1890 Louisville Colonels season

American Association (19th century)|American Association team season

1890 Louisville Colonels

1890 American Association Champions
League| American Association
Ballpark| Eclipse Park
City| Louisville, Kentucky
Owner| Barney Dreyfuss
Manager| Jack Chapman

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The 1890 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with an 88–44 record and won the American Association championship. The previous season, the Colonels had lost 111 games, the most any team in the Major Leagues had lost up to that point (the record was broken during the 1890 season by the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, who lost 113 games). This "worst to first" transformation was accomplished partly because of new ownership led by Barney Dreyfuss. Competition was also diminished due to the advent of the Players' League and a couple of the best AA teams jumping to the National League.

After the season, Louisville played the NL champions, the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, in the 1890 World Series. The Bridegrooms were one of the teams that had jumped to the NL, and had been the champions of the AA in 1889. The World Series wound up in a 3–3–1 tie.

## Regular season[edit]

### Season standings[edit]

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American Association | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road

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Louisville Colonels | 88 | 44  | 0.667  | —  | 57–13  | 31–31
Columbus Solons | 79 | 55  | 0.590  | 10  | 47–22  | 32–33
St. Louis Browns | 78 | 58  | 0.574  | 12  | 45–25  | 33–33
Toledo Maumees | 68 | 64  | 0.515  | 20  | 40–27  | 28–37
Rochester Broncos | 63 | 63  | 0.500  | 22  | 40–22  | 23–41
Baltimore Orioles | 15 | 19  | 0.441  | 24  | 8–11  | 7–8
Syracuse Stars | 55 | 72  | 0.433  | 30½  | 30–30  | 25–42
Philadelphia Athletics | 54 | 78  | 0.409  | 34  | 36–36  | 18–42
Brooklyn Gladiators | 26 | 73  | 0.263  | 45½  | 15–22  | 11–51

### Record vs. opponents[edit]

1890 American Association record

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Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Team  | BAL  | BR  | COL  | LOU  | PHI  | ROC  | STL  | SYR  | TOL
Baltimore | — | 0–0 | 2–4–2 | 1–2–1 | 2–2 | 5–1 | 2–5 | 1–2 | 2–3–1
Brooklyn | 0–0 | — | 5–9 | 2–13 | 2–10 | 3–10–1 | 4–10 | 5–12 | 5–9
Columbus | 4–2–2 | 9–5 | — | 10–8–1 | 11–9 | 10–9–1 | 12–8–2 | 10–7 | 13–7
Louisville | 2–1–1 | 13–2 | 8–10–1 | — | 17–3 | 11–6–2 | 9–11 | 14–5 | 14–6
Philadelphia | 2–2 | 10–2 | 9–11 | 3–17 | — | 7–12 | 7–13 | 10–7 | 6–14
Rochester | 1–5 | 10–3–1 | 9–10–1 | 6–11–2 | 12–7 | — | 8–12–1 | 11–4–1 | 6–11–1
St. Louis | 5–2 | 10–4 | 8–12–2 | 11–9 | 13–7 | 12–8–1 | — | 10–9 | 9–7
Syracuse | 2–1 | 12–5 | 7–10 | 5–14 | 7–10 | 4–11–1 | 9–10 | — | 9–11
Toledo | 3–2–1 | 9–5 | 7–13 | 6–14 | 14–6 | 11–6–1 | 7–9 | 11–9 | —

### Opening Day lineup[edit]

### Roster[edit]

1890 Louisville Colonels

Roster
Pitchers

* Ed Daily
* Red Ehret
* Herb Goodall
* Mike Jones
* George Meakim
* Scott Stratton

Catchers

* Ned Bligh
* Jack Ryan
* Pete Weckbecker

|  | Infielders

* Henry Easterday
* Dan O'Connor
* Dan Phelan
* Harry Raymond
* Chief Roseman
* Tim Shinnick
* Pete Sweeney
* Harry Taylor
* Phil Tomney

|  | Outfielders

* Charlie Hamburg
* Farmer Weaver
* Jimmy Wolf

|  | Manager

* Jack Chapman

## Player stats[edit]

### Batting[edit]

#### Starters by position[edit]

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos  | Player  | G  | AB  | H  | Avg.  | HR  | RBI

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C | Jack Ryan | 93 | 337 | 73 | .217 | 0 | 35
1B | Harry Taylor | 134 | 553 | 169 | .306 | 0 | 53
2B | Tim Shinnick | 133 | 493 | 126 | .256 | 1 | 82
3B | Harry Raymond | 123 | 521 | 135 | .259 | 2 | 51
SS | Phil Tomney | 108 | 386 | 107 | .277 | 1 | 58
OF | Charlie Hamburg | 133 | 485 | 132 | .272 | 3 | 77
OF | Farmer Weaver | 130 | 557 | 161 | .289 | 3 | 67
OF | Jimmy Wolf | 134 | 543 | 197 | .363 | 4 | 98

#### Other batters[edit]

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player  | G  | AB  | H  | Avg.  | HR  | RBI

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Pete Weckbecker | 32 | 101 | 24 | .238 | 0 | 11
Ned Bligh | 24 | 73 | 15 | .205 | 1 | 9
Dan Phelan | 8 | 32 | 8 | .250 | 0 | 4
Dan O'Connor | 6 | 26 | 12 | .462 | 0 | 5
Henry Easterday | 7 | 24 | 2 | .083 | 0 | 1
Chief Roseman | 2 | 8 | 2 | .250 | 0 | 0
Pete Sweeney | 2 | 7 | 1 | .143 | 0 | 1

### Pitching[edit]

#### Starting pitchers[edit]

Note: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player  | G  | GS  | IP  | W  | L  | SV  | ERA  | SO

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Scott Stratton | 50 | 49 | 431.0 | 34 | 14 | 0 | 2.36 | 207
Red Ehret | 43 | 38 | 359.0 | 25 | 14 | 2 | 2.53 | 174
George Meakim | 28 | 21 | 192.0 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 2.91 | 123
Herb Goodall | 18 | 13 | 109.0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3.39 | 46
Ed Daily | 12 | 10 | 93.0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1.94 | 31
Mike Jones | 3 | 3 | 22.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.27 | 6

## 1890 World Series[edit]

Main article: 1890 World Series

Louisville, champions of the American Association, played the National League champions, the Brooklyn Bridegrooms in the 1890 World Series. The series pitted the two most recent American Association champions against each other.

The series winner was to be the first to win four games. Brooklyn started strong, winning the first two games in Louisville, with game 3 called after eight innings with the score tied. Louisville salvaged the fourth game, which was the last one played in Louisville. After Brooklyn won the first game at home to take a 3–1 lead, Louisville came back to win two straight. However, bad weather forced any remaining games to be canceled, with the plan that a deciding game would be played before the 1891 season began. However, due to inter-league disputes, that never occurred, and the series officially ended in a 3–3–1 tie.

## References[edit]

* 1890 Louisville Colonels team page at Baseball Reference

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American Association champions

* 1882: Cincinnati Red Stockings
* 1883: Philadelphia Athletics
* 1884: New York Metropolitans
* 1885: St. Louis Browns
* 1886: St. Louis Browns
* 1887: St. Louis Browns
* 1888: St. Louis Browns
* 1889: Brooklyn Bridegrooms
* 1890: Louisville Colonels
* 1891: Boston Reds

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1890 MLB season by team

National League|

* Boston
* Brooklyn
* Chicago
* Cincinnati
* Cleveland
* New York
* Philadelphia
* Pittsburgh

American Association|

* Baltimore
* Brooklyn
* Columbus
* Louisville
* Philadelphia
* Rochester
* St. Louis
* Syracuse
* Toledo

Players' League|

* Boston
* Brooklyn
* Buffalo
* Chicago
* Cleveland
* New York
* Philadelphia
* Pittsburgh

1890 World Series

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Louisville Colonels 1890 American Association champions

* Ed Daily
* Red Ehret
* Herb Goodall
* Charlie Hamburg
* George Meakim
* Harry Raymond
* Jack Ryan
* Tim Shinnick
* Scott Stratton
* Harry Taylor
* Phil Tomney
* Farmer Weaver
* Pete Weckbecker
* Jimmy Wolf

* Manager: Jack Chapman

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Louisville Colonels

Based in Louisville, Kentucky

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* Opening Day starting pitchers

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* 1890 AA Pennant
* 1890 World Series (tied)

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