Spalding's Baseball Guide And Official League Book For 1889 Part 9

Rank NAME. CLUB. Number Chances Per Cent.

Games. Offered Accepted.

----+----------+-----------+------+-------+--------- 1 Hogan Cleveland 51 90 .988 2 McClellan Brooklyn 32 52 .962 and Cleveland 3 Nicol Cincinnati 124 218 .959 4 Hamilton Kansas City 29 35 .943 5 Foutz Brooklyn 78 251 .932 6 McCarthy St. Louis 118 276 .924 7 Purcell Athletic 111 182 .923 and Baltimore 8 Carruthers Brooklyn 31 80 .900 8 Cline Kansas City 44 80 .900 9 Poorman Athletic 85 134 .896 10 Wolf Louisville 83 158 .892 11 McTamany Kansas City 48 92 .891 12 Goodfellow Cleveland 51 100 .850 13 Kerins Louisville 35 61 .820

CENTER FIELDERS.

Rank NAME. CLUB. Number Chances Per Cent.

Games. Offered Accepted.

----+--------+-----------+-------+--------+--------- 1 Welch Athletic 135 309 .968 2 Corkhill Cincinnati 131 320 .966 and Brooklyn 3 Gilks Cleveland 26 50 .960 4 Radford Brooklyn 84 208 .947 5 Griffin Baltimore 137 323 .941 6 McTamany Kansas City 68 206 .932 7 Lyons St. Louis 108 267 .910 8 Weaver Louisville 26 49 .898 8 Rowe Kansas City 32 68 .897 9 Browning Louisville 78 181 .884 10 Hotaling Cleveland 97 200 .875 11 Collins Louisville 24 61 .852 and Brooklyn 12 O'Connor Cincinnati 19 39 .846

CLUB BATTING RECORD

Rank Clubs Number Times Runs Number Stolen Per cent of Games at Bat of Base Bases B. H. to Hits A. B.

----+-----------+--------+------+----+-------+------+------ 1 Athletic 136 4801 828 1262 568 .263 2 St. Louis 137 4753 790 1188 526 .250 3 Louisville 137 4807 678 1190 368 .248 4 Brooklyn 143 4868 757 1183 413 .243 5 Cincinnati 136 4762 734 1143 464 .240 6 Cleveland 134 4560 641 1073 399 .235 7 Baltimore 137 4654 653 1073 379 .231 8 Kansas City 132 4582 578 1011 266 .221 +--------+------+----+-------+------+------ Total 1092 37787 5659 9123 3383 .241

CLUB FIELDING RECORD.

Rank Clubs Number Put a.s.sists. Errors. Total Per c.

Of Outs. Chances Chances Games Offered. Accepted.

----+------------+------+-----+--------+-------+--------+--------- 1 Cincinnati 136 3671 2266 445 6382 .940 2 Athletic 136 3623 2315 422 6360 .934 3 St. Louis 137 3635 2092 432 6159 .930 4 Baltimore 137 3597 2226 452 6269 .928 5 Brooklyn 143 3851 2318 508 6677 .924 6 {Kansas City 132 3471 2321 500 6292 .921 {Cleveland 134 3484 2217 487 6188 .921 7 Louisville 137 3631 2307 566 6504 .913 +-----+--------+-------+--------+------- Total 8963 18056 3812 50831 .927

CHICAGO GAMES.

The following is the record of the "Chicago" games played in the American a.s.sociation champions.h.i.+p arena in 1888, games in which the defeated nine fails to score a single run:

CLUBS. K C L a S i B C o n V t B A n a l u s i . r t c l e i a c o h i t v s s t L o l n i e v o o k e n m l i C r u l t a o a l i i i y i t r n l t e s n c i e d e y s . . . . . . . . .

-----------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---++-- St. Louis -- 3 2 0 2 4 1 0 12 Brooklyn 1 -- 1 1 0 3 1 1 8 Athletic 1 1 -- 2 2 1 1 5 13 Cincinnati 1 1 1 -- 1 2 1 2 9 Baltimore 0 0 1 1 -- 0 0 1 3 Cleveland 1 0 0 2 1 -- 0 2 6 Louisville 0 2 0 1 1 2 -- 0 6 Kansas City 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 -- 4 +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---++--- Defeats 4 9 5 7 8 12 5 11 61

EXTRA INNINGS GAME.

The ganes-victories, defeats and drawn-which required extra innings to be played, were as follows:

Clubs K C L a S i B C o n V t B A n a l u s I . r t c l e i a c o h i t v s s t L o l n i e v o D o k e n m l i C r r u l t a o a l I i a i y i t r n l t e w s n c i e d e y s n . . . . . . . . . .

-----------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---++--+--- St. Louis -- 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 5 2 Brooklyn 2 -- 2 3 0 0 2 1 10 2 Athletic 1 1 -- 2 1 0 2 0 7 2 Cincinnati 3 2 2 -- 1 2 1 0 11 2 Baltimore 2 0 0 0 -- 0 1 0 3 0 Cleveland 0 0 1 1 0 -- 0 0 2 1 Louisville 0 0 2 0 0 0 -- 1 3 1 Kansas City 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 -- 1 0 +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---++--+--- Defeats 8 5 9 7 3 2 6 2 42 10

The record of the series of games won and lost by each club with every other club in the American a.s.sociation champions.h.i.+p arena in 1888 is as follows:

K C L a S i B o C n B t A n a u l s r . t c l i e a o h i t s v s o L l n i v e k o e n m i l C l u t a o l a i y I i t r l n t n s c i e e d y Series Clubs . . . . . . . . Totals.

-----------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----++-------- W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L. W. L.

-----------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--++--+----- Brooklyn -- -- 10 10 12 8 14 6 12 8 13 8 16 4 11 9 6 0 St. Louis 10 10 -- -- 10 7 10 8 15 5 16 4 16 4 16 4 4 0 Athletic 8 12 7 10 -- -- 10 10 15 5 15 5 13 7 11 3 4 1 Cincinnati 6 14 8 10 10 10 -- -- 14 6 17 3 10 7 15 4 3 1 Baltimore 8 12 5 15 5 15 6 14 -- -- 11 9 10 9 11 9 2 4 Louisville 8 13 4 16 5 15 3 17 9 11 -- -- 8 9 11 6 1 5 Cleveland 4 16 4 16 7 13 7 10 9 10 9 8 -- -- 9 9 0 3 Kansas City 9 11 4 16 3 14 4 15 9 11 6 11 9 9 -- -- 0 6

The St. Louis, Brooklyn, Athletic and Cincinnati Clubs, each had one series tied; while the Baltimore Club had four unfinished series; the St.

Louis and Cincinnati Clubs two each, and the Athletic, Baltimore, Louisville and Kansas City Clubs one each, The Brooklyn Club playing their full quota of scheduled games.

THE YEARLY RECORD.

The appended table gives the number of games won by all the clubs which have competed for the American a.s.sociation champions.h.i.+p from 1882 to 1888 inclusive:

Clubs 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 Yrs. Total Vict'r's ------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----++--------- St. Louis 37 65 67 79 92 94 92 7 526 Cincinnati 55 62 68 63 64 80 80 7 472 Athletic 41 66 61 55 60 64 81 7 428 Baltimore 19 28 63 41 48 76 57 7 332 Louisville 42 52 68 53 66 76 48 7 405 Metropolitan -- 54 75 44 53 43 -- 6 269 Pittsburg 39 30 30 56 78 -- -- 5 233 Brooklyn -- -- 40 53 76 59 88 5 316 Columbus -- 32 69 -- -- -- -- 2 104 Cleveland -- -- -- -- -- 38 50 2 88 Indianapolis -- -- 29 -- -- -- -- 1 29 Was.h.i.+ngton -- -- 12 -- -- -- -- 1 12 Virginia -- -- 12 -- -- -- -- 1 12 Kansas City -- -- -- -- -- -- 43 1 43 Toledo -- -- 46 -- -- -- -- 1 46 +----+----+----+----+----+----+----+---------- Total 233 389 640 444 537 530 539

A COMPARATIVE RECORD.

The following table gives the comparative figures of the League and the a.s.sociation in their Champions.h.i.+p contests in 1888:

Clubs Vic. Def Pct. Clubs Vic. Def. Pct.

-------------+----+----+------++-----------+----+----+------ New York 84 47 .641 St. Louis 92 43 .681 Chicago 77 58 .570 Brooklyn 88 52 .629 Philadelphia 69 61 .531 Athletic 82 52 .612 Boston 70 64 .522 Cincinnati 80 54 .597 Detroit 68 63 .519 Baltimore 57 81 .413 Pittsburg 66 68 .493 Cleveland 50 82 .379 Indianapolis 50 85 .370 Louisville 48 87 .356 Was.h.i.+ngton 48 86 .358 Kansas City 43 89 .328

NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN RECORDS.

The New York League Club and the Brooklyn American a.s.sociation Club closed the first six years of their existence in 1888. The New York Club joined the League in 1883, and won the champions.h.i.+p in 1888. The princ.i.p.al statistics of the club's work on the diamond field during that period is shown in the appended table:

Years Won. Lost. Drawn. Played. Batting Fielding Average. Average ------+-----+-----+------+-------+--------+-------- 1883 46 50 2 98 .256 .825 1884 62 50 4 116 .257 .816 1885 85 27 0 112 .269 .866 1886 75 44 5 124 .269 .853 1887 68 55 6 129 .331 .886 1888 84 47 7 138 .240 .918 +-----+-----+------+-------+--------+------ Totals 420 273 24 717 .270 .860

During these six seasons the New Yorks played 398 games with the Chicagos, Detroits, Bostons and Philadelphias, winning 223 and losing 175.

Of these four clubs the New Yorks found the Chicagos to be their strongest opponents, and the Bostons their weakest. One hundred games were played with each of the two clubs, the New Yorks winning sixty-one from Boston, and only forty-one from Chicago.

The Brooklyn Club began its career in 1883 by winning the champions.h.i.+p of the Interstate a.s.sociation of that year, and in 1884 the club entered the American a.s.sociation.

The following is the record of the Brooklyn Club's field work in the first six years of its history:

Years. Victories. Defeats. Games Drawn. Pr. Ct. of Played. Champ. Victs.

---------+----------+--------+-------+------+------------ 1883 65 33 101 3 .643 1884 57 75 136 4 .384 1885 83 67 142 2 .473 1886 91 63 160 6 .557 1887 78 80 156 4 .448 1888 88 52 160 3 .629 Totals +----------+--------+-------+------+--------- six years 462 370 875 22

Each club won champions.h.i.+p honors in but one season out of six, the Brooklyns beginning by winning a pennant, and the New Yorkers ending with champions.h.i.+p honors.

THE PHILADELPHIA CITY CHAMPIONs.h.i.+P.

The Philadelphia League Club and the American a.s.sociation Athletic Club played a spring and fall exhibition game series for the professional champions.h.i.+p of Philadelphia, the result of which was a victory for the American teams, as will be seen by the appended record:

ATHLETIC VICTORIES.

ATHLETIC VS. PHILADELPHIA.

------------------------------------- DATE. PITCHERS. Score.

------------------------------------- April 9 Seward, Gleason 4-2 April 11 Seward, Sanders 15-4 April 12 Weyhing Casey 7-1 April 14 Seward, Gleason 3-1 April 16 Weyhing, Tyng 13-7 October 18 Seward, Sanders 8-5 -------------------------------------

PHILADELPHIA VICTORIES.

PHILADELPHIA VS. ATHLETIC.

---------------------------------------- DATE. PITCHERS. Score.

--------------------------------------- April 13 Gleason, Mattimore 8-2 April 17 Buffinton, Blair 7-1 October 19 Casey, Weyhing 8-0 October 20 Buffinton, Smith 12-0

THE EXHIBITION GAME CAMPAIGN.

The experience of the season of 1888 in the playing of exhibition games during the spring and fall between League and American Clubs, shows that while the spring series prove attractive, owing to the desire of the patrons of the game to see how the club teams of the two organizations compare with each other in relative strength, preparatory to the opening of the champions.h.i.+p campaign in each arena; those played in the fall, after the two champions.h.i.+ps have been decided, have ceased to draw paying patronage. This decrease of interest in the fall exhibition games, too, has been largely due to the introduction of the World's Champions.h.i.+p series, which now monopolize public interest after the regular champions.h.i.+p season has ended. It has been proposed to subst.i.tute a series of regular champions.h.i.+p matches, on the basis of the series of the world's champions.h.i.+p contests for the old time fall exhibition games, the plan in question including not only games between the champions.h.i.+p teams of the League and the a.s.sociation, but also between all the eight clubs of each organization, so as to show which are the eight leading club teams of the League, and the American a.s.sociation. Had this plan been carried out in 1888, we should not only have had the interesting series between the two champion teams of New York and St. Louis, but also those between Chicago and Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Athletic, Boston and Cincinnati, Detroit and Baltimore, Pittsburg and Cleveland, Indianapolis and Louisville, and Was.h.i.+ngton and Kansas City. It is to be hoped that a grand test series of games of this character will mark the closing professional campaign of 1889, for such a series would subst.i.tute very interesting champions.h.i.+p matches for October in the place of the unmeaning and useless exhibition games of the past fall campaigns.