Newark Eurekas

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The Eureka Baseball Club of Newark or the Newark Eurekas was a baseball team in Newark, New Jersey, United States.

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The Eureka team was part of the NABBP in the 1850s and 1860s. The Eureka Club first began playing other members of the NABBP in 1860. They played at a field at Ferry Street and Adams Street in the Ironbound.

Players*

NamePositionGP Hands lost A O Runs A O
Harry Northrup 1B 6152-3152-3
Edward R. Pennington 2B 10292-9303-0
C. Van Houton SS 7273-6142-0
Charles Thomas 3B 8263-2141-6
R. Davidson OF 9242-6252-7
T. Oliver OF 8253-1162-0
J. Collins OF 10272-7242-4
G. Rogers C 8273-3172-1
J. Linen P 10313-1222-2

Other players for the team in 1860 were H. Brientnall, A. Littlewood, E Benedict, P. Baldwin, E. Thomas, T. Price and R. Elsden. Brientnall played five games; Littlewood, three; Benedict, two; and the other four members played only in a single game during the season.

Season by season

The Eurekas had the eleventh best win percentage and the eight most wins. They batted in the fifth most runs of any team at 213.

Newark only played one game against the Enterprise baseball club from Brooklyn and beat them 27–5.

Newark played only two games this season against ranked NABBP ballclubs. They lost to the Mutuals by one run and beat the Gothams by five runs.

The Eurekas had the tenth best win percentage and the tenth most wins in the league, despite having the fifth lowest number of runs in the league. They won exactly half of the eight games that they played.

The Eurekas finished the season with the sixth best record and the sixth most wins with a record of nine and five. They also had the sixth best team runs batted in at 339 in their fourteen games.

The NABBP saw a lot of growth this season with nearly sixty teams, but Newark was still able to maintain an excellent standing, as they had the ninth most wins. The Eureka club was also in the top third for winning percentage. They had a nine and six record and batted in 446 runs in these fifteen games. This was the seventh most runs by a single team in the league in 1866. On August 28, seventeen-year-old Candy Cummings comes in for pitcher Asa Brainard of the Brooklyn Excelsiors, leading his team to a 24–2 win. Candy Cummings is said to be the first pitcher to throw a curveball and for his future performance in the National League was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

This was the first year the Eureka club really struggled during the season. They only won two of their ten games, giving them for the first time one of the worst winning percentages in the league, although there were nine team who didn't win a game in 1867. They had a reasonable number of runs batted in at 230, but was a small number for this team that had over two hundred more the prior season (only having played five more games).

The team only played four games this season and won half. They only drove in 77 runs for the four games.

The Eureka Club only participated in two games in 1869 and lost both, with margins of eight and nine.

Scores

DateOpponentScoreWin/Loss/TieRecord*
June 7, 1860 Hamilton (JC) 18-35Loss0-1
June 29, 1860 Harlem 15-21Loss0-2
August 3, 1860 Harlem 34-18Win1-2
August 10, 1860 Brooklyn Enterprise 21-25Loss1-3
August 22, 1860 Newark Adriatics 34-6Win2-3
August 27, 1860 Brooklyn Enterprise 21-13Win3-3
September 14, 1860 Harlem 10-23Loss3-4
September 19, 1860 Newark Adriatics 12-12Tie3-4-1
September 26, 1860 Newark 28-14Win4-4-1
October 26, 1860 Belleville Baltics 20-24Loss4-5-1
July 10, 1861 Brooklyn Enterprise 27-5Win5-5-1
August 21, 1862 New York Mutuals 13-14 (10)Loss5-6-1
August ?, 1862 New York Gothams 18-13Win6-6-1
June 20, 1863 Philadelphia Athletics 8-6Win7-6-1
August 11, 1863 New York Mutuals 7-13Loss7-7-1
August 31, 1863 Brooklyn Atlantics 15-16Loss7-8-1
July 4, 1864 New York Active 27-29Loss7-9-1
July 6, 1864 Brooklyn Atlantics 13-25Loss7-10-1
July 7, 1864 Princeton Nassua 24-12Win8-10-1
August 2, 1864 New York Mutuals 10-16Loss8-11-1
September 14, 1864 New York Active 11-10Win9-11-1
NA New York Empire NAWin10-11-1
NA New York Empire NAWin11-11-1
NA New York Mutuals NALoss11-12-1
June 12, 1865 Philadelphia Athletics 9-12Loss11-13-1
July 8, 1864 Morrisania Union 30-5Win12-13-1
July 24, 1865Philadelphia Keystones50-11Win13-13-1
July 31, 1865 New York Mutuals 12-27Loss13-14-1
August 8, 1865 Philadelphia Athletics 28-38Loss13-15-1
August 18, 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics 20-21Loss13-16-1
August 24, 1865 Newark Pioneers 12-5Win14-16-1
August 31, 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics 37-38Loss14-17-1
September 7, 1865 Morrisania Union 30-10Win15-17-1
September 14, 1865 New York Mutuals 20-19Win16-17-1
October 5, 1865 Newark Americus 85-12Win17-17-1
October 20, 1865 New York Active 6-3Win18-17-1
NA Newark Pioneers NAWin19-17-1
NA Newark NAWin20-17-1
May 31, 1866 Harvard 42-39Win21-17-1
June 12, 1866 Morrisania Union 26-28Loss21-18-1
June 22, 1866 Newark Americus 67-7Win22-18-1
June 28, 1866 New York Mutuals 13-24Loss22-19-1
July 10, 1866 Kearney 45-6Win23-19-1
August 14, 1866 Brooklyn Atlantics 36-10Win24-19-1
August 20, 1866 New York Empire 15-11Win25-19-1
August 27, 1866 Philadelphia Athletics 8-48Loss25-20-1
August 28, 1866 Brooklyn Excelsior 2-24Loss25-21-1
September 12, 1866 New York Active 24-9Win26-21-1
September 18, 1866 Morrisania Union 23-25Loss26-22-1
September 27, 1866 Brooklyn Atlantics 20-30Loss26-23-1
October 17, 1866 New York Active 44-12Win27-23-1
October 25, 1866 Brooklyn Atlantics 13-38Loss27-24-1
NA Kearney NAWin28-24-1
NA New York Empire NAWin29-24-1
May 16, 1867 Irvington 17-25Loss29-25-1
May 23, 1867 New Brunswick Stars 66-9Win30-25-1
June 12, 1867 Morrisania Union 12-26Loss30-26-1
August 6, 1867 Lansingburgh Union 21-42Loss30-27-1
August 14, 1867 Hartford Charter Oaks 35-9Win31-27-1
August 23, 1867 New York Mutuals 21-34Loss31-28-1
September 5, 1867 Brooklyn Atlantics 13-21Loss31-29-1
September 10, 1867 Morrisania Union 14-33Loss31-30-1
September 23, 1867 Brooklyn Excelsior 22-41Loss31-31-1
November 2, 1867 Irvington 9-22Loss31-32-1
May 28, 1868 Brooklyn Atlantics 8-45Loss31-33-1
June 24, 1868 Jersey City Champions 17-4Win32-33-1
July 9, 1868 Greenpoint Oriental 22-28Loss32-34-1
NANANAWin33-34-1
September 19, 1869 New York Empire 6-14Loss33-35-1
October 3, 1869 New York Empire 0-9Loss33-36-1

References

Wright, Marshall. D. "The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870." Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc.: 2000. ISBN   0-7864-0779-4