Charles R. Briggs (1860–1920) was a 19th-century American professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

second baseman and

outfielder An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball or softball, farthest from the batter. These defenders are the left fielder, the center fielder, and the right fielder. As an outfielder, their duty is to cat ...

. He played for the Chicago Browns in the

Union Association The Union Association was a league in Major League Baseball which lasted for just the 1884 season. St. Louis won the pennant and joined the National League the following season. Seven of the twelve teams who were in the Association at some poi ...

during the 1884 season. In 1888 he played minor league ball in the

Central Interstate League The Central Interstate League was an independent minor league baseball league that operated from 1888 to 1890. William H. Allen (1888), Henderson Ridgely (1889), E.T. McNeally (1890) and Fitzpatrick (1890) served as the league presidents. Th ...

and the Tri-State League.

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Major League Baseball second basemen Major League Baseball outfielders Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies players 19th-century baseball players Baseball players from Kane County, Illinois 1860 births 1920 deaths Canton Nadjys players Davenport (minor league baseball) players People from Batavia, Illinois {{US-baseball-outfielder-1860s-stub