1890 DMB World Series-Brooklyn Bridegrooms

 

 

 

1)Tom Lovett-P, 2)George Pinkney-3B, 3) Pop Corkhill-CF, 4) Bob Caruthers-P, 5) Darby O’Brien-LF, 6) Bob Ckark-C,

7) Dave Foutz-1B, 8.) Bill McGunnigle-Mgr, 9) Mickey Hughes-P, 10) Bill Terry-P, 11) Oyster Burns-RF, 12) Doc Bushong-C

13) Hub Collins-2B, 14) Tom Daley-C, 15) Germany Smith-SS

This team photo is used for both the 1889 and 1890 Bridegrooms in a lot of different sources. The teams are virtually identical, with the only change being the addition of Tom Daley at catcher.  Pop Corkhill continues to stare where no Bridegroom has stared before.

After finishing in 1st in the American Association in 1889, the Bridegrooms switched allegiances and moved the franchise to the more stable National League for the 1890 season. Their 1st place finish would make them the only team to win back to back pennants in two different major leagues.

Fielding essentially the same team from the previous season the Bridegrooms won the pennant by 6 games over the Chicago White Stockings.

The team scored more runs than any other team(884) and stole more bases(349). They had 8 players steal 20 or more bases with Hub Collins leading the team with 85. Oyster Burns led the league with 13 home runs and 128 rbis. Defensively they had the best fielding percentage in the league with .940. Averaging a miniscule 2.48 errors per game.

On the mound they went with a strict 3 man rotation with Tom Lovett, Adonis Terry, and Bob Caruthers starting 118 of the 129 games played, winning 30, 26, and 23 respectively.

In the best of 7 series against the Cyclones/Colonels the series ended without a champion, 3-3 with 1 tie.

Adonis Terry easily won game 1, 9-0, and the Bridegrooms also won game 2 behind Tom Lovett, 5-3. Game 3 ended in a 7-7 tie. The crowds over the final 4 games struggled to reach 1,100 fans as had been the norm for many of these post season series. The Cyclones would win game 4  by a score of 5-4, and before the teams could play game 5 they had to wait 4 days due to heavy rains.

Brooklyn would win game 5, 7-4 to take a 3-1 lead in the series. But the fans not wanting to brave the late October cold stayed home in droves. Only 600 fans showed up for game 6, and only 300 showed up for game 7, both losses by Brooklyn. Both teams decided to settle for the 3-3 tie. The fans didn’t seem to care.

Even though the American Association would play 1 more season, this would be the last post season series meeting between the 2 leagues. The Leagues had met in a post season series in each of the last 7 seasons, with the NL winning 4, the AA 1, with 2 series ending in a tie.

1890 DMB World Series-Biography: Tom “Oyster” Burns

 

 

Thomas P. Burns “Oyster”

Born: 9/6/1864- Philadelphia, Pa

Died: 11/11/1928- Brooklyn, NY

Oyster Burns, to me, always had one of the more unusual nicknames in baseball. I chose him for this year’s biography just to find out how he got the name.  I still don’t know how he got his name.

Some sources claim that he got the name because he worked on an oyster farm during the off season. While other sources, such as Bill James, claim that this nickname was bestowed upon Thomas P. Burns by historians to distinguish him from another Tom Burns that played in the 1880’s and 90’s. When he died in 1928 there was no mention in his obituary of his molluskian moniker. (Molluskian is not a real word, but it should be.) Both baseball cards that I could find of him has him listed as just Burns. So during his playing days he may have just been Tom Burns, but to me he’ll always be Oyster.

He made his ML debut in 1884 with the Union Association Wilmington Quicksteps. Half way through the season he was sent to the Baltimore Orioles of the AA. He played in 35 games, hitting .298 with 6 HRs. All at the tender age of 19.

After a poor start in 1885 he was released and sent to Newark in the Eastern League. He returned to Baltimore in 1887 and so impressed Mgr. Billie Barnie that he was named        team captain. He had a .341 avg. and a league leading 19 triples. The next season there was some tension between the Oyster and the manager, and he not only was not named team captain but he was sold to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms half way through the season. He would spend 6 seasons with Brooklyn befor finishing his career with the NY Giants in 1895.

In 1890 he would lead the NL in HRs with 16 and in rbis with 128, and would help the Bridegrooms win their 1st NL pennant. He would become the 1st Bridegroom to hit for the cycle on 8/1/1890.

He was considered a natural leader and a clutch hitter, with a strong throwing arm. He would finish his career with exactly a .300 average, retiring at the age of 30.

After his retirement he would do a little umpiring as well as managing in the New England League for several seasons.

He would die in Brooklyn in 1928 at the age of 64.

Batting Record
Year Team                     G    AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI   BB   SO HBP  SH   SB   AVG   OBP   SLG   BFW Year Team
1884 WIL U                    2     7    0    1   0   1   0         1                 0  .143  .250  .429   0.0 1884 WIL U
1884 BAL a                   35   131   34   39   2   6   6   23    7        3           .298  .348  .542   0.6 1884 BAL a
1884 Total                   37   138   34   40   2   7   6   23i   8        3i       0i .290  .342  .536   0.6 1884 Total
1885 BAL a                   78   321   47   74  11   6   5   37   16        6           .231  .280  .349   0.1 1885 BAL a
1887 BAL a                  140   551  122  188  33  19   9   99   63        5       58  .341  .414  .519   3.2 1887 BAL a
1888 BAL a                   79   325   54   97  18   9   4   42   24        1       23  .298  .349  .446   1.1 1888 BAL a
1888 BRO a                   52   204   40   58   9   6   2   25   14        3       21  .284  .339  .417   0.1 1888 BRO a
1888 TOT a                  131   529   94  155  27  15   6   67   38        4       44  .293  .345  .435   1.2 1888 TOT a
1889 BRO a                  131   504  105  153  19  13   5  100   68   26   4       32  .304  .391  .423   1.2 1889 BRO a
1890 BRO N                  119   472  102  134  22  12  13  128   51   42   4       21  .284  .359  .464   1.6 1890 BRO N
1891 BRO N                  123   470   75  134  24  13   4   83   53   30   0       21  .285  .358  .417   1.2 1891 BRO N
1892 BRO N                  141   542   88  171  27  18   4   96   65   42   6       33  .315  .395  .454   2.2 1892 BRO N
1893 BRO N                  109   415   68  112  22   8   7   60   36   16   4       14  .270  .334  .412  -0.4 1893 BRO N
1894 BRO N                  125   505  106  179  32  14   5  107   44   18   3   9   30  .354  .409  .503   1.0 1894 BRO N
1895 BRO N                   20    76    7   14   0   1   0    7    8    2   1   0    0  .184  .271  .211  -0.8 1895 BRO N
1895 NY  N                   33   114   21   35   5   3   1   25   14    6   1   1   10  .307  .388  .430  -0.1 1895 NY  N
1895 TOT N                   53   190   28   49   5   4   1   32   22    8   2   1   10  .258  .341  .342  -0.9 1895 TOT N
Total NL ( 6 Years)         670  2594  467  779 132  69  34  506  271  156  19  10i 129  .300  .371  .444   4.7 Total NL
Total AA ( 5 Years)         515  2036  402  609  92  59  31  326  192   26i 22      134i .299  .366  .448   6.3 Total AA
Total UA ( 1 Year )           2     7    0    1   0   1   0         1                 0  .143  .250  .429   0.0 Total UA
Total    (11 Years)        1187  4637  869 1389 224 129  65  832i 464  182i 41i 10i 263i .300  .368  .446  11.0 Total
Year Team                     G    AB    R    H  2B  3B  HR  RBI   BB   SO HBP  SH   SB   AVG   OBP   SLG   BFW Year Team

1890 DMB World Series-Louisville Cyclones ????

 

If you’ve been paying attention you might have noticed that the American Association 1889 last place Louisville Colonels, have become the 1890 1st place Louisville Cyclones. And that in the final 1891 American Association season that they revert back to the Colonels once again.

What gives Mr. Replayer?

It is my opinion, and many others, that the supreme authority on the players and teams of 19th Century baseball is David Nemec. I have mentioned his book The Great Encyclopedia Of 19th Century Major League Baseball  on several occasions in this blog. Whenever there is a discrepancy in the name of a particular team, such as the 1890 Cyclones, the 1885 Pittsburgh Alleghenys, or the 1886 New York Giants, among many other examples, I will always choose the name listed in the above encyclopedia.

He explains his reasoning and I agree with him, that team nicknames in the early days of baseball were not etched in stone as they were later on. It is virtually impossible to determine when or by whm a teams nickname was bestowed. Many teams were referred to by different names throughout a season, some merely at the whim of a particular sportswriter. So his choice for that seasons nickname is based on the consensus of his primary resources. It may be confusing but I think it adds to the overall realism of this replay. As a Yankee fan I will be tempted to overlook the years that they were called the Highlanders, but I will stay the course for the sake of this blog.

So…….Why the Cyclones?

In March of 1890 the Louisville area was decimated by a horrific cyclone that killed more than 100 people. When the then Louisville Colonels tried to play a benefit game to aide the victims, it was snowed out. Fearing a jinx the people started calling the team the Cyclones, and it stuck, at least for that season.

1890-Year in Review

 

On Nov. 4 1889 John Ward severed ties with the National League and formed the Players League. This rival professional League had the players, they had the fans, but they didn’t have the money or the clout to compete with the National League, and they folded after one season.

The Players League  abolished the reserve clause. A player could not be traded without consent. A player could not be released until it was approved by the Board of Directors of that team. They banned the sale of alcohol at the ball park, did not play on Sunday, and maintained the status quo by “unofficially” banning black players.

Of the 124 players that played over 10 games in the Players League, 81 of them had played for the NL or AA  Some of the stars that signed on with the new league were Mike Kelly, Tim Keefe, Hardy Richardson, Harry Stovey, Dan Brouthers, Hoss Radbourn, Pete Browning, Buck Ewing, and Silver King among many others.

Competing in established NL and AA cities such as Brooklyn, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the PL easily outdrew the AA in attendance. The NL and the PL “misrepresented” their attendance figures as both leagues claimed to drew well in all the competing cities. Despite inaccuracies in the attendance figures the PL clearly competed well with the NL in drawing in fans.

Unfortunately every team in the PL lost money. The players started to realize that the PL was a good idea, but years ahead of its time. Owners were reluctant to lose any more money and the league folded on January 14, 1891.

In the American Association the wheels were falling off. Cincinnati and Brooklyn jumped ship and headed to the National League. Seeing the writing on the wall the Baltimore and Kansas City franchises folded. Things were not going so well with the AA decision to play Sunday ball. Protests outside of every park kept attendance down on what should have been a day full of paying customers.

With only 4 teams the AA added franchises in Toledo, Rochester, Syracuse, and the Brooklyn Gladiators. For the inquisitive, the Toledo Maumees derived their name from a city near Toledo that is the anglicized spelling of the Miami Indians.

More signs of trouble for the AA included the folding of the Baltimore Orioles after just 38 games. The Philadelphia A’s ran out of money near the end of the season, causing many players to bail when they found out they would not be receiving a paycheck. Manager Bill Sharsig had to put together a patchwork team that lost their last 22 game of the seasons.

Louisville won the AA pennant primarily due to the fact that they did not lose any significant players to the Players League.

The NL welcomed the AA champion Brooklyn Bridegrooms as well as the AA Cincinnati Reds.

Gone were the Indianapolis Hoosiers and the Washington Statesmen. The Bridegrooms would win the NL pennant becoming the only team to ever win pennants in consecutive seasons in 2 different major leagues.

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE:

Mike Tiernan(NYG) of the NL hit a HR off Kid Nichols that cleared the centerfield wall in the Polo Grounds and landed in the Polo Grounds of the PL NY Giants. The Players League crowd gave him a hearty round of applause.

On Labor day the Pittsburgh Infants had the ignominious distinction of losing all 3 games of a triple header against the Bridegrooms.

On 4/22 the A’s stole a record 19 bases against Syracuse’s rookie catcher Grant Briggs. Welcome to the big leagues kid.

On 5/31 George Gore, Buck Ewing, and Roger Connor of the PL NY Giants became the 1st teammates to hit back-to-back-to-back home runs.

On 7/23 Harry Stovey became the 1st player to accumulate 100 home runs.

On 8/6 Cy Young made his ML debut with the Cleveland Spiders.

At the end of the Season the Bridegrooms and the Cyclones met in the last post season matchup between the NL and the AA. It would end in an unresolved 3-3 tie.

 

 

1890 Final Standings

NL

Team Name                        G    W    L    T   PCT    GB    RS   RA
Brooklyn Bridegrooms           129   86   43    0  .667     -   884  621
Chicago Colts                  139   83   53    3  .610   6.5   850  692
Philadelphia Phillies          133   78   53    2  .595   9.0   823  707
Cincinnati Reds                134   77   55    2  .583  10.5   753  633
Boston Beaneaters              134   76   57    1  .571  12.0   765  594
New York Giants                135   63   68    4  .481  24.0   710  698
Cleveland Spiders              136   44   88    4  .333  43.5   625  832
Pittsburgh Infants             138   23  113    2  .169  66.5   599 1232

AA

Team Name                        G    W    L    T   PCT    GB    RS   RA
Louisville Cyclones            136   88   44    4  .667     -   820  584
Columbus Solons                140   79   55    6  .590  10.0   830  615
St. Louis Browns               139   78   58    3  .574  12.0   864  736
Toledo Maumees                 134   68   64    2  .515  20.0   738  690
Rochester Hop Bitters          133   63   63    7  .500  22.0   709  710
Baltimore Orioles               38   15   19    4  .441  24.0   182  192
Syracuse Stars                 128   55   72    1  .433  30.5   699  831
Philadelphia Athletics         132   54   78    0  .409  34.0   702  945
Brooklyn Gladiators            100   26   73    1  .263  45.5   492  733

PL

Team Name                        G    W    L    T   PCT    GB    RS   RA
Boston Reds                    130   81   48    1  .628     -   992  767
Brooklyn Ward’s Wonders        133   76   56    1  .576   6.5   962  893
New York Giants (P)            132   74   57    1  .565   8.0  1017  875
Chicago White Stockings        138   75   62    1  .547  10.0   886  770
Philadelphia Quakers           132   68   63    1  .519  14.0   941  853
Pittsburgh Burghers            128   60   68    0  .469  20.5   835  892
Cleveland Infants              131   55   75    1  .423  26.5   849 1026
Buffalo Bisons                 134   36   96    2  .273  46.5   793 1199

NATIONAL LEAGUE	AMERICAN ASSOCIATION	PLAYERS LEAGUE
AVG: Jack Glasscock(NY)- .336	AVG: Jimmy Wolf(LSV)- .363	AVG: Pete Browning(CLEV)-.373
HR: Oyster Burns(BRK)- 13                        Walt Wilmot(CHI)-   13                        Mike Tiernan(NY)-   13	HR: Count Campau(STL)- 9                     9…..9 home runs..Ah, ah, ah!!!	HR: Roger Connor(NY)- 14
RBIs: Oyster Burns(BRK)- 128	RBIs: Spud Johnson(COL)- 113	RBIs: Hardy Richardson(BOST)-146
WINS: Bill Hutchison(CHI)- 42	WINS: Sadie McMahon(PHIL)- 36	WINS: Mark Baldwin(CHIC)- 34
ERA: Billy Rhines(Cin)- 1.95	ERA: Scott Stratton(LSV)- 2.36	ERA: Silver King(CHIC)- 2.69
K’S: Amos Rusie(NY)- 341	K’S: Sadie McMahon(PHIL)- 291	K’S: Mark Baldwin(CHIC)- 211

WORLD EVENTS:

                                                                    

“I refuse to join a club that would have me as a member”       “ You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.”

BORN:

1/11- Max Carey

2/10- Boris Pasternak (Wrote Doctor Zhivago)

2/20- Sam Rice

5/19- Ho Chi Minh (President of North Vietnam)

6/16- Stan Laurel (Good personal friend of Oliver Hardy)

7/30- Casey Stengel

8/10- Buck Weaver

8/20- H. P. Lovecraft

9/15- Agatha Christie

10/2- Groucho Marx (My favorite Marx brother)

10/8- Eddie Rickenbacker (My favorite flying ace)

10/14- Dwight Eisenhower (President on the year of my birth)

11/22- Charles DeGaulle

DIED:

4/11- Joseph Merrick(Elephant man)

6/29- Vincent Van Gogh(suicide)

12/15- Sitting Bull

12/26- Heinrich Schliemann (Found the lost city of Troy)

EVENTS:

1/25- United Mine Workers of America is founded

6/20- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is published

7/3- Idaho becomes the 43rd state

7/10- Wyoming becomes the 44th state

11/29- The 1st Army/Navy game is played with the Navy winning 24-0

DMB World Series Trivia Contest #1-Winner

 

The results are in and we have a winner in the 1st DMB World Series trivia contest.

THE QUESTION:

Based on extensive research(5 minutes) I determined that there were a handful of Hall Of Famers that were represented on their plaques with a beard or glasses. How many were there?

BEARDS:

 

   Alexander Cartwright

     Henry Chadwick

        Bruce Sutter

GLASSES:

        Ban Johnson

      Bill McKechnie

      Bowie Kuhn

     Branch Rickey

      Chick Hafey

     Walter O’Malley

     William Harridge

     Reggie Jackson

The Grand total is Beards-3, with Bruce Sutter really giving his all, and Glasses-8.

The winner is Ron from the Baseball Over Here blog he correctly guessed 3 beards, and missed the glasses total by only 3.

Thank You for all who participated, I’ll be doing this again, with another obscure question.

Ron, please email me with your home address(keving1701@gmail.com) and provide me with up to 4 different ball players that you would like me to use. I’ll get those spiffy address labels out to you ASAP.

 

1889 DMB World Series-Game #4

 

Cannonball Crane vs Adonis Terry 10/23/1889, @, Brooklyn Park

 

GIANTS BRING OUT THE BROOMS TO FINISH THE GROOMS

 

Iambic pentameter aside, the Giants scored early and then pushed across a run in the 9th against a wild Adonis Terry to win their 1st DMB World Series.

With the bases loaded in the 1st, Roger Connor smacked a bases clearing triple off the centerfield wall and later scored to put the Giants up 4-0. The Bridegrooms pecked away, scoring runs in each of the 1st 4 innings as Cannonball Crane struggled with his control giving up a DMB World Series record 9 walks.

With 2 outs in the 8th Crane walked the next 2 batters and Dave Foutz grounded a single into right to tie the score at 5.

In The Giants 9th John Ward stroked a single to center to lead off the inning. He stole 2nd and then Adonis Terry walked his 6th and 7th batters to load the bases. George Gore hit a flyball to score Ward with the winning run.

With 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th, just to make things interesting Crane walked Pop Corkhill and Bob Clark. Joe Visner flew out to left to end the game.

SUMMARY: The Bridegrooms did not hit, batting only .190 as a team. Both pitching staffs struggled with control, allowing 40 walks in the 4 games.  Mike Tiernan and Roger Connor provided plenty of offense for the Giants, combining to drive in more than half the runs that the Giants scored in this series.

MVP is another tough one. Cannonball Crane won 2 games but didn’t dominate. George Gore led all batters with a .538 average. But Roger Connor and Mike Tiernan did the most damage. I could give co-MVPs, but……why not??? Since MLB started giving out the award starting with the 1955 World Series there have been Co-MVPS twice. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling in 2001(Don’t remind me) and in 1981 there was Co-Co-MVPs  with Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, and Steve Yeager(I lost $20 on that World Series)

So Mike Tiernan and Roger Connor will share the 1889 MVP Award

                                                                              

                                    Co-MVPs-Mike Tiernan         Roger Connor

                                                 .368, 7 rbis            .438, 5 rbis

10/23/1889, NYG89-BKL89, Brooklyn Park
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1889 Giants            4  0  0  1  0  0  1  0  1     7 10  3    10  1
1889 Bridegrooms       1  2  1  1  0  0  0  1  0     6  8  2    11  1

Giants               AB  R  H BI   AVG    Bridegrooms          AB  R  H BI   AVG
Tiernan           rf  4  2  1  1  .368    Collins           2b  3  0  1  2  .200
Ward              ss  5  2  2  0  .316    Foutz             1b  5  1  1  0  .176
O’Rourke          lf  4  1  1  0  .294    Burns             rf  4  1  2  0  .118
Connor            1b  4  1  3  3  .438    O’Brien           lf  4  1  2  2  .389
Ewing             c   1  0  0  0  .250    Pinkney           3b  5  0  0  0  .118
Gore              cf  2  0  1  2  .538    Corkhill          cf  4  0  0  0  .267
Richardson        2b  4  0  1  1  .235    Smith             ss  3  0  0  0  .067
Whitney           3b  4  1  1  0  .133     Clark            ph  0  0  0  0  .000
Crane             p   4  0  0  0  .125    Visner            c   4  1  1  1  .182
                     32  7 10  7          Terry             p   3  2  1  0  .125
                                                               35  6  8  5

Giants                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Crane            W 2-0           9.0  8  6  3  9  2 176  89  2.00
                                 9.0  8  6  3  9  2 176  89
Bridegrooms                      INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Terry            L 0-2           9.0 10  7  6  7  3 143  82  3.98
                                 9.0 10  7  6  7  3 143  82

BKL: Clark batted for Smith in the 9th
E-O’Rourke, Connor, Richardson, Collins 2. 2B-Burns, Terry. 3B-Connor.
SB-Ward(3). K-O’Rourke, Ewing, Whitney, O’Brien, Visner. BB-O’Rourke, Connor,
Ewing 4, Gore, Collins 2, Burns, O’Brien, Corkhill, Smith, Visner, Terry,
Clark. SH-Whitney. SF-Tiernan, Gore, Richardson. HBP-Gore. HB-Terry.
WP-Crane 2, Terry.
GWRBI: Gore
Temperature: 68, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 6 MPH

DMB team batting — 1889 New York Giants                             
                              League championship — as of 10/23/1889                              

S Name               P    AVG   OBP   SPC    G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS
  Welch              sp  .667  .667  .667    1    3    2   0   0   0    0    0    0    1   0   0   0   0
  Gore*              cf  .538  .611  .615    4   13    7   1   0   0    5    3    3    0   1   2   0   0
  Connor*            1b  .438  .524  .688    4   16    7   2   1   0    3    5    4    0   0   1   0   0
  Tiernan*           rf  .368  .381  .474    4   19    7   2   0   0    3    7    1    0   0   0   0   0
  Ward*              ss  .316  .381  .368    4   19    6   1   0   0    4    3    2    0   0   1   3   1
  O’Rourke           lf  .294  .400  .353    4   17    5   1   0   0    2    0    3    5   0   1   2   0
  Ewing              c   .250  .429  .250    4   16    4   0   0   0    1    1    5    1   0   0   0   0
  Richardson         2b  .235  .263  .294    4   17    4   1   0   0    2    3    1    2   0   0   0   0
  Whitney            3b  .133  .235  .133    4   15    2   0   0   0    2    1    2    3   0   0   0   0
  Crane              sp  .125  .125  .125    2    8    1   0   0   0    2    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Keefe              sp  .000  .000  .000    1    5    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    2   0   0   0   0
  Total                  .304  .385  .372    4  148   45   8   1   0   24   23   21   14   1   5   5   1

                           DMB team batting — 1889 Brooklyn Bridegrooms                           
                              League championship — as of 10/23/1889                              

S Name               P    AVG   OBP   SPC    G   AB    H  2B  3B  HR    R  RBI   BB    K HBP  IW  SB  CS
  Caruthers*         sp  .500  .500 1.000    1    4    2   2   0   0    0    1    0    1   0   0   0   0
  O’Brien            of  .389  .421  .389    4   18    7   0   0   0    3    2    1    4   0   0   0   0
  Corkhill*          cf  .267  .353  .267    4   15    4   0   0   0    0    1    2    0   0   0   0   1
  Collins            2b  .200  .400  .200    4   15    3   0   0   0    2    2    5    0   0   0   1   0
  Visner*            c   .182  .286  .455    3   11    2   0   0   1    3    3    2    3   0   0   0   0
  Foutz              1b  .176  .222  .294    4   17    3   0   1   0    1    2    1    0   0   0   0   0
  Terry              sp  .125  .222  .250    3    8    1   1   0   0    2    0    1    0   0   0   0   0
  Burns              rf  .118  .211  .176    4   17    2   1   0   0    1    0    1    1   1   0   0   0
  Pinkney            3b  .118  .211  .176    4   17    2   1   0   0    0    0    2    1   0   0   0   0
  Smith              ss  .067  .176  .067    4   15    1   0   0   0    1    0    2    2   0   0   0   0
  Clark              c   .000  .500  .000    2    2    0   0   0   0    0    0    2    0   0   0   0   0
  Hughes             sp  .000  .000  .000    1    3    0   0   0   0    0    0    0    0   0   0   0   0
  Total                  .190  .288  .261    4  142   27   5   1   1   13   11   19   12   1   0   1   1

DMB team pitching — 1889 New York Giants                             
                              League championship — as of 10/23/1889                              

S Name               P     ERA   W   L   S   G  GS  CG SHO     INN    H    R   ER   BB    K  HR GDP    BF
  Welch              sp   0.00   1   0   0   1   1   1   1     9.0    3    0    0    2    2   0   0    33
  Crane              sp   2.00   2   0   0   2   2   2   0    18.0   16   10    4   11    8   0   1    85
  Keefe              sp   2.45   1   0   0   1   1   1   0    11.0    8    3    3    6    2   1   2    46
  Total                   1.66   4   0   0   4   4   4   1    38.0   27   13    7   19   12   1   3   164

                           DMB team pitching — 1889 Brooklyn Bridegrooms                          
                              League championship — as of 10/23/1889                              

S Name               P     ERA   W   L   S   G  GS  CG SHO     INN    H    R   ER   BB    K  HR GDP    BF
  Caruthers          sp   1.00   0   1   0   1   1   1   0     9.0   12    7    1    0    0   0   1    41
  Terry              sp   3.98   0   2   0   3   2   2   0    20.1   20   11    9   15   11   0   3    96
  Hughes             sp   6.14   0   1   0   1   1   0   0     7.1   13    6    5    6    3   0   1    40
  Total                   3.68   0   4   0   4   4   3   0    36.2   45   24   15   21   14   0   5   177

                     

Cap Anson and Buck Ewing downing some ale, or maybe a lot of ale, based on the empties.

With the completion of the 1889 World Series, this is your last chance to enter The DMB World Series Trivia Contest.

The winner will be announced on Friday. Take a chance, it only requires a guess of 2 numbers. And so far, nobody has given the right answer.

1889 DMB World Series-Game #3

Mickey Hughes vs Mickey Welch 10/22/1889, @ Polo Grounds

 

WELCH TOSSES A GEM AS GIANTS WIN EASILY

 

Mickey Welch threw no hit ball into the 7th inning and finished with a masterful 3 hit shutout. His counterpart Mickey Hughes, despite only 9 regular season wins  got the surprise start and struggled through 7 innings, allowing 13 hits and 6 walks.

The Giants scored all the runs they needed in a 3 run 3rd. Mike Tiernan drove in 2 more runs with a single, his 7th rbi in this series.

10/22/1889, BKL89-NYG89, Polo Grounds
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1889 Bridegrooms       0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     0  3  3     6  2
1889 Giants            0  0  3  0  1  0  2  0  x     6 13  2    11  0

Bridegrooms          AB  R  H BI   AVG    Giants               AB  R  H BI   AVG
Collins           2b  4  0  1  0  .167    Tiernan           rf  4  1  3  2  .400
Foutz             1b  4  0  0  0  .167    Ward              ss  5  1  1  1  .286
Burns             rf  4  0  0  0  .000    O’Rourke          lf  3  1  2  0  .308
Pinkney           3b  4  0  0  0  .167    Connor            1b  2  0  1  2  .333
O’Brien           lf  4  0  2  0  .357    Ewing             c   5  0  1  0  .267
Smith             ss  4  0  0  0  .083    Richardson        2b  4  1  0  0  .231
Corkhill          cf  2  0  0  0  .364    Whitney           3b  2  1  0  0  .091
Clark             c   2  0  0  0  .000    Gore              cf  4  1  3  1  .545
Hughes            p   3  0  0  0  .000    Welch             p   3  0  2  0  .667
Terry            p   0  0  0  0  .000                         32  6 13  6
                     31  0  3  0

Bridegrooms                      INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Hughes           L 0-1           7.1 13  6  5  6  3 148  82  6.14
Terry                            0.2  0  0  0  0  0   1   1  2.38
                                 8.0 13  6  5  6  3 149  83

Giants                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Welch            W 1-0           9.0  3  0  0  2  2 121  75  0.00
                                 9.0  3  0  0  2  2 121  75

E-Foutz, Clark 2, Richardson, Whitney. 2B-Ward, Connor. SB-O’Rourke 2(2).
CS-Corkhill, Ward. K-Burns, Smith, Richardson, Whitney, Welch. BB-Corkhill,
Clark, Tiernan, O’Rourke, Connor 2, Whitney 2. SH-O’Rourke, Welch. SF-Connor.
GWRBI: Tiernan
Temperature: 70, Sky: clear, Wind: in from left at 10 MPH.

This is a display poster(only 6 are known to still exist) for the 1887 Allen and Ginter tobacco card set, the 1st nationally distributed card set. It  featured not only baseball players, but wrestlers, boxers, rowers, and billiard players. The  irrepressible wrestler Matsada Sorakichi is pictured in the middle of the display, just below Annie Oakley, the only female in the set.

Don’t forget to enter the DMB World Series Replay Trivia Contest. It’s free, it’s fun, and all it takes is a guess and you could be the big winner.

1889 DMB World Series-Game #2

Cannonball Crane vs Bob Caruthers 10/19/1889, @ Brooklyn Park

 

TIERNAN DRIVES IN 4 AS GIANTS TAKE GAME 2

 

Mike Tiernan’s 2-out double in the 6th drove in the final 2 runs of a Giant 4 run outburst that erased a 4-2 Bridegroom’s lead. The Bridegrooms had scored in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th innings to take a 2 run lead, but Cannonball Crane threw shutout ball over the final 5 innings to get the win.

 

10/19/1889, NYG89-BKL89, Brooklyn Park
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1889 Giants            0  0  2  0  0  4  0  1  0     7 12  5     7  0
1889 Bridegrooms       0  1  1  2  0  0  0  0  0     4  8  4    10  1

Giants               AB  R  H BI   AVG    Bridegrooms          AB  R  H BI   AVG
Tiernan           rf  5  0  2  4  .273    Collins           2b  4  1  1  0  .125
Ward              ss  5  0  0  1  .333    Foutz             1b  4  0  1  1  .250
O’Rourke          lf  5  0  2  0  .200    Burns             rf  4  0  0  0  .000
Connor            1b  5  1  1  0  .300    Pinkney           3b  4  0  1  0  .250
Ewing             c   5  1  2  1  .300    O’Brien           lf  5  1  1  0  .300
Richardson        2b  4  0  2  1  .333    Smith             ss  4  1  0  0  .125
Whitney           3b  4  0  0  0  .111    Corkhill          cf  4  0  2  0  .444
Gore              cf  4  3  2  0  .429    Visner            c   3  1  0  1  .143
Crane             p   4  2  1  0  .250    Caruthers         p   4  0  2  1  .500
                     41  7 12  7                               36  4  8  3

Giants                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Crane            W 1-0           9.0  8  4  1  2  6 147  90  1.00
                                 9.0  8  4  1  2  6 147  90
Bridegrooms                      INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Caruthers        L 0-1           9.0 12  7  1  0  0 126  88  1.00
                                 9.0 12  7  1  0  0 126  88

E-Ewing 2, Richardson, Whitney, Crane, Pinkney 2, O’Brien, Smith. 2B-Tiernan,
O’Rourke, Connor, Richardson, Caruthers 2. SB-Collins(1). K-Pinkney,
O’Brien 3, Visner, Caruthers. BB-Collins, Pinkney. SH-Foutz. SF-Visner.
HBP-Burns. PB-Visner 3. HB-Crane. WP-Crane 2.
GWRBI: Tiernan
Temperature: 72, Field: wet, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind:
in from center at 21 MPH.

Don’t forget to enter the DMB World Series Trivia Contest. Guess right and you’ll achieve fame and fortune.

DMB World Series Replay Contest #1

 

In a blatant attempt to drive readership to this blog I’ve decided to run a trivia contest, with an actual prize. You could be the proud owner of a set of 60, that’s right 60 return address labels with your favorite 19th century ball player prominently displayed on each label. These labels are 2/3”x1 3/4”  in size and will look fantastic sitting in the left hand corner of all your correspondence. 

 

      The label will look better than the label shown above.

Here are the rules for your chance to win this one of a kind piece of Baseball Americana:

1. Correctly answer the trivia question in the comments section.

2. The 1st correct answer is the winner.

3. One guess per person.

4. No googling……I’d like a gentlemen’s agreement that your answer will be strictly based on a guess.(I…….state your name…….promise to guess and only guess the answer to this trivia question)

5. Tell a fellow baseball fan(or several) about this blog, and have them submit a guess. (Again….I’m trusting you on this one) 

6. The winner will be announced at the end of the 1889 World Series.

7. The winner will have to contact me via email with your address, and the ball player(s) that you would like displayed on your label.

8. The answer to the trivia question is based on my research, so there is a slight chance my research could be flawed. Hey…mistakes happen !!

9. In the event that nobody gets the correct answer, the person closest to the actual answer will be the winner.

THE QUESTION:

If you’ve been following this blog, then you know I have a thing about the high percentage of mustaches on the 19th century ball player. So of course this question has nothing to do with mustaches, but it does have something to do with beards.

There are 286 plaques hanging in the Hall of Fame, a lot of which have the person displayed with a mustache, some with glasses, some with a full beard, and one displaying a female(Eppa Manley).

How many people are wearing glasses?(if any)

How many have a full beard?(if any)

When placing your guess in the comments section answer the question like so:

Glasses-(#)

Beard-(#)

Your Name

Remember these are only people that have plaques: players, executives, pioneers, and umpires. This does not include writers or announcers.

Good Luck……No Googling……..and tell a friend.

1889 DMB World Series- Game #1

 

 

Mickey Welch-Monte Ward

Tim Keefe-Roger Connor

Adonis Terry vs Tim Keefe 10/18/1889, @, Polo Grounds

 

GIANTS WIN IN EXTRA INNINGS TO TAKE GAME 1

 

Danny Richardson blooped a 2 out bases loaded single into centerfield in the bottom of the 11th to score John Ward and give the Giants a hard fought game one victory over the Bridegrooms.

The Giants took a 3-1 lead into the 9th but Bridegrooms catcher Joe Visner led off the inning with a long Home Run to right to bring the Bridegrooms to within one. Hub Collins walked and scored on Dave Foutz’s triple tying the score at 3.

In the Giants 9th Danny Richardson had a chance to win the game but he popped out with the bases loaded, setting himself up for his 11th inning heroics.

Both Adonis Terry and Tim Keefe struggled with the strike zone allowing 14 walks in the game. Terry also struck out 8, including Jim O’Rourke a DMB record 4 times. The 1st Golden Sombrero in this replay.

10/18/1889, BKL89-NYG89, Polo Grounds
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11     R  H  E   LOB DP
1889 Bridegrooms       0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  2  0  0     3  8  4    10  1
1889 Giants            0  1  0  0  1  0  0  1  0  0  1     4 10  1    15  2

Bridegrooms          AB  R  H BI   AVG    Giants               AB  R  H BI   AVG
Collins           2b  4  1  0  0  .000    Tiernan           rf  6  0  1  0  .167
Foutz             1b  4  0  1  1  .250    Ward              ss  4  1  3  1  .750
Burns             rf  5  0  0  0  .000    O’Rourke          lf  5  0  0  0  .000
Pinkney           3b  4  0  1  0  .250    Connor            1b  5  1  2  0  .400
O’Brien           lf  5  1  2  0  .400    Ewing             c   5  0  1  0  .200
Smith             ss  4  0  1  0  .250    Richardson        2b  5  1  1  1  .200
Corkhill          cf  5  0  2  1  .400    Whitney           3b  5  0  1  1  .200
Visner            c   4  1  1  1  .250    Gore              cf  3  1  1  0  .333
Terry             p   5  0  0  0  .000    Keefe             p   5  0  0  0  .000
                     40  3  8  3                               43  4 10  3

Bridegrooms                      INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Terry            L 0-1          10.2 10  4  3  8  8 194 116  2.53
                                10.2 10  4  3  8  8 194 116
Giants                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Keefe            W 1-0          11.0  8  3  3  6  2 171 103  2.45
                                11.0  8  3  3  6  2 171 103

E-Foutz, Burns, Smith 2, Whitney. 2B-Pinkney, Tiernan, Gore. 3B-Foutz.
HR-Visner(1). SB-Ward 2(2). K-Smith, Visner, O’Rourke 4, Richardson, Whitney,
Keefe 2. BB-Collins 2, Foutz, Pinkney, Smith, Visner, Ward 2, O’Rourke,
Connor, Ewing, Richardson, Gore 2. PB-Visner. WP-Terry 3.
GWRBI: Richardson
Temperature: 62, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 5 MPH.