Crawford lf Majors: No
	Chicago Position: lf First game: September 15, 1888 Last 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.

Crawford played one game for Chicago, in St. Paul on September 15, 1888. He filled in in left field for the Maroons, who were short a player. They were on a road trip with just 11 players when Frank Dwyer was released to the Chicago National League club on September 10. That left them with a core of six players - Milt Scott (1b), Moxie Hengel (2b), William Hanrahan (ss), George Nulton (3b), and Frank Rheims and Tom Turner (of) - to go with pitchers Charlie Sprague and Matt Keogan and catchers Dan Dugdale and Charlie Hoover. Scott played his last game with the club on September 12. On September 13, Keogan was kicked in the head during the game at Davenport, resulting in Frank Corkhill making his lone appearance with the Maroons. The club traveled to St. Paul for their next game on September 15, where Crawford filled in in left field, replacing Hengel in the lineup. The St. Paul Globe made no mention of him except in the box score. The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Inter Ocean both described him as coming from the "Iowa League". The game on the 16th was rained out, and Hengel returned for the Maroons final game in St. Paul on September 17. The next series for the Maroons was in Milwaukee, where an amateur named Hall played in a double header (again in place of Hengel) and Chick Pedros was brought in to help the club.

Baseball Reference identifies Crawford as George Crawford, who played six games for St. Paul in 1884. That player was pitcher George W. Crawford, from Texas (St. Paul Globe, March 23, 1884 and April 6, 1884). After being released by St. Paul, he returned to Texas, where the Dallas Daily Herald reported "Dallas presented her new pitcher, George W. Crawford, of last year's Brown Stockings, and who has played thus for the present season with the professional clubs of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Elgin, Illinois" (July 20, 1884). It seems unlikely that this was the same Crawford who played four years later for the Maroons.

On September 2, 1888, St. Paul played an exhibition game against a group of local amatuers. Crawford is listed in the box score playing left field and catching for St. Paul. (Hearn and Nash, likely from the Lyndales, played second base and first base for the amateurs.) On October 9, 1888, a benefit game was played for John Murphy between the St. Paul team and a "Reserve Team". Crawford played short stop for the St. Paul club. Further, on June 14, 1888, the St. Paul Globe reported that a game was played in Morris, Minnesota between the Morris and Traverse county teams. The battery for Morris was Helt and Crawford. It is reasonable to assume that Crawford was a known local player, at the least.

There is one other intrguing set of clues as to the identity of Crawford. On September 7, 1888, the St. Paul Globe reported on a 100 yard foot race in Minneapolis "ran under the names Tom Malone, of Australia, and Crawford, of Duluth, which were of course fictitious." However, in October, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported a story from Duluth about a sprinter named Crawford from Manitoba (October 27, 1888). On November 20, 1888, the St. Paul Globe reported that "J. W. Crawford, formerly of Duluth, and now of this city [Hudson, Wisconsin]" participated in a foot race for $1500 a side. Crawford won. So could this mysterious sprinter be Crawford?

There was also a Crawford identified in a box score playing for Worthington, Minnesota in the Worthington Advance (July 7, 1887). And Crawford played for Greenville in the Michigan League in 1889.

Date	Pos	AB	R	BH	2B	3B	HR	SB	PO	A	E	BB	HPB	K
9-15-1888	lf	4	0	1				1	0	0	0
1 Games		4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0