48)

P

Pratt, Cleveland 3 Spalding, Boston 17 Fisher, Rockford 3.4

Fisher, Rockford 3 Zettlein, Chicago 10 Pratt, Cleveland 2.7

Four with 2 Pratt, Cleveland 9 Mathews, Fort Wayne 2.6

* FA and TC/G leaders must play in at least two-thirds of their team's games at a position to qualify as leaders at that position Catchers and pitchers are excepted Catchers must play in at least half their team's games at catcher to qualify; pitchers must play in a minimum of 25 games as a pitcher (15

in 1871) to qualify as TC/G leaders or else accept a minimum of 50 chances to qualify as FA leaders Figures are carried to as many extra digits as are necessary to break ties

SS John Radcliff 28 145 44 47 7 5 0 22 6 1 5 1 303 421 331

C Fergy Malone 27 134 46 33 7 1 1 33 9 4 9 3 343 433 385 2B AI Reach 26 133 47 43 7 6 0 34 5 6 2 0 353 496_ 377

P Dick McBride 25 132 31 36 3 0 0 17 7 1 4 0 235 295_ 273 3B Levi Meyerle 26 130 64 45 9 3 4 40 2 1 4 0 492 .700 500

CF Count Sensenderfer 25 127 41 38 5 2 0 23 0 1 5 3 329 394 329

UT George Bechtel 20 94 33 24 9 1 1 21 2 2 4 0 351 5OO 371

RF George Heubel 16 75 23 18 4 2 0 13 2 0 1 0 307 413 360 Sub Tom Pratt 1 6 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 333 333 333 Sub Tom Berry 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250 250_ 250

Sub Nate Berkenstock 1 4 O O O O O O O 3 O O 000 000 000

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1B—Fisler 26, Pratt 1, Heubel 1

2B—Barnes 16, Jackson 14, Barrows 1, Schafer 1

SS—G Wright 15, Barnes 15, H Wright 1, Jackson 1

3B—Schafer 31, Barnes 1, McVey 1

OF—H Wright 30, Birdsall 27, Cone 19, Barrows 17, Spalding 9, McVey 5, Jackson 1, Gould 1

C—McvVey 29, Birdsall 7

P—Spalding 31, H Wright 9

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28 1196 323 302 52 21 10 193 60 22 69 21 270.374 305

1B—McAtee 26, Simmons 2

2B—Wood 28 SS—Duffy 26, King 3, Hodes 1

3B—Pinkham 18, Hodes 10, Brannock 3, Duffy 1, Foley 1, King 1

OF—Treacey 25, Simmons 25, Foley 15, King 11, Pinkham 8, Hodes 4, Zettlein 3 C—Hodes 20, King 9, Foley 4

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Sub Charlie Smith 14 72 19 15 2 1 0 5 1 1 6 0 264 319 274

Sub Frank Fleet 1 6 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 333 333 333

33 1404 403 302 43 21 1 213 33 15 46 15 287 350 303

1B—Start 33

2B—Higham 12, Ferguson 11, Hatfield 7, Smith 3, Patterson 2, Mills 1

SS—Pearce 33

3B—Ferguson 20, Smith 12, Hatfield 2, Mills 1, Wolters 1

OF—Eggler 33, Patterson 31, Hatfield 24, Higham 8, Mills 4

C—Mills 29, Ferguson 5, Higham 1

P—Wolters 32, Fleet 1, Ferguson 1

Pos G TC PO A DP E PB FA Start 1B 33 365 334 2 11 200 — 921

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P Bill Stearns 2 9 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 000 000 182 Sub Warren White 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 000 000 Sub Frank Norton 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 000 000 000

32 1353 375 310 54 26 6 214 48 13 48 13 277 369_ 302

1B—Mills 32 2B—Leonard 19, Sweasy 5, Berthrong 5, Beals 2, White 1, Burroughs 1 3B—Waterman 28, Burroughs 5, Force 1, Norton 1

SS—Force 31, Leonard 1 OF—Hall 32, Glenn 26, Berthrong 12, Leonard 11, Beals 8, Burroughs 8, Norton 1 C—Allison 27, Waterman 6, Berthrong 1

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Lip Pike (1-3) Bill Craver (12-12)

Rensselaer Park (also known as Union Grounds)

1B—Flynn 19, Connor 4, Pike 4, Craver 2

2B—Craver 18, Pike 7, Beavens 3, Connor 1, Flowers 1, Flynn 1

SS—Flowers 20, Craver 4, McGeary 3, Bellan 1, Abercrombie 1, McMullin 1

—3 forfeit Ws vs Fort Wayne, 2 not played and 1 on June 19 when Fort Wayne refused to play with a new ball in

the 6th inning while leading 6-3—

250 431 29 28 12 15 12 75 0 0 5.51 44 4

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SS John Bass 22 89 27 18 1 10 3 18 3 4 0 1 303 640 326

RF Elmer White 15 70 18 13 2 0 0 9 1 6 0 1 257 286 268 Sub Caleb Johnson 16 67 15 10 1 0 0 7 0 1 1 0 224 239 224 Sub Joe Quest 3 13 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 231 308 308 Sub Joe Battin 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 000 = 000 = 250 Sub George Ewell 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 = 000 000

29 1186 328 249 Ww œ1 + © N —~ o>) K ) ® N œ1 —~ œ œ 277 391 292

1B—Carleton 29

2B—Kimball 17, Johnson 10, Quest 2, Allison 2, D White 1

SS—Bass 22, Kimball 6, D White 2, Quest 1

3B—Sutton 29, Kimball 2, D White 1

OF—Allison 29, Pabor 28, E White 15, Kimball 9, Johnson 6, Pratt 6, Sutton 2, Battin 1, Ewell 1, D White 1

C—D White 29, E White 3, Bass 1, Sutton 1

Bill Lennon (5-9) Harry Deane (2-3)

The Grand Duchess (also known as Hamilton Field)

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Sub Pete Donnelly 9 34 7 7 1 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 206 294 229

Sub Jimmy Hallinan 5 25 5 7 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 200 200 259

Sub Harry Deane 5 22 4 3 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 182) 273 250

Sub Joe Quinn 5 17 4 8 0 0 0 2 4 0 3 1 235 235 381

Sub Harry Kohler 3 12 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 167 333 167

Sub Joe McDermott 2 8 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 250 250 333

Sub Bill Barrett 1 5 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 200 400 200

Sub Nealy Phelps 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 000 000 250

Sub Charlie Bearman 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 000 00O 333

19 746 178 137 19 8 2 94 33 9 16 4 239 294 271

1B—Foran 16, Kohler 2, Phelps 1, Bearman 1

2B—Carey 19

$S—Goldsmith 14, Hallinan 5, Lennon 2, Sellman 2, Carey 1

3B—Sellman 14, Goldsmith 8, Donnelly 2, Kohler 1, Barrett 1

OF—Kelly 18, Armstrong 12, Donnelly 9, Mincher 9, Deane 5, Foran 4, McDermott 2, Lennon 1

C—Lennon 12, Quinn 5, Selman 5, Goldsmith 2, Kohler 2, Barrett 1

P—Mathews 19

Pos G TC PO A DP E PB FA Carey 2B 19 126 58 50 5 18 — 857

—1 forfeit W vs Rockford and 9 forfeit Ls: 3 to Troy, 2 to Rockford, 1 to New York, 1 to Washington, 1 to Chicago,

1 to Boston and 1 to Philadelphia—