4.
George McGinnis (SL)
2.33
5.
Tim Keefe (NY)
2.41
Win-Loss Percentage
1.
Tony Mullane (SL)
.700
2.
Bobby Mathews (PHI)
.698
3.
George Bradley (PHI)
.696
4.
Will White (CIN)
.662
5.
George McGinnis (SL)
.636
Innings Pitched
1.
Tim Keefe (NY)
619
2.
Will White (CIN)
577
3.
Frank Mountain (COL)
503
4.
Guy Hecker (LOU)
469
5.
Tony Mullane (SL)
460.2
Complete Games
1.
Tim Keefe (NY)
68
2.
Will White (CIN)
64
3.
Frank Mountain (COL)
57
4.
Guy Hecker (LOU)
51
5.
Tony Mullane (SL)
49
Strikeouts
1.
Tim Keefe (NY)
359
2.
Bobby Mathews (PHI)
203
3.
Tony Mullane (SL)
191
4.
Guy Hecker (LOU)
164
5.
Frank Mountain (COL)
159
NOTES
Preface: The Love Affair
ix “Did as much for baseball in St. Louis”: Spink, 301.
ix “In the next century”: Sullivan, 112.
xiv Pittsburgh (today’s Pirates): Pittsburgh switched to the National League in 1887, ahead of the other American Association clubs.
Chapter 1: In the Big Inning
1 “trombone tailory”: UST, May 31, 1908.
2 “flashy suit of clothes”: RCD, November 24, 1890.
2 Cyrano de Bergerac: BG, January 29, 1899.
2 “de piggest diamond”: CT, October 8, 1885.
2 “Vy did you drop dat ball”: HER, July 19, 1916.
2 “I don’t vant some foolishness”: CT, October 8, 1885.
3 “Poys, I am awful glad”: BE, January 30, 1898.
3 “take mine own advice”: SL, December 5, 1888.
3 “dragging the remnants”: AC, February 15, 1907.
3 On a roasting hot Sunday night: SLGD, August 12, 1885.
3 Miss Dewey had the nerve to show up: NYT, September 8, 1885.
3 “out late at night”: EDG, January 23, 1895.
4 “handsome young woman”: SN, January 1, 1898.
4 “shrewd, cunning and pugnacious”: AB, July 11, 1890. Reporter was W. I. Harris.
4 “Base ball vicissitudes”: BE, September 3, 1888.
5 “peculiarities of German customs”: Dacus, 383.
5 “A great blessing”: Bogen, 13.
5 “conviviality, camaraderie and good fellowship”: Olson, 134.
5 “Beer and wine the German”: Smalley, 5.
6 “In the old countries”: NYT, October 9, 1856.
6 “Formerly Americans drank”: CE, March 25, 1882.
6 “its inhabitants are pious”: Dacus, 383.
7 “floating palaces”: Kargau, 233–234.
7 “These Western cities”: Bishop, 497–498.
7 “Little tables are put out”: Ibid., 511.
7 Von der Ahe . . . was born: Familysearch.org, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Indexing Project Number J93019–2, Germany-ODM, Source Film Number 1051737.
8 desperate for work: Kargau, 208.
8 “any grocery store worth its salt”: Proetz, 58–59.
8 On March 3, 1870: Hetrick, 4.
9 In time, he had: SLGD, February 5, 1884.
9 [Solari] rented it out: SL, May 21, 1898.
9 “interested in pretzels”: SLR, June 6, 1913.
9 Councilman J. B. Woestman: Leonard, 618–619.
9 bribery scandal that spring: SLGD, April 1, 1876.
9 “none but the best amateur”: SLGD, March 2, 1876.
11 newspaper exposé charged: SLGD, August 3, 1877.
11 “But the baseball-loving public”: Spink, 46.
11 “gazed at the beggarly array”: SLGD, June 16, 1879.
12 “It was ‘Eddie’”: SLGD, February 7, 1905.
12 “contained a weather beaten grandstand”: Spink, 46.
13 “a cricket field”: SLGD, March 20, 1881.
13 devoted to wing shooting: AB, July 11, 1890.
13 “no use for us”: Spink, 47.
14 “When he pulled out”: Palmer 2, 70.
14 “It was agreed as we all sat”: Spink, 46–47.
15 “Had they remained”: BE, January 6, 1889.
15 “seemed cold and bleak”: Spink, 298.
15 “There was of course no discipline”: Ibid., 48.
16 “Base Ball is old in the world”: SLGD, June 6, 1881.
16 “He took no interest in the game”: NYW, September 13, 1896.
16 “not . . . an overpowering success”: SLGD, July 31, 1881.
16 “ruffling the feathers of the club”: Ibid.
16 Three months later: SLGD, October 9, 1881.
16 called on his political connections: As Jeffrey Kittel suggests. See This Game of Games blog, June 4, 2009.
Chapter 2: The Beer and Whiskey Circuit
20 “I’d rather be a lamppost”: Spalding 1, 208.
20 set off for Chicago: Wyant, 100.
20 “clear-headed, farsighted, and successful”: Spalding 3, 5.
21 “going to expel you”: Spalding 1, 312.
21 “living from hand to mouth”: Ward, 25–26.
21 “I heard him entreat”: Spalding 1, 229.
23 until June 1885: The rule was revised at a special meeting of the American Association owners at the Girard House in Philadelphia on June 7, 1885.
23 “Lipman Pike has”: CCR, William Hulbert letter to Freeman Brown, September 8, 1881.
24 “Address to Players”: Spalding 2, 85.
24 “Beer and Sunday amusements”: CE, July 29, 1880.
24 “We respectfully suggest”: CE, October 31, 1880.
26 “Truthful Jim” Mutrie, was on hand: CE, November 6, 1881.
27 “mushroom beer stands”: Orem, 17.
28 “The sole purpose of the League”: CCR, William A. Hulbert letter to H. D. McKnight, November 8, 1881.
29 “I have been ailing:” CCR, William A. Hulbert letter to H. D. McKnight, November 18, 1881.
29 “He admired the game very much”: BC, April 15, 1882.
30 “men should be so devoid”: Quoted in PI, January 22, 1882.
30 “attitude toward the so-called American Association”: CE, December 25, 1881.
30 “It grieves me to say”: CE, August 23, 1882.
31 “brains seems to have run to his paunch”: PI, December 11, 1881.
31 “tried to smother us”: PI, January 8, 1882.
31 “present at Mr. Hulbert’s bedside”: Spalding 3, 7.
32 “some 500 hoodlums”: SLGD, May 9, 1882.
32 “In the League cities”: Ibid.
32 “The Alleghenys in the early part”: CE, October 15, 1882.
33 Louisville hosted balloon rides: Orem, 21.
33 “Can you imagine the difference”: NSJ, February 19, 1899.
34 “low trickery” professionals employed: SL, August 20, 1884.
34 “raging, tearing, booming”: BG, April 9, 1889.
34 five of the Association’s six teams: CL, August 8, 1882.
34 “You cannot afford to sneer”: CE, September 23, 1882.
35 “wor
ked up to a fever-heat”: CE, October 24, 1882.
35 “was a splendid one”: CE, October 26, 1882.
35 “I think that in 1884 Chicago”: Ibid.
35 “will be war to the knife”: CE, October 1, 1882.
36 “at home singing lullabys”: CE, October 7, 1882.
36 “young America is with plum-pudding”: Ibid.
36 hillbilly from “across the river”: Ibid.
37 “will be expelled”: Orem, 50.
Chapter 3: The Minstrel Star
39 “inexhaustible coal and iron fields”: Glazier, 398.
39 61 public drinking fountains: Statistics from Encyclopedia, 696.
39 of 145,000 buildings: Coolidge, 274.
39 “unbounded supply of fresh water”: Ibid., 229.
39 “smallest and cheapest house”: Ibid., 236.
40 Born on August 27, 1838: Details of Lew Simmons’s career from Rice, 126.
41 contributed to the cause: Cazden, 368.
42 “slight appreciation of his efforts”: NYC, January 6, 1883.
42 “pretty work!”: Ibid.
43 “Sharsig’s capital consisted of”: Spink, 71.
43 “went around among the newspaper offices”: SN, December 10, 1887.
43 “destined to be as popular”: PI, June 26, 1881.
43 “kept no books”: Spink, 280.
43 revived baseball’s “old-time popularity”: NYC, April 7, 1883.
44 “there is not a greater ladies’ man”: NPG, September 15, 1883.
44 “Ladies and gentlemen will be protected”: NYC, April 7, 1883.
45 “we decided to get solid players”: PI, April 1, 1883.
45 “All of the Athletics’ season tickets”: PI, January 21, 1883.
45 “large enough for all”: NYC, March 31, 1883.
45 “landscape gardeners”: NYC, April 14, 1883.
45 “Although not yet completed”: Ibid.
46 “[leading] off with a three-bagger”: Ibid.
47 “We seem to be drifting”: AGM, Mills to Louis Kramer, Esq., December 22, 1882.
47 “It requires no keen sight”: NYC, December 2, 1882.
47 “Kilkenny fight”: NYC, December 30, 1882.
47 “If they can play together”: CE, December 10, 1882.
47 “although his club has suffered as badly”: PI, December 17, 1882.
47 “slept on the matter”: NYC, December 23, 1882.
48 “narrow-minded views”: NYC, February 17, 1883.
48 “If Hulbert made”: National, 41.
48 “started the game on a new career”: PI, March 18, 1883.
49 “Philadelphia public’s confidence”: NYC, April 21, 1883.
49 “money talked to the tune”: Ibid.
49 “all-important for the Athletics”: Ibid.
49 “On squeezing through”: Ibid.
50 “otherwise it will become”: Ibid.
50 “The defeat won’t do”: Ibid.
50 “unworthy of an amateur club”: PHI, April 17, 1883.
50 “Simmons has become quite gray”: NPG, May 12, 1883.
Chapter 4: The Moses of St. Louis
53 “almost wintry at the ball park”: MR, April 2, 1883.
54 “in military precision”: SLGD, April 2, 1883.
54 “old and slovenly uniforms”: Ibid.
54 “When St. Louis plays Cincinnati”: MR, April 2, 1883.
55 “played to the grandstand”: SN, November 17, 1900.
56 “his first promotion”: Sullivan, 234–235.
57 “baseball tide had come in”: Ibid., 237.
57 “plain Ted Sullivan”: Spink, 286.
57 “mind of his own”: Sullivan, 237.
57 “He perfumed my atmosphere”: Ibid., 238.
58 “enter the gilded cavern”: Ibid.
58 tried to lure Deasley back: CE, October 26, 1882.
58 “Loftus on the field”: DDT, September 21, 1879.
59 “now an ice wagon”: CE, September 22, 1882.
59 “I had to cut and slash”: T. P. (“Ted”) Sullivan, “Breaking Into Fast Company,” BM, April 1910, 55.
60 “Very much of the remarkable”: NYC, February 17, 1883.
60 “a magnificent walnut”: NYC, March 3, 1883.
60 “Ever since his engagement”: Quoted in CE, July 31, 1882.
60 switch hitter: MR, July 22, 1883.
61 “changed his delivery”: BA, July 19, 1882.
61 “polish his buttons”: SLPD, August 17, 1904.
61 “a great hand”: Ibid.
61 had a widowed mother: SL, November 19, 1884.
61 “that chap’s heft”: MR, April 2, 1883.
61 “Tony does not ‘kill’”: PI, January 21, 1883.
61 “many a one a roasting”: SLGD, March 18, 1883.
62 “lively waiter”: SLGD, April 13, 1883.
62 “immense blackboard”: SLGD, May 6, 1883.
62 “provided with a compartment”: SLGD, March 26, 1883.
62 4,000-pound roller: SLGD, March 18, 1883.
62 wrapping their hooves: SLGD, April 5, 1884.
62 On St. Patrick’s Day: SLGD, March 18, 1883.
63 “brawny fists”: PI, July 2, 1882.
63 “mark him”: Ibid.
63 “If he should some day break a limb”: SL, July 29, 1885.
63 “lithe and spry”: SLGD, March 18, 1883.
63 “throws like lightning”: Ibid.
63 “Dot poy Latham”: CT, October 8, 1883.
63 “Latham is the mouth”: SN, May 26, 1888.
63 “Why do they laff”: Wallop, 52.
63 failed to provide any money: SL, February 3, 1886.
63 “gratification of unnatural desires”: SLGD, November 29, 1887.
63 “little thought what havoc”: SN, July 12, 1886.
64 “had a good word”: SLGD, March 21, 1883.
64 “It is a generous offer”: NPG, May 12, 1883.
65 “remarked that he hoped”: MR, March 21, 1883.
65 “an immediate favorite”: MR, April 2, 1883.
65 “commenced to whoop up”: SLGD, April 2, 1883.
65 “seldom heard”: SLGD, April 8, 1883.
65 “letting the eager sightseers”: SLGD, April 9, 1883.
66 “their new red jackets”: SLGD, April 8, 1883.
66 “decidedly unprofessional”: SLGD, April 15, 1883.
66 “fair-minded spectators”: Ibid.
66 “It is bold, dashing”: MR, April 29, 1883.
66 the “Little Nicols”: MR, September 16, 1883.
66 “credit to one of Cole’s Arabs”: MR, April 29, 1883.
66 “It is not the first or the last”: SLGD, April 29, 1883.
67 “St. Louis calls for something”: MR, April 30, 1883.
67 “commenced to ply me”: Sullivan, 254.
67 “Chris whispered in my ear”: Sullivan, 115.
Chapter 5: The Shrimp
70 “O. Hell”: CCG, June 13, 1883.
71 “St. Louis had it pretty bad”: MR, June 6, 1883.
71 “momentous storm clouds hung over”: PD, May 31, 1883.
71 “most tumultuous applause”: Ibid.
72 “so few breathing spells”: PP, May 31, 1883.
72 “none too many holidays”: NYH, May 31, 1883.
72 children stared at Jumbo: PHIP, May 31, 1883.
72 “little shrimp”: NPG, May 19, 1883.
73 had to rebuild his career: Nemec 1, 119–120.
74 “most remarkable memory”: SABR Baseball Biography Project, Bobby Mathews, http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/e7ad641f.
74 had won nearly 200 major-league games: Official Major League Baseball statistics cited here come from www.Baseball-Reference.com.
74 “Bobby is tough”: SL, May 6, 1883.
75 glanced off his bat: PHI, May 30, 1883.
75 pulled a handkerchief out: PHIP, May 31, 1883.
76 “a standing position”: Spink, 186.
77 “but few eq
uals for pluck and coolness”: NYC, August 12, 1882.
78 “bullets shot out of a rifle”: PI, January 14, 1883.
78 “stops to question the cost”: PI, June 24, 1883.
78 “sharp, hard hitter”: BG, May 22, 1883.
78 “putty ball”: MacDonald, 149.
79 “such a tantalizing smirk”: SN, April 23, 1892.
79 “dead outlaw and desperado”: Orem, 7.
79 “he, of the ungodly grin”: CE, October 4, 1882.
79 “grin and kick and spout”: CCG, April 16, 1882.
79 “Bradley is not a pitcher”: CE, October 4, 1882.
79 “Never count on a ball player”: PD, May 21, 1883.
80 “Bradley’s ascension”: SLGD, June 3, 1883.
80 “every other club in the association”: CE, June 5, 1883.
80 “by dint of pushing, threats”: PHIP, May 31, 1883.
81 “Athletics will be second”: PI, June 3, 1883.
Chapter 6: Who’s in Charge?
83 “beautiful beyond compare:” CCG, May 2, 1883. Caylor had left the Enquirer to join this paper.
83 “sweet, silvery voice”: Thompson described in CCG, July 28, 1883.
84 “making good use of everything”: CE, May 6, 1883.
84 “buzz of excitement”: CCG, May 2, 1883.
84 “price of so many”: CE, May 2, 1883.
84 “best quality white bunting”: MR, April 29, 1883.
85 “drooping down the staff”: CCG, May 2, 1883.
85 “caught a passing breeze”: Ibid.
85 “would pitch if desired”: Ibid.
85 “comment on his personal habits”: Axelson, 74.
85 “quiet, earnest, silent team work”: CCG, May 2, 1883.
85 “transposed into a general picnic”: CE, May 2, 1883.
85 “openly violated the pitching”: CCG, May 2, 1883.
85 “refused to enforce”: Ibid.
86 “he was too d—n fresh”: Sullivan, 267.
86 “My dear Mr. White”: Ibid., 267–268.
86 “friends in the grand stand”: CE, May 2, 1883.
86 “great pitch of excitement”: Ibid.
86 “universal admiration”: MR, May 2, 1883.
86 “the excitement ran intense”: CE, May 2, 1883.
87 “never find a policeman”: Nemec 1, 522.
87 “wild with noble rage”: CCG, May 2, 1883.
87 “accepted as a big lift”: MR, May 2, 1883.
87 “attack of inflammatory rheumatism”: CE, May 3, 1883.
87 “tired of hearing the sharp whizz”: Ibid.
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