1888 World Series | |
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NL: New York Giants (6–4) | |
AA: St. Louis Browns (4–6) | |
«1887 1889» |
The 1888 World Series was an end-of-the-year professional baseball season championship playoff series between the National League champion New York Giants and the old American Association champion St. Louis Browns.
The Giants won, 6 games to 4. [1] Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe went 4–0. [2]
This was the Browns' last appearance in a championship tournament and pre-modern-era World Series, the last of their four consecutive AA pennants. The club would later join the NL in 1892 and be renamed as the St. Louis Cardinals by 1900. It would be 1926 before they would win their next league pennant.
October 16, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 17, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 18, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 19, 1888, at Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York; day game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 20, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 22, 1888, at Philadelphia Baseball Grounds in Philadelphia; day game (last World Series game to be played at a neutral site until 2020 World Series) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 24, 1888, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri; day game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 25, 1888, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri; day game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 26, 1888, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri; day game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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October 27, 1888, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri; day game | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Player | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG |
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Willard Brown | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.375 | 0.375 | 0.500 |
Roger Connor | 7 | 27 | 23 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0.304 | 0.407 | 0.522 |
Ed Crane | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.143 | 0.143 | 0.143 |
Buck Ewing | 7 | 27 | 26 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0.346 | 0.370 | 0.615 |
Bill George | 2 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.333 | 0.333 | 0.778 |
George Gore | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0.455 | 0.538 | 0.545 |
Gil Hatfield | 2 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.250 | 0.333 | 0.250 |
Tim Keefe | 4 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0.091 | 0.231 | 0.091 |
Pat Murphy | 3 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.100 | 0.100 | 0.100 |
Jim O'Rourke | 10 | 40 | 36 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0.222 | 0.300 | 0.222 |
Danny Richardson | 9 | 39 | 36 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0.167 | 0.231 | 0.222 |
Mike Slattery | 10 | 39 | 39 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0.205 | 0.205 | 0.256 |
Mike Tiernan | 10 | 46 | 38 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0.342 | 0.457 | 0.421 |
Ledell Titcomb | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.500 | 0.500 | 0.750 |
John Ward | 8 | 30 | 29 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0.379 | 0.400 | 0.414 |
Mickey Welch | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.286 | 0.286 | 0.286 |
Art Whitney | 10 | 38 | 37 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.324 | 0.342 | 0.378 |
Team Totals | 10 | 366 | 339 | 64 | 94 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 55 | 38 | 27 | 30 | 0.277 | 0.331 | 0 |
Player | G | W – L | SV | GS | CG | SHO | IP | H | HR | BB | SO | R | ER | ERA |
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Ed Crane | 2 | 1–1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 17.0 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2.12 |
Bill George | 1 | 0–1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10.0 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 7.20 |
Gil Hatfield | 1 | 0–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 12.60 |
Tim Keefe | 4 | 4–0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 35.0 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 0.51 |
Ledell Titcomb | 1 | 0–1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6.75 |
Mickey Welch | 2 | 1–1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 17.0 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 2.65 |
Team Totals | 10 | 6–4 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 88.0 | 75 | 3 | 32 | 52 | 62 | 29 | 2.97 |
Player | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG |
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Jack Boyle | 4 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0.438 | 0.500 | 0.563 |
Elton Chamberlain | 5 | 17 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0.000 | 0.235 | 0.000 |
Charlie Comiskey | 10 | 42 | 41 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0.268 | 0.286 | 0.341 |
Jim Devlin | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Ed Herr | 3 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0.091 | 0.091 | 0.091 |
Silver King | 5 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.067 | 0.125 | 0.067 |
Arlie Latham | 10 | 45 | 40 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0.250 | 0.333 | 0.250 |
Harry Lyons | 5 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.118 | 0.167 | 0.118 |
Tommy McCarthy | 10 | 41 | 41 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.244 | 0.244 | 0.341 |
Jocko Milligan | 8 | 28 | 25 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.400 | 0.464 | 0.560 |
Tip O'Neill | 10 | 43 | 37 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0.243 | 0.349 | 0.432 |
Yank Robinson | 10 | 42 | 36 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 0.250 | 0.357 | 0.361 |
Bill White | 10 | 38 | 35 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0.143 | 0.211 | 0.171 |
Team Totals | 10 | 362 | 330 | 60 | 75 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 46 | 29 | 32 | 52 | 0.227 | 0.296 | 0 |
Player | G | W – L | SV | GS | CG | SHO | IP | H | HR | BB | SO | R | ER | ERA |
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Elton Chamberlain | 5 | 2–3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 44.0 | 52 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 36 | 26 | 5.32 |
Jim Devlin | 1 | 1–0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2.57 |
Silver King | 5 | 1–3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 35.0 | 37 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 9 | 2.31 |
Team Totals | 10 | 4–6 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 86.0 | 94 | 3 | 27 | 30 | 62 | 37 | 3.87 |
Game | Score | Date | Ballpark, City | Attendance |
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1 | Browns 1 – 2 Giants | October 16 | Polo Grounds, New York City | 4,876 |
2 | Browns 3 – 0 Giants | October 17 | Polo Grounds, New York City | 5,575 |
3 | Browns 2 – 4 Giants | October 18 | Polo Grounds, New York City | 5,780 |
4 | Giants 6 – 3 Browns | October 19 | Washington Park, Brooklyn, New York | 3,062 |
5 | Browns 4 – 6 Giants (8 innings) | October 20 | Polo Grounds, New York City | 9,124 |
6 | Giants 12 – 5 Browns (8 innings) | October 22 | Philadelphia Baseball Grounds, Philadelphia | 3,281 |
7 | Giants 5 – 7 Browns (8 innings) | October 24 | Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Missouri | 4,624 |
8 | Giants 11 – 3 Browns | October 25 | Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Missouri | 4,865 |
9 | Giants 11 – 14 Browns | October 26 | Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Missouri | 711 |
10 | Giants 7 – 18 Browns | October 27 | Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Missouri | 412 |
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