Barnes Goto Baseball Reference for Barnes c Majors: No
	Sioux City Position: c First game: July 26, 1888 Last 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.

Manager William Bryan tried a local catcher, Barnes, behind the plate in the game against Milwaukee on July 26. "Barnes, the Sioux City Corn Palace catcher, did not understand the points of the game and his throwing to second was a pitiable failure" (Sioux City Journal, July 27, 1888). The club had Fred Pranter and Luke Schildknecht, and was looking for a third catcher. Barnes was not the one; the club signed Frank Nicholas the same day Barnes was getting his chance. Milwaukee stole four bases, and Barnes had one passed ball, so his fielding wasn't as bad as the game report in the Journal implied. The Sioux City Exchange wrote "As for Mr. Barnes... his record after the first inning was creditable, and he ties his opponent on put-outs" (as quoted in the Mitchell (SD) Capital on August 3, 1888).

The Corn Palace club was an amateur club in Sioux City named for the giant Corn Palaces built to celebrate the autumn harvest from 1887 through 1891. The club was organized in March, but Barnes doesn't seem to appear with the club before late June, when catcher Barnes appears in a box score in the Sioux City Journal on June 26 in a game against the Aurelias.

A week after his appearance with the Corn Huskers, the Mitchell Capital quoted the Exchange (above) and added "If this is our friend Barnes, who played with the Mitchell boys last season, Sioux City has secured a prize." This provides one possible identity for Barnes. The player the Mitchell newspaper referred to hit two home runs for Mitchell in a game against Plankinton on August 1, 1887 (Mitchell Daily Republican, August 2, 1887), and was noted to have "returned from vacation" on September 27, 1887 in the Daily Republican. While the identity of this Barnes is also unclear, Ned Barnes caught for Rapid City, SD in 1891. Ned (full name Addison G. Barnes, Jr.) came from Nebraska, where he organized a club of University students in 1886 (Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, NE, May 8, 1886). After living in South Dakota for several years, he moved to Salt Lake City, where he died in 1897 at the age of 31. (According to the Kearney (Neb.) Daily Hub, Ned's brother also signed to play for Rapid City in 1891 (January 26, 1891)).

In 1889, a catcher named Barnes signed with Decatur in late May, and played in at least one game against Terre Haute (Decatur Daily Republican, June 3, 1889). No further information is available about this player.

In 1890, a player named Barnes caught and played first base for both Monmouth and Joliet in the Illinois-Iowa league. Baseball-Reference identifies this playter as R.D. Barnes. (BR also only lists him as having played for Joliet, but it is clear from the newspapers of the time that he played for Monmouth for a stretch when John Halpin was hurt.) The Sterling Evening Gazette identifies Barnes as "formerly of the Evanston college team... a senior at Evanston and said to be worth in his own name between $200,000 and $300,000" (May 15, 1890). This player was likely William David Barnes, who grew up in Blue Grass, Iowa, and went on to become a botonist and a judge in Deschutes County, Oregon. W.D. Barnes graduated from Northwestern in 1891. During the summer of 1888, specifically on Sunday, June 30, 1888, he was playing baseball for a club from Blue Grass in a game against the Trinity Whites of Davenport (Davenport Daily Times, July 5, 1888). This makes it highly unlikely he was the Barnes who played for the Corn Palace club and Sioux City.

Finally, in 1886, Sam Barnes was catching for a club in Muscatine, Iowa (Muscatine Journal, July 23, 1886). Samuel Barnes died in Muscatine in 1909. The headline in the Muscatine News-Tribune read "Prominent Colored Man Laid to Rest at Greenwood Cemetery" (May 18, 1909). It is unlikely that he was the catcher in Sioux City in 1888.

Date	Pos	AB	R	BH	2B	3B	HR	SB	PO	A	E	BB	HPB	K
7-26-1888	c	3	0	0				0	4	0	0
1 Games		3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0