With slugger Sam Thompson already sidelined with a sore arm‚ Detroit suffers another crippling injury when Hardie Richardson‚ Fred Dunlap’s replacement‚ breaks his ankle and is lost for the season. Detroit beats Washington today‚ 3-2.
On June 25, 1888 At Sportsman’s Park, Kansas City third baseman Jumbo Davis makes five errors in the team’s 10-3 loss to St. Louis. The 26 year-old Cowboys infielder will commit 100 errors in 628 chances, finishing the season with a .841 fielding percentage for the American Association club. His bat kept in him the…
On June 10, 1888 The Athletics play their first official Sunday home game at Gloucester, NJ‚ or so they think. The American Association secretary will later rule the game illegally rescheduled and throw it out of official records.
The first publication of Ernest L. Thayer’s poem Casey at the Bat appears in the San Francisco Examiner. The work is originally published under the pen name ‘Phin’ because the poet feels embarrassed by what he considers to be bad verse and decides to keep his identity a secret until others come forward to claim the work to be their own.
June 1 1888 game at the South End Grounds between the Boston Nationals and the New York Giants. The artist used reproductions from original images to depict the players on the field, in foul ground, and some of the spectators, presumably prominent people. The players on the field are identified as follows: William Nash, second…
With a twelve-run lead, Louisville Colonels right-handed pitcher Icebox Chamberlain holds the Kansas City Cowboys scoreless pitching left-handed for the last two innings.
The champion Wolverines rebound by beating the Hoosiers‚ 1-0‚ on Charlie Getzien’s 4-hitter and Sam Thompson’s HR.
1888 – The St. Louis Browns of the American Association open the training season with an exhibition game versus the St. Louis Whites, a new Western Association team. Among the 10 cities in the W.A., four also host major league clubs
1888 – 3B/C Deacon White signs with the Detroit Wolverines after a prolonged battle with manager Bill Watkins, under whom White had said he’d never play.
1888 – The National League meets in New York and abolishes all discounts from the 50-cent minimum admission price. Despite the demands of the Brotherhood and the fact that the rule is practically a dead letter, the NL refuses to drop its $2,000 salary limit rule. The schedule committee recommends that the season go to 140 games from the current 126.
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