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1878 Milwaukee Grays Season
The Milwaukee Grays were members of the National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team s ... for only the 1878 season, having played as an independent team in 1877. They finished in sixth place, one of only two teams to finish below .500. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Roster Player stats Batting Starters by position ''Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Other batters ''Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in'' Pitching Starting pitchers ''Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts'' Relief pitchers ''Note: G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eclipse Park (Milwaukee)
Eclipse Park, also known as Milwaukee Base-Ball Grounds, is a former baseball ground located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The ground was home to the Milwaukee Grays of the National League during the 1878 season. The first game was played on May 14 and the last on September 14. The ballpark was on the block bounded by West Clybourn Street, West Michigan Street, North Tenth Street, and North Eleventh Street. Like another baseball stadium which succeeded it in Milwaukee, Borchert Field, the ballpark's site now contains Interstate 43, along with the northern quadrant of the Marquette Interchange. See also * List of baseball parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, List of baseball parks in Milwaukee Google map References Sources *Michael Benson, ''Baseball Parks of North America'', McFarland, 1989. Defunct baseball venues in the United States Sports venues in Milwaukee Baseball venues in Wisconsin Defunct sports venues in Wisconsin {{Wisconsin-baseball-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Creamer
George W. Creamer (1855 – June 27, 1886), born George W. Triebel, was an American Major League Baseball second baseman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He played with four teams in two leagues: the Milwaukee Grays (), the Syracuse Stars (), the Worcester Ruby Legs (–), and the Pittsburgh Alleghenys (–). On August 20, 1883, after a game between the Louisville Eclipse and the Alleghenys‚ Creamer and fellow players Billy Taylor and Mike Mansell were each fined $100 and suspended indefinitely for drunkenness. In , the Alleghenys finished with a 30-78-2 record and went through five managers. Creamer was the fourth of these managers, serving from August 6 to August 16 and losing all eight games he managed. Creamer was signed by the Baltimore Orioles before the 1885 season, but in March, newspaper reports said that he was very sick with tuberculosis and not expected to play baseball again. Players from the Chiacgo White Stockings took up a collection for Creamer and gave h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Holbert
William Henry Holbert (March 14, 1855 – March 20, 1935) was a catcher in the National League and American Association baseball leagues, from 1876 through 1888. He holds the Major League record for career at-bats without a home run, failing to do so in his 2,335 at-bats. However, he was playing in an era when triples were more common than home runs, due to the spacious parks and poor quality of the balls used. Bill Holbert started his career with the nascent Louisville Grays of 1876. He sat out the 1877 year and, in 1878, played for the Milwaukee Grays, followed by the Syracuse Stars, and the Troy Trojans (both in 1879). Holbert is also credited with managing one game, a loss, in 1879 while with the Syracuse Stars. He stayed with the Trojans, and the National League, until 1883, when he joined the New York Metropolitans of the new American Association. The Metropolitans traded him to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms after the 1887 season. Bill Holbert retired in 1888, playing just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Golden (baseball)
Michael Henry Golden (September 11, 1851 – January 11, 1929) was an American Major League Baseball player who pitched and played in the outfield for three teams during his two season career. Career Born in Shirley, Massachusetts, Golden made his debut on May 4, 1875 for the Keokuk Westerns of the National Association. He was their starting pitcher for all 13 games the team was in the Association, completing all 13, with 113 innings pitched, a 2.79 ERA, and won just one game against 12 losses. When the Westerns folded, he signed with the Chicago White Stockings for the rest of the season. He pitched 119 innings in 14 games pitched for the White Stockings, with a 2.79 ERA, a 6–7 W-L records, 12 complete games, and one shutout. In addition to pitching, he also played 27 games in the outfield. In total, he played in 39 games, hitting .258, and scored 16 runs. The only other season he played at the top level of professional baseball, and his only "Major League" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abner Dalrymple
Abner Frank Dalrymple (September 9, 1857 – January 25, 1939) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who hit 43 home runs (including 22 in 1884, the second-highest total to that date) and batted .288 with 407 RBI during his 12-season career spent primarily with the Chicago White Stockings. Born in Gratiot, Wisconsin, he played for the Milwaukee Grays, White Stockings, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, and Milwaukee Brewers. Dalrymple started his major league career in 1878 with the National League's Milwaukee Grays, and that season, he had a career-high .354 batting average. He spent the next eight seasons with the Chicago White Stockings, for whom he starred as the leadoff hitter on five NL pennant winners. In 1880, Dalrymple led the league in hits (126) and runs scored (91). In 1881, he became the first batter known to be given an intentional walk with the bases loaded. He hit four doubles in a game in 1883, which still ties him for the major league record. In 1884, ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Redmond
William T. Redmond (1853–1894) was an American professional baseball shortstop. He played in the National Association with the St. Louis Red Stockings (1875). He played part of the 1877 season with the Cincinnati Reds of the National League between stints in the League Alliance. He played for the NL's Milwaukee Grays in 1878, then with the Rockford White Stockings of the Northwestern League The Northwestern League was a sports league that operated in the Central United States during the early years of professional baseball for five seasons: 1879, 1883–1884, and 1886–1887. After the 1887 season, the league was replaced by the We ... in 1879. External links Baseball players from Missouri St. Louis Red Stockings players Cincinnati Reds (1876–1879) players Milwaukee Grays players 19th-century baseball players 1853 births 1894 deaths Major League Baseball shortstops Memphis Reds (League Alliance) players Milwaukee (minor league baseball) players Rockford Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Peters (shortstop)
John Phillip Peters (April 8, 1850 – January 4, 1924) was a shortstop who played in Major League Baseball with four clubs from through . Peters batted and threw right-handed. Biography He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Peters reached the majors in 1874 with the Chicago White Stockings ( NA/ NL), spending four years with them before moving to the Milwaukee Grays (NL, 1878), again with Chicago (NL, 1879), and the Providence Grays (NL, 1880), Buffalo Bisons (NL, 1881) and Pittsburgh Alleghenys (NL, 1882–1884). He was the everyday shortstop of the pennant-winning 1876 Chicago White Stockings in the very first year of the National League. Peters averaged .328 from 1876 to 1878, with a career-high .351 in the 1876 championship season to finish fourth in the National League batting title behind Ross Barnes (.429), George Hall (.366) and Cap Anson (.356). He also twice led the shortstops in putouts in 1879 (280) and 1890 (277). While in Chicago, Peters shared infield defens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Goodman (baseball)
Jacob Goodman (September 14, 1853 – March 9, 1890) was an American major league baseball player who played for the 1877 Pittsburgh Allegheny, 1878 Milwaukee Grays and the 1882 Pittsburgh Alleghenys. While playing in the minor leagues in 1884, Goodman was beaned by a pitch.McKenna, Brian. ''Early exits: the premature endings of baseball careers'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, p. 195. After the head trauma, he became mentally unbalanced and suffered from palsy Palsy is a medical term which refers to various types of paralysisDan Agin, ''More Than Genes: What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development, and the Risk to Our Children;; (2009), p. 172. or paresis, often accompanied by weakness a ..., ending his baseball career. He died of complications related to his injury at the age of 36, on March 6, 1890. He was Jewish. External linksBaseball Reference References {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodman, Jake 1853 births 1890 deaths Baseball players from Pennsylvania Major Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Foley
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Joe Ellick
Joseph J. Ellick (April 3, 1854 – April 21, 1923) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball player. He was also briefly the player-manager of the Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies of the Union Association, compiling a record of 6–6 with one tie. See also *List of Major League Baseball player–managers Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. Founded in 1869, it is composed of 30 teams. Each team in the league has a manager, who is responsible for team strategy and leadership on and off ... Sources 1854 births 1923 deaths St. Louis Red Stockings players Milwaukee Grays players Worcester Ruby Legs players Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies players Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies managers Kansas City Cowboys (UA) players Baltimore Monumentals players Major League Baseball right fielders Major League Baseball shortstops Baseball players from Cincinnati 19th-century baseball players St. Paul Red Cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Bliss
Frank Eugene Bliss (December 10, 1852 – January 9, 1929) was an American baseball player. He played college baseball at the University of Michigan from 1869 to 1873 and played for the Milwaukee Grays in Major League Baseball during the 1878 season. Early years Bliss was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1852. He moved with his parents, Edwin J. Bliss (a carpenter and later contractor) and Mary Tuttle (Osborn) Bliss, to Ann Arbor, Michigan at age five and attended the public schools in Ann Arbor, graduating from high school in 1869. University of Michigan Bliss enrolled at the University of Michigan as a civil engineering student in 1869. He played college baseball there as a catcher from 1869 to 1873. Teammate Frederick Stearns said of Bliss: "He was a wonder. Besides being a great catcher, he had the unusual distinction of always playing with his trousers tucked in long boots." Baseball historian Peter Morris has cited Bliss's use of long boots as an early innovation of protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Milwaukee is the List of United States cities by population, 31st largest city in the United States, the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States, and the second largest city on Lake Michigan's shore behind Chicago. It is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, the fourth-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwestern United States, Midwest. Milwaukee is considered a global city, categorized as "Gamma minus" by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, with a regional List of U.S. metropolitan areas by GDP, GDP of over $102 billion in 2020. Today, Milwaukee is one of the most ethnicity, ethnically and Cultural diversity, cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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