William T. McCaffrey was a professional baseball player who played

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

in the Major Leagues for the 1885 Cincinnati Red Stockings. His Major League debut came as the starting pitcher against the

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on June 15, 1885, a game McCaffrey and the Red Stockings won despite McCaffrey giving up 9 runs, 6 of them earned, as the Red Stockings scored 11 runs in the game against Brooklyn's starting pitcher Adonis Terry. In 1886, Terry played for the Wilkes-Barre's minor league team in the Pennsylvania State Association.

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