The 1875 season
Epilogue: 1877
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The 1875 season |
Epilogue: 1877 |
The National League
Thirteen teams competed in the National Association in 1875, the most in its five years to date to toss the hat into the competition for the National Championship, with the second most being the 1871 season (eleven clubs). However, of those, six did not complete the season, including the Red Stockings (19 games), the Keokuk Westerns (13 games), the Phiadelphia Centennials (14 games), the Washington Nationals (28 games), the Brooklyn Atlantics (44 games), and New Haven (47 games). The Red Stockings had the best winning percentage of the group, at 4-5 (.211). Of those six clubs, only the Atlantics had competed in prior seasons. As the season progressed, and these newer clubs dropped out, some of the oder clubs began to discuss moving forward in 1876 without these teams.
It is said that a Western clique has been formed by the St. Louis Brown Stockings, Chicago, Louisville and Cincinnati clubs, and will also embrace Boston and Hartford. The object of the ring is to break the power of the Athletic Club in the National Association and Judiciary Committee next year. A prominent director of the Browns says they will also keep the Atlantic, New Haven, Washington and St. Louis Red Stockings Clubs out of the professional arena. The former object, it is to be hoped, will be attained, but the idea of debarring clubs that have been unsuccessful and unfortunate from the association is ridiculous, and in no danger of succeeding. It is not probable that two or three clubs can run the whole National Association, and should the Western clubs try to keep the above-mentioned clubs out of the arena, it will result greatly to their disadvantage. This is intended as a hit to the St. Louis Reds, but that club will probably lead the Browns a close race for the pennant next year, as a stock company, with large capital, is to be organzied, and Manager McNeary intends keeping his best men together, and with the addition of three or four first-class players, expects to assume an important position in the championship contet. As his nine are nearly all heavy hitters, the probabilities for his success are very good."By February of 1876, the National League of Professional Base Ball Players had organized with clubs in Boston, Philadelphia (the Athletics), Hartford, New York (the Mutuals), Chicago, St. Louis (the Brown Stockings), Louisville and Cincinnati. One provision in the rules of the organization prohibited two clubs from the same city entering for the championship. This rule prevented several clubs from the National Association of 1875 from joining the League, including the St. Louis Reds, the Philadelphias and the Atlantics of Brooklyn. A second provision prohibited League clubs from playing teams outside the League as a visiting club, which prevented visiting NL clubs from playing the Reds while in St. Louis. The two rules left the Reds (and many other clubs) on the outside of the top tier of professional baseball. The Reds nonetheless pushed forward in 1876 as a professional organization. Their lineup included Redmond (ss), Morgan (p), and Dillon (now at 2b), the last holdovers from the original 1873 club. Art Croft (1b), Tom Oran (cf), Dan Collins (3b), John Magner (lf) and Tom Loftus (rf) returned from 1875. Rounding out the nine was Tom Dolan (c), who appeared in one game with the team in 1875 (as a fill-in in Louisville).
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, October 1, 1875, pg. 8.
The Reds' season started in April with games against "picked nines" and amateur clubs in St. Louis, including a surprise loss to St. Louis University on April 12, 1876. "One of the queer things which continually happens in base ball happened in the city yesterday, when the nine of St. Louis University defeated the professional Reds by a score of 14 to 12."(1) The Reds were missing Billy Redmond that day, who was newly married the day prior; McNeary (most likely Tom, but possibly one of his younger brothers, Frank or John) played center field as the ninth player in place of Billy.
After a series of warmup games, the Reds met the Brown Stockings on April 18, and again on April 22, losing both games. They then split two games in St. Louis against the Covington Stars before setting out on a short trip to Memphis and Louisville. It was the first of four road trips for the club in 1876. They went 6-1 on the trip, with their only loss a game againt the Covington Stars in Covington, in which Dolan could not play (hurt foot), so Dillon caught (and made seven errors) and "Bohn, the Reds substitute, was placed on second, and he... failed to do anything, although he had four opportunities given him."(2) On their return, Tom (Sleeper) Sullivan was signed as the change catcher and tenth man (and presumably Bohn was released).
In 1876, St. Louis had three professional clubs. The Brown Stockings and the Reds had debuted as professionals in the National Association the previous summer. The third club was the St. Louis Stocks, a club organized in the summer of 1875, and whose president in 1876 was Zach Mulhall, a member of the original Red Stockings in 1873.(3) The Stocks built a park for the 1876 season near Easton (now Martin Luther King) and Vandeventer, a site the Brown Stockings had initially considered in 1875 for their park. At the tail end of 1875, the Stocks and Reds split four games in October, and the rematch in 1876 was highly anticipated in the city. The Stocks roster included imported players John Abadie, Joe Simmons, and John (Studs) Bancker, as well as St. Louis locals, brothers Jack and Bill Gleason and pitcher Jim (Pud) Galvin. After the Stocks lost the first game on May 21 by a score of 10-8, they lured Harry Luff and Jack Farrell away from Memphis. The Reds beat the Stocks in their second matchup, on June 4, by a score of 6-2.Before their third game on June 8, the Stocks club announced they were switching to a cooperative model, as the organization was running out of money. They followed this annoiuncement with a win by a score of 10-9. The Reds scored four in the final inning to fall just short on the comeback. Attendance was sparse due to inclement weather. The fourth game in the series between the two clubs was a decisive 8-0 victory for the Reds on June 11. Jack Gleason received a trial with the Reds a few days later, replacing Collins at third base and Morgan in the lineup, while the Stocks disbanded.(4) Gleason was subsequently signed permanently, replacing the veteran Tom Oran on the club.
On June 18, the Reds lost a game against the Philadelphias, formerly of the National Association, by a score of 6-0. They arranged to play the club again on July 4 in Phildelphia. A few days later, they left on their second road trip of the season, which took them east through Indianapolis, IN, and Columbus, OH, into Pennsylvania. Prior to the trip, they signed Galvin as their change pitcher to back up Morgan. "Manager Waite yesterday secured the services of Galvin, of last year's Browns, who signed articles of agreement to play with the Reds the remainder of the season."(5) A little over midway through their trip they arrived in Philadelphia with a record of 6-3 for their Independence Day matchup on July 4, 1876. The Reds won 11-0 behind Galvin, who pitched a no-hitter. Only two Philadelphias reached base, one on a walk, and one on an error by Dillon.(6)
The Reds finished the road trip where they started it, passing through Columbus (a 4-4 tie and an 8-0 loss) and Indianapolis (a 1-0 win). They returned with a record of 10-4-1 in fifteen games. Two of the losses (and the tie) came against the Columbus Buckeyes, also considered one of the best independent clubs in the nation. The Buckeyes included The Only" Nolan and Bill Barnie, among seven players in the lineup who had or would have major league experience.
The Reds returned home on July 15. After a win against the New Havens, they set off on a short trip to Memphis, where they won all five games they played againt Memphis' top clubs. They finished the trip with a exhibition game in Memphis during which two players of the Memphis Reds (Doc Kennedy and Jack Maher) played with St. Louis, while Galvin, Dolan and Redmond played with a squad of players from the Memphis clubs (including Oran, who joined the Memphis Reds after leaving the St. Louis Reds) . Galvin held his teammates to two runs in a 12-2 win. They returned home at the end of July with a record of 36-12-1 (across all known games against clubs at all levels).
As August started, Dan Collins jumped the club to join the Louisville Grays in the National League.
Dan Collins, center fielder of the St. Louis Red Stockings, left for Louisville last night [Friday], treating the managment in a shameful manner. On Thursday he was paid his salary to the 1st of the month, and yesterday he vanished, saying nevr a word. He had asked for his release, in order that he might join the Louisvilles, but was informed by Mr. McNeary that he could not be spared... It remains to be seen whether [the President of the Louisville club] and the League will disgrace themselves by hiring Collins, under the circumstances.Collins played seven games with Louisville over about two weeks before being released to Memphis. These were the final games of his major league career.
On August 7, the Reds left on a trip up to Jackson, MI, for a tournament. Bill Gleason joined the club to replace Collins. The tournament there didn't happen, but the Reds stayed in Michigan, playing games in Jackson and Detroit before going to Ionia, MI for a tournament involving four clubs: the Jackson Mutuals, the Cass Club of Detroit, the Detroit Aetnas, and the Reds.
On August 17, the first day of the tournament, Galvin had what might be the most dominating day ever by a pitcher in professional baseball. In the morning, he no-hit the Mutauls 3-0, walking one, with two other runners reaching base on erorrs. He corrected his mistakes in the afternoon's game against the Cass Club; he pitched the first perfect game involving professional clubs. "Twenty-seven batsmen paraded to that plate with military-like precision, saluted, then marched back to the bench," wrote the Hammond Times in remembering the game in 1927.(7) The Reds won 11-0. Over 18 innings that day, Galvin allowed just one hit and walked just one hitter, a truely remarkable performance.
St. Louis won the tournament by defeating the Aetnas on August 19 by a score of 4-2. (A loss to the Aetnas the day previous was in an exhibition game, as the grounds were deemed too wet for an official tournament game.) For their victory, the Reds were awarded $500, with "the ladies of Ionia showing them especial favors and presenting each of the players with a handsome bouquet" (8).
Following a couple of games in Detroit, the Reds crossed over to Canada to play a game in Hamilton, Ontario, winning by a score of 22-0. They then crossed back into the US and played games in New York and Pennsylvania over the next three weeks. They finished the trip splitting two games in Indianapolis on the way home. They returned to St. Louis on September 21, having played 29 games over about six weeks and compiling a 21-8 record.(9) Their record at the conclusion of the road trip was reported as 61-18-1. On September 24, the Reds played the St. Louis Black Stockings, a colored club. Galvin allowed only one hit as the Reds won 16-1.
Following the game against the Black Stockings, the Reds began a series of games against the St. Louis Browns, who were second in the National League with a 42-18 record. They ultimately played four more games against the Browns, for six total on the season, losing all six, in September and October of 1876. They won four other games against local St. Louis clubs, and lost one to the visiting Columbus Buckeyes in between games against the Browns.
Their final game of the season was on November 3, 1876, against a strong picked nine including members of the St. Louis Browns, former Reds, and their umpire for the season, L.W. Burtis playing right field. The game was a benefit for Burtis, and "Every professional in the city turned out in behalf of Mr. Burtis except Dehlman, McGeary and Peters."(10)
The St. Louis Globe-Deomcrat published a summary of the season on November 12, 1876. It credited the Reds with 91 games, wining 67, losing 23, with one tie. They outscored their opponents 1007 - 421. Redmond, Croft and Dillon were all credited with playing 91 games, while Morgan played 90, Magner appeared in 87, and Dolan played in 83 games. Redmond led the club with 199 hits and a .442 batting a, erage. The New York Mercury published a full list of these 91 games on December 16, 1876. Records of a few other games have been found not present on this list, bringing the total number of games up to 94 for the season, including games against Picked Nines and amateurs and exhibitions. Their record in those games is 68-25-1. The only League club they played was the Browns, against whom they were 0-6.
Games identified to date for 1876.
| Game No. | Date | Opponent | Outcome | Location | Notes | |
| 1 | April 4, 1876 | Picked nine | W 25-3 | Grand Avenue Park | Score provided in the New York Mercury | |
| 2 | April 6, 1876 | St. Louis University | W 15-5 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 3 | April 9, 1876 | Picked Nine | W 33-6 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 4 | April 12, 1876 | St. Louis University | L 12-14 | Mutual Grounds | ||
| 5 | April 15, 1876 | Cote Brilliante | W 27-0 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 6 | April 16, 1876 | Willows | W 10-3 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 7 | April 18, 1876 | St. Louis Browns | L 3-5 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 8 | April 22, 1876 | St. Louis Browns | L 0-4 | Grand Avenue Park | ||
| April 23, 1876 | St. Louis Athletics | Rained out | Red Stockings Park | Game called after four innings with Reds leading 12-2 | ||
| 9 | April 27, 1876 | Covington Stars | W 15-6 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 10 | April 30, 1876 | Covington Stars | L 2-10 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| Departed for Memphis on May 2 | ||||||
| 11 | May 4, 1876 | Memphis | W 16-14 | Olympic Park (Memphis TN) | ||
| 12 | May 5, 1876 | Eckfords | W 34-4 | Olympic Park (Memphis TN) | ||
| 13 | May 7, 1876 | Memphis | W 14-7 | Olympic Park (Memphis TN) | ||
| 14 | May 9, 1876 | Covington Stars | W 13-8 | Stars Park (Covington KY) | ||
| 15 | May 11, 1876 | Covington Stars | L 2-13 | Stars Park (Covington KY) | ||
| 16 | May 13, 1876 | Louisville Riversides | W 14-11 | Olympic Park (Louisville KY) | ||
| 17 | May 14, 1876 | Louisville Riversides | W 47-4 | Olympic Park (Louisville KY) | ||
| Returned from road trip on May 15 with 6-1 record | ||||||
| 18 | May 18, 1876 | St. Louis University | W 22-6 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 19 | May 20, 1876 | Haymakers | W 12-0 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 20 | May 21, 1876 | Stocks | W 10-8 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 21 | May 28, 1876 | Empires | W 38-1 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 22 | May 29, 1876 | St. Louis University | W 19-4 | |||
| 23 | May 30, 1876 | Picked Nine | W 8-0 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 24 | June 4, 1876 | Stocks | W 6-2 | Stocks Park | ||
| 25 | June 8, 1876 | Stocks | L 9-10 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 26 | June 11, 1876 | Stocks | W 8-0 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 27 | June 13, 1876 | St. Joseph Pastimes | W 26-6 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 28 | June 14, 1876 | Jacksonville IL | W 18-8 | Played in Jacksonville | ||
| 29 | June 15, 1876 | St. Louis Amateur | W 9-0 | Originally scheduled as a game against the St. Jospeh club, which left town after a 20-7 loss to the St. Louis Hartfords on June 14. | ||
| 30 | June 18, 1876 | Philadelphias | L 0-6 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| Departed on road trip East on June 21 | ||||||
| 31 | June 22, 1876 | Indianapolis Capital City | W 6-3 | Exposition Grounds, Indianapolis (IN) | ||
| June 23, 1876 | Columbus Buckeyes | Rained out | Columbus (OH) | |||
| 32 | June 24, 1876 | Columbus Buckeyes | L 2-3 | Columbus (OH) | ||
| 33 | June 26, 1876 | Alleghenys | L 4-5 | Union Park, Pittsburgh (PA) | ||
| 34 | June 27, 1876 | Pittsburgh Braddocks | W 7-5 | Union Park, Pittsburgh (PA) | ||
| 35 | June 29, 1876 | New Castle Neshannocks | W 10-4 | New Castle (PA) | ||
| 36 | June 30, 1876 | Juniata Club | W 7-4 | Hollidaysburg (PA) | ||
| 37 | June 30, 1876 | Altoona Mountain City | W 15-3 | M.C. Grounds, Altoona (PA) | ||
| 38 | July 1, 1876 | Juniata Club | W 5-3 | Hollidaysburg (PA) | ||
| 39 | July 3, 1876 | Reading Actives | L 0-5 | Reading (PA) | ||
| 40 | July 4, 1876 | Philadelphia | W 11-0 | Philadlephia (PA) | No hitter | |
| 41 | July 10, 1876 | New Castle Neshannocks | W 12-5 | New Castle (PA) | ||
| 42 | July 11, 1876 | Alleghenys | W 12-8 | Union Park, Pittsburgh (PA) | ||
| 43 | July 12, 1876 | Columbus | T 4-4 | Columbus (OH) | ||
| 44 | July 13, 1876 | Columbus | L 0-8 | Columbus (OH) | ||
| 45 | July 14, 1876 | Indianapolis Capital City | W 1-0 | Exposition Grounds, Indianapolis (IN) | ||
| Returned from road trip on July 15 with 10-4-1 record | ||||||
| 46 | July 16, 1876 | Picked Nine | W 8-5 | |||
| 47 | July 17, 1876 | St. Louis Amateur | W 8-0 | |||
| 48 | July 18, 1876 | New Havens | W 9-3 | |||
| Departed for Memphis on July 21 | ||||||
| 49 | July 23, 1876 | Memphis Reds | W 10-3 | Central Park, Memphis (TN) | ||
| 50 | July 24, 1876 | Memphis Reds | W 11-4 | Central Park, Memphis (TN) | ||
| 51 | July 25, 1876 | Memphis Reds | W 11-1 | Central Park, Memphis (TN) | ||
| 52 | July 26, 1876 | Memphis Riversides | W 11-5 | Central Park, Memphis (TN) | ||
| 53 | July 27, 1876 | Memphis Blues | W 1-0 | Olympic Park, Memphis (TN) | ||
| 54 | July 29, 1876 | Picked nine (Mix of players from Memphis and St. Louis) | L 2-12 | Central Park, Memphis (TN) | Galvin, Dolan and Redmond played for "Picked nine" | |
| Returned from Memphis on July 31 with a record of 5-1 | ||||||
| August 4, 1876: Dan Collins jumps club to join Louisville | ||||||
| August 6, 1876 | St. Louis Hartfords | Rained out | Red Stockings Park | |||
| Departed for Jackson, MI on August 7 | ||||||
| 55 | August 9, 1876 | Cass Club of Detroit | W 6-2 | Jackson (MI) | ||
| 56 | August 10, 1876 | Jackson Mutuals | W 5-3 | Jackson (MI) | ||
| 57 | August 11, 1876 | Cass Club of Detroit | W 16-7 | Woodward Avenue Grounds, Detroit (MI) | ||
| 58 | August 12, 1876 | Detroit Aetnas | L 3-4 | Peninsular Grounds, Detroit (MI) | ||
| 59 | August 14, 1876 | Cass Club of Detroit | W 9-3 | Woodward Avenue Grounds, Detroit (MI) | ||
| 60 | August 15, 1876 | Detroit Aetnas | L 4-5 | Woodward Avenue Grounds, Detroit (MI) | ||
| 61 | August 17, 1876 | Jackson Mutuals | W 3-0 | Ionia (MI) | No hitter | |
| 62 | August 17, 1876 | Cass Club of Detroit | W 11-0 | Ionia (MI) | Perfect game | |
| 63 | August 18, 1876 | Detroit Aetnas | L 3-6 | Ionia (MI) | Exhibition game due to excessively wet grounds | |
| 64 | August 19, 1876 | Detroit Aetnas | W 4-2 | Ionia (MI) | ||
| 65 | August 22, 1876 | Cass Club of Detroit | W 15-12 | Woodward Avenue Grounds, Detroit (MI) | ||
| 66 | August 24, 1876 | Detroit Aetnas | W 10-5 | Peninsular Grounds, Detroit (MI) | ||
| 67 | August 25, 1876 | Hamilton Standards | W 22-0 | Crystal Palace Grounds, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | ||
| 68 | August 28, 1876 | Buffalo | W 11-1 | Buffalo Club Grounds, Buffalo (NY) | ||
| 69 | August 29, 1876 | Erie Brown Stockings | W 15-8 | Erie (PA) | ||
| 70 | August 30, 1876 | Oil City | W 6-3 | Oil City (PA) | ||
| 71 | August 31, 1876 | Oil City | W 20-4 | Oil City (PA) | ||
| 72 | September 2, 1876 | Lockport, NY | W 55-2 | Lockport (NY) | ||
| 73 | September 4, 1876 | Auburn | W 9-6 | Auburn (NY) | ||
| 74 | September 5, 1876 | Syracuse Stars | L 0-1 | Syracuse (NY) | ||
| 75 | September 6, 1876 | Binghamton Cricket | L 7-13 | Binghamton (NY) | ||
| 76 | September 8, 1876 | Ilion | L 2-7 | Ilion (NY) | ||
| 77 | September 11, 1876 | Lockport, NY | W 16-15 | Lockport (NY) | ||
| 78 | September 12, 1876 | Cass Club of Detroit | W 9-6 | Buffalo (NY) | ||
| 79 | September 13, 1876 | Columbus Buckeyes | L 4-15 | Lockport (NY) | ||
| 80 | September 14, 1876 | Cass Club of Detroit | W 7-1 | Buffalo (NY) | ||
| 81 | September 16, 1876 | Alleghenies | W 10-3 | Allegheny (PA) | ||
| 82 | September 19, 1876 | Indianapolis | L 3-10 | Indianapolis (IN) | ||
| 83 | September 20, 1876 | Indianapolis | W 3-0 | Indianapolis (IN) | ||
| Returned from road trip on September 21 with a record of 21-8 | ||||||
| 84 | September 24, 1876 | St. Louis Black Stockings | W 16-1 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| Up to September 24, 1876, 82 games to date, with a record of 62-18-1 | ||||||
| 85 | September 26, 1876 | St. Louis Browns | L 1-5 | Grand Avenue Grounds | ||
| 86 | September 27, 1876 | St. Louis Browns | L 3-4 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 87 | October 1, 1876 | Hartfords | W 21-2 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 88 | October 8, 1876 | Athletics | W 5-1 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| October 14, 1876 | Columbus Buckeyes | Game not played | Red Stockings Park | Columbus club did not show up | ||
| 89 | October 15, 1876 | Columbus Buckeyes | L 0-4 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| October 19, 1876 | St. Louis Browns | Rained out | Red Stockings Park | |||
| 90 | October 20, 1876 | St. Louis Browns | L 10-14 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 91 | October 21, 1876 | St. Louis Browns | L 4-6 | Grand Avenue Grounds | ||
| 92 | October 22, 1876 | St. Louis Alerts | W 14-4 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 93 | October 29, 1876 | Grand Avenues | W 28-3 | Red Stockings Park | ||
| 94 | November 3, 1876 | Picked nine | W 10-3 | Red Stockings Park | Benefit game for Mr. L.W. Burtis, the Reds umpire | |
| Season recap from the New York Clipper on November 25, 1876 | ||||||
| Season recap from the New York Mercury on December 16, 1876 | ||||||
Eighteen different players appeared in the boxscores found to date for the Red Stockings from 1876. Morgan, Redmond, and Dillon were all that remained of the core from 1873, all playing in at least 90 games. Art Croft finished his second full season with the club, appearing in 91 games.
| Player | # games | Years with Reds | |
| Billy Redmond | 91 | 1873-1877 | Played in more than 180 games from 1873-1877. |
| Packy Dillon | 91 | 1873-1877 | Dillon returned to the Reds in 1876 to play second base. |
| Art Croft | 91 | 1874-1876 | After joining the club late in 1874, was with the club the entirety of 1875 and 1876. |
| Dan Morgan | 90 | 1873-1877 | Played in more than 180 games from 1873-1877. |
| John Magner | 87 | 1875-1876 | Joined the club in late 1875, and then played the full season in 1876. |
| Tom Dolan | 83 | 1875-1877 | After appearing in one game in 1875, signed for the full season for 1876. |
| Jack Gleason | 64 | 1876-1877 | Joined the club from the St. Louis Stocks after the Reds played a series against that club, right as the Stocks switched to a cooperative model. |
| Jim (Pud) Galvin | 63 | 1876-1877 | Signed as the change pitcher before the club went on an extended road trip east. Came from the St. Louis Stocks. |
| Dan Collins | 48 | 1875-1876 | Jumped the club in early August to join Louisville. |
| Tom Loftus | 35 | 1875-1876 | Joined the club in late 1875. Left the club after the first major trip east through Pennsylvania. Later played with the Memphis Reds. |
| Bill Gleason | 34 | 1876-1877 | Signed after Collins left the club right before the trip to the tournament in Ionia and the swing east through Pennsylvania and New York. |
| Tom Sullivan | 24 | 1876-1877 | Signed as a backup catcher in May. |
| Tom Oran | 16 | 1874-1876 | Played with the Memphis Reds in 1876 after leaving the Reds. |
| William Bohn | 2 | 1876 | Signed before a trip to Memphis and Louisville. Presumably released after the trip. Later joined the Cass Club of Detroit. |
| White | 1 | 1874; 1876-1877 | White is identified as an old Reds sub in 1877. |
| McNeary | 1 | 1876 | Played in one game when Redmond was absent after getting married. |
| Doc Kennedy | 1 | 1876 | Played with the Reds in a game against a mixed Reds/Memphis club along with Jack Maher. |
| Jack Maher | 1 | 1876 | Played with the Reds in a game against a mixed Reds/Memphis club along with Doc Kennedy. Maher was from St. Louis. |
(1) "Base Ball. The Reds Defeated by the St. Louis University Nine Yesterday," St. Louis Republican, April 13, 1876, pg. 8.
(2) "Our Reds," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 14, 1876, pg. 6. In addition to commenting on Bohn's poor play, the article mentioned that Dillon was unable to catch Mogan's swift pitching, so Morgan had to "let up," while Collins missed five chances to dispose of the Covington Stars hitters, contributing to the loss. For that road trip, the team signed William Bohn, a player from Cleveland, as a tenth man. "Local Gossip," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, April 26, 1876, pg. 4. Both William and brother Charlie had minor league careers lasting into the 1880s. Charlie pitched two games for Louisville of the American Assocoaition in 1882.
(3) "The Coming Sport," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 27, 1876, pg. 2.
(4) There are no box scores for Stocks games in the St. Louis papers after their final game with the Reds on June 11. Simmons joined the Columbus Buckeyes in June, while Luff turned up in Memphis again in late June.
(5) "Willow and Leather, The St. Louis Red Seeking for Scalps," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 22, 1876, pg. 5. The article noted the eleven players going on the trip - Morgan, Dolan, Croft, Dillon, Gleason, Redmond, Magner, Collins, Galvin, Sullivan, and Loftus - along with Thomas McNeary and John McNeary as the scorer.
(6) "A Glorious Victory for Our Reds," St. Louis Globe Democrat, July 5, 1876, pg. 8. Sadly, no box score has been found for this game to date.
(7) "Pitches First Perfect Game," Hammond Times, December 29, 1927, pg. 16. This recounting includes the only box score found for the game to date, which game was recognized at the time as the first professional game where a team failed to get a batter to first base by any means. While no-hitters had happened previously, the fact that players didn't use gloves at the time tended to make muffs of hard-hit balls common, so even a no-error game was rare.
(8) "Our Reds Win the First Prize at Ionia," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 20, 1876, pg. 6.
(9) The Globe-Democrat published a summary of the trip on September 2, 1876, pg. 5. Box scores found for Reds games to this point yield a record of 57-20-1, but that includes games such as the exhibition loss to Galvin in Memphis and 'preseason' games against "Picked nines" and St. Louis University. It is unclear what were games counted in this reported record, but it is obvious some games played by the Reds in 1876 haven't been identified yet in the newspapers of the times. The Globe-Democrat provided good summaries of their road trips that season, so it seems likely these games were against other St. Louis clubs.
(10) "The Burtis Benefit Game," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, November 4, 1876, pg. 8.
