All players from the Western Association of 1888

There are under a dozen players for whom only a last name is known. These players appeared in just one game (or in a couple of instances, in both games of a double header) for the clubs they played for, leaving little more than their name in the box score. Here is what is known about these players.
Goto Baseball Reference for Allen ss Majors:
No
Minneapolis
Position: ss
Only game: August 15, 1888
# of games: 1		 Manager Goodling released all players on August 15, 1888 as he was unable to pay them. The amatuer Lyndales club was brought in for the game that day against Kansas City. Allen played short stop in that game.

Possibly James Allen, who played one game earlier in the season with Sioux City, and who was a known amatuer in Minneapolis.


Goto Baseball Reference for Barnes c Majors:
No
Sioux City
Position: c
Only game: July 26, 1888
# of games: 1		 Tried at catcher for one game per the St. Paul Globe (July 27, 1888). Barnes was a local player with the amateur Sioux City Corn Palace in 1888.


Goto Baseball Reference for Bernard cf Majors:
No
Chicago
Position: cf
First game: October 7, 1888
Last game: October 7, 1888
# of games: 2		 Played in double header in Kansas City as fill-in. Bernard was "a local amateur" according to the Chicago Tribune (October 8, 1888). The Kansas City Star reported Bernard was a local who "was dead broke, and was playing for $5 to get something to eat with" (October 8, 1888).


lf Majors:
No
Chicago
Position: lf
Only game: September 15, 1888
# of games: 1		 Filled in for one game in St. Paul. Came from the Iowa League, according to the Chicago Tribune (September 16, 1888).

Crawford appears in the box score playing left field and catching for St. Paul in an exhibition game against a group of local amateurs (St. Paul Globe, September 3, 1888).

It does not seem likely that this was George Crawford, as identified at Baseball-Reference.



Image from Old Judge card set
p Majors:
No
Chicago
Position: p
Did not play in official game 		No one knows who Fischer was. There is no record of Chicago signing a player named Fischer prior to the 1888 season.


Goto Baseball Reference for Flynn cf Majors:
No
St. Louis
Position: cf
Only game: June 17, 1888
# of games: 1		 One day fill-in with St. Louis on June 17, 1888 in Chicago; likely from the Chicago Commercial League.

One possibility is William B. Flynn, brother of Ed Flynn and George (Dibby) Flynn.


Goto Baseball Reference for Hall rf Majors:
No
Chicago
Position: rf
First game: September 23, 1888
Last game: September 23, 1888
# of games: 2		 Milwaukee amateur who substituted for Hengel, who was sick, in a double header at Milwaukee.


Goto Baseball Reference for Leyden cf Majors:
No
Davenport
Position: cf
Only game: August 25, 1888
# of games: 1		 One of three Des Moines amateurs who filled out the club for Davenport's first game, as only six of the signed players were available.

Possibly Thomas Lydon, who represented a club called the Browns at the organizatinal meeting for the City League in Des Moines in May, 1888.


1b Majors:
No
Minneapolis
Position: 1b
Only game: August 15, 1888
# of games: 1		 Manager Goodling released all players on August 15, 1888 as he was unable to pay them. The amatuer Lyndales club was brought in for the game that day against Kansas City. Nash played first base in that game.

The "Nash brothers" played with Herchimer (sic) and Watson for the Dassel club against Hutchinson on August 1, 1887. (Star Tribune, August 2, 1887).

Not Peter Nash, as currently indicated on Baseball-Reference.


Goto Baseball Reference for Reynolds p Majors:
No
St. Louis
Position: p
Only game: June 1, 1888
# of games: 1		 Filled in as the starter on June 1, 1888. Described as a local amatuer from Des Moines.


Goto Baseball Reference for Schoonmaker cf Majors:
No
Minneapolis
Position: cf
Only game: August 15, 1888
# of games: 1		 Manager Goodling released all players on August 15, 1888 as he was unable to pay them. The amatuer Lyndales club was brought in for the game that day against Kansas City. Schoonmaker played center field in that game.

With the Lyndales players who went up to Kamloops, BC in 1889.

Name confirmed as Schoonmaker