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1872 Cleveland Forest Citys Season
The Cleveland Forest Citys played their second and final season in 1872 as a member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP), often known simply as the National Association (NA), was the first fully- professional sports league in baseball. The NA was founded in 1871 and continued through the 1875 se .... They finished seventh in the league with a record of 6-16. The team folded at the conclusion of the season. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Roster Player stats Batting ''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Starting pitchers ''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts'' References1872 Cleveland Forest Citys season at Baseball Reference Cleveland Forest Citys Season, 1872 Cleveland Forest Citys {{Ohio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Association Grounds
National Association Grounds was a baseball grounds in Cleveland, Ohio, located at Central Avenue and East 55th Street. It was home to the Cleveland Forest Citys of the National Association in 1871 and 1872, with Cleveland winning five of its sixteen home games. It is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the National Association as a major league. After many years of use as an amateur baseball field, a new team dubbed Cleveland Forest City moved to the NA Grounds, as members of the short-lived United States Baseball League The United States Baseball League was a short-lived hopeful third major-league that was established in New York City in 1912 and lasted only one partial season. History In March 1912, organizers of the proposed league – described by members of ... in 1912. The USL lasted a barely a month before disbanding. References *Retrosheet"Park Directory" Retrieved 2006-09-04. Sports venues in Cleveland Defunct baseball venues in the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Simmons (baseball)
Joseph S. Simmons (''né'' Chabriel; June 13, 1845 – July 24, 1901) was an American Major League Baseball player and manager from New York City. Simmons played three seasons in the National Association; the last year he was player-manager for the Keokuk Westerns, a team that would win just one game of the 13 that they played. He later became the manager for the Wilmington Quicksteps of the Eastern League. Late in the season, after winning the Eastern League title, the Quicksteps joined the Union Association as a replacement team, but won only 2 of their 18 games. Simmons died in Jersey City, New Jersey at the age of 56, and was buried at the Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery Bayview Cemetery, previously called Greenville Cemetery, is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. It merged with New York Bay Cemetery and is now known as Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery. History The cemetery was built in 1848. It is located in ... in Jersey City under his birth name of Chabriel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rynie Wolters
Reinder Albertus Wolters (March 17, 1844 – January 3, 1917) was a professional baseball player from Nieuweschans, Netherlands. He played five seasons in the amateur National Association of Base Ball Players from 1866–70, and three seasons in its professional successor, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, National Association from 1871-73. He was the first Dutch people, Dutch professional baseball player.''Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures'', 2008 Edition, p. 136, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, While he was primarily a pitcher, he also played occasionally in the outfielder, outfield. His first and best professional season was in 1871 with the New York Mutuals, when he pitched 283 innings pitched, innings and had a 3.43 earned run average. His second year was with the Cleveland Forest Citys, where he played much less and had a higher ERA. In his last year, he only pitched one game, with the Elizabeth Resolutes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Pabor
Charles Henry Pabor (September 24, 1846 – April 23, 1913), also spelled Charley, nicknamed "The Old Woman in the Red Cap", was an American Major League Baseball left fielder and manager throughout the existence of the National Association, –. Early life and career Born in Brooklyn, New York, Pabor played baseball in and around New York City until he joined the Cleveland Forest Citys of the National Association as a left fielder and manager. On May 4, 1871, Pabor managed and played while batting 0-4 in the first game of the season, which is considered the first all professional game ever played, a game between his Forest Citys and the Fort Wayne Kekiongas. Cleveland finished 8th that season, and Pabor was replaced as manager in . He had hit well in 1871, with a .296 batting average, but it dropped to .207 in 1872. The Cleveland team folded after the season, and Pabor got a fresh start with the Brooklyn Atlantics. He had his best season that year, hitting .360 with 41 runs batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Mullen
Martin Mullen (August 22, 1852 – October 27, 1915) was an Americans, American professional baseball player for the Cleveland Forest Citys. He played in one game on August 17, 1872 and was hitless in four at-bats, scoring one run. He played in right fielder, right field for the game. His one appearance in the professional leagues was due to an accident. Rynie Wolters, the regular outfielder for the Forest Citys, swallowed his chaw of tobacco and could not play so Mullen, a local amateur player made his professional debu External links 1852 births 1915 deaths 19th-century baseball players Major League Baseball right fielders Cleveland Forest Citys players Baseball players from Cleveland {{Baseball-right-fielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Allison
Arthur Algernon Allison (January 29, 1849 – February 25, 1916) was an American Major League Baseball player from 1871 to 1876, who played his career primarily as an outfielder. Allison is known for playing in the first professional baseball game on May 4, 1871 between the Cleveland Forest Citys and the Fort Wayne Kekiongas, as Cleveland's Center Fielder. Allison is also known as being the first ever strikeout recorded in major league history. Allison had a peak year during the 1873 season whilst playing for the Elizabeth Resolutes, where he had a career-high batting average Batting average is a statistic in cricket, baseball, and softball that measures the performance of batters. The development of the baseball statistic was influenced by the cricket statistic. Cricket In cricket, a player's batting average is ... of .320. Despite Allison having the second highest batting average of the 1873 season, the Resolutes as a team would place second to last in the National Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Sweasy
Charles James Sweasy (November 2, 1847 – March 30, 1908), born ''Swasey'', played second baseman, second base for the original Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional baseball team. He returned to Cincinnati in 1876, hired by the new club that was a charter member of the National League. In the meantime he played for six teams during the five seasons of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, National Association, so he may be considered one of the first "journeyman" ballplayers. A right-handed thrower and batter, he almost exclusively played second base. Born 1847 in Newark, New Jersey, Sweasy's debut with a "major" team was in 1866 with the New Jersey Irvingtons that hailed from Irvington, New Jersey about 20 miles inland. Irvington was a new member of the National Association of Base Ball Players, with many other clubs as the association tripled in size to more than 90 in its first post-war season. The Irvingtons frightened the champion B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezra Sutton
Ezra Ballou Sutton (September 17, 1849 – June 20, 1907) was an American third baseman in the National Association and Major League Baseball from 1871 to 1888. Sutton collected 1,574 hits during this time period; he had a lifetime batting average of .294. Like many players in an era when walks were more rare, Sutton did not walk a lot, only drawing 169 walks in more than 5,500 plate appearances. By almost all measures, Sutton had his two best seasons in and – he collected 203 runs and 296 hits during those seasons. On May 8, 1871, Sutton hit the first home run in professional baseball history for the Cleveland Forest Citys against the Chicago White Stockings. He would go on to hit another home run later in the game but Cleveland still lost the game 14–12. The Seneca Falls, New York born Sutton came to the Cleveland Forest Citys in 1870 from the Alert club of Rochester, New York (who had played the Forest Citys twice in 1869), and then joined the Philadelphia Athletics in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Holdsworth
James Holdsworth (July 14, 1850 – March 22, 1918), nicknamed "Long Jim", was a professional baseball player who played shortstop in Major League Baseball for seven different teams during his nine-season career from to . Holdsworth died in his hometown of New York City, and is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery. He played in the National Association, National League, and briefly the American Association. In 1877, the ''Brooklyn Eagle'' described Holdsworth as "a good honest player, an excellent bat and a fine outfielder." Holdsworth went through an elaborate wind-up in preparation to hit pitches, such that the press dubbed him "the dancing batter." Holdsworth carries the distinction of the lowest walk rate in history; he walked just 8 times in 1,489 plate appearances. (A walk was not earned with four balls until 1889, for several years in the 1870s taking as many as nine.) In 1885, he played for the Rochester Flour Cities of the New York State League The New York State League w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. maritime border with Canada, northeast of Cincinnati, northeast of Columbus, and approximately west of Pennsylvania. The largest city on Lake Erie and one of the major cities of the Great Lakes region, Cleveland ranks as the 54th-largest city in the U.S. with a 2020 population of 372,624. The city anchors both the Greater Cleveland metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton combined statistical area (CSA). The CSA is the most populous in Ohio and the 17th largest in the country, with a population of 3.63 million in 2020, while the MSA ranks as 34th largest at 2.09 million. Cleveland was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Carleton
James Leslie Carleton (August 20, 1848 – April 25, 1910) was a Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Forest Citys The Forest Citys were a short lived professional baseball team based in Cleveland in the early 1870s. The actual name of the team, as shown in standings, was Forest City, not "Cleveland". The name "Forest Citys" was used in the same generic styl ... from 1871 to 1872. External links 1848 births 1910 deaths People from Clinton, Connecticut New York Mutuals (NABBP) players Cleveland Forest Citys (NABBP) players Cleveland Forest Citys players 19th-century baseball players Baseball players from Connecticut {{US-baseball-first-baseman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Pratt (baseball)
Albert G. Pratt (November 19, 1847 – November 21, 1937),"Al Pratt Statistics and History" baseball-reference.com. Retrieved September 17, 2011. nicknamed "Uncle Al", was an American right-handed pitcher and outfielder in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, National Association for the Cleveland Forest Citys, and was a manager (baseball), manager in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys of the American Association (19th century), American Association.Al Pratt Manager Page at baseball-reference.com, URL accessed August 20, 2009 A native of Pittsburgh, Penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
