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Adrian Constantine Anson,nicknamed "Cap" and "Pop",was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman. Including his time in the National Association (NA),he played a record 27 consecutive seasons. Anson was regarded as one of the greatest players of his era and one of the first superstars of the game. He spent most of his career with the Chicago Cubs franchise,serving as the club's manager,first baseman and,later in his tenure,minority owner. He led the team to six National League pennants in the 1880s. Anson was one of baseball's first great hitters,and probably the first to tally over 3,000 career hits. In addition to being a star player,he innovated managerial tactics such as signals between players and the rotation of pitchers.
The St. Louis Brown Stockings were a professional baseball club based in St. Louis,Missouri,from 1875 to 1877,which competed on the cusps of the existences of two all-professional leagues—the National Association (NA) and the National League (NL). The team is the forerunner of,but not directly connected with,the current St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team. After the conclusion of the 1877 season,a game-fixing scandal involving two players the Brown Stockings had acquired led the team to resign its membership in the NL. The club then declared bankruptcy and folded.
The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP),often known simply as the National Association (NA),was the first fully-professional sports league in baseball. The NA was founded in 1871 and continued through the 1875 season. It succeeded and incorporated several professional clubs from the previous National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) of 1857–1870,sometimes called "the amateur Association". In turn,several NA clubs created the succeeding National League of Professional Baseball Clubs,which joined with the American League of Professional Base Ball Clubs to form Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1903.
William Ambrose Hulbert was one of the founders of the National League,considered as baseball's first,true major league,and was also the president of the Chicago White Stockings franchise.
Calvin Alexander McVey was an American professional baseball player during the 1860s and 1870s. McVey's importance to the game stems from his play on two of the earliest professional baseball teams,the original Cincinnati Red Stockings and the National Association Boston Red Stockings. He also played on the inaugural National League pennant-winning team,the 1876 Chicago White Stockings.
The Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia was a prominent National Association,and later National League,professional baseball team that played in the second half of the 19th century.
The following are the baseball events of the year 1882 throughout the world.
Charles Timothy O'Leary was an American professional baseball shortstop who played eleven seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1904–1912),St. Louis Cardinals (1913),and St. Louis Browns (1934) of Major League Baseball (MLB).
The following are the baseball events of the year 1881 throughout the world.
David W. Force was a shortstop in Major League Baseball. From 1871 through 1886,he played in the National Association with the Washington Olympics (1871),Troy Haymakers (1872),Baltimore Canaries (1872[end]-1873),Chicago White Stockings (1874) and Philadelphia Athletics (1875),and in the National League for the Philadelphia Athletics (1876),New York Mutuals (1876),St. Louis Brown Stockings (1877),Buffalo Bisons (1879–1885) and Washington Nationals (1886). Force batted and threw right-handed.
The St. Louis Red Stockings were a professional baseball team in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players for the 1875 season.
Joseph Emley Borden,aka Joe Josephs,,nicknamed "Josephus the Phenomenal",was a starting pitcher in professional baseball for two seasons. Born in the Jacobstown section of North Hanover Township,New Jersey,he was playing for a Philadelphia amateur team when he was discovered by the Philadelphia White Stockings of the National Association (NA) in 1875. The White Stockings needed a replacement for a recently released pitcher,and were awaiting the arrival of a replacement. During his short,seven-game stint with the team,he posted a 2–4 win–loss record,both victories recorded as shutouts. On July 28 of that season,he threw what is thought to be the first no-hitter in professional baseball history.
Robert Edward Addy,nicknamed "the Magnet",was a Canadian right fielder and second baseman in Major League Baseball,whose professional career spanned from 1871 in the National Association to 1877 in the National League. He is credited as the first player to introduce the slide in an organized game,and later attempted to create a game of baseball that would have been played on ice. He is also credited as the first person born in Canada to appear in a major league game.
James Leon Wood was an American second baseman and manager in early professional Major League Baseball (MLB) who hailed from Brooklyn,New York. He was the player-manager for four teams in the early National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP –1871–1875 –later known simply as the National Association –the predecessor of the modern National League of Professional Baseball Clubs –later known simply as the National League,[founded 1876] of modern Major League Baseball,where he spent his entire base ball career in the 1860s into the 1870s.
George Zettlein was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played six seasons in Major League Baseball from 1871 to 1876 for the Chicago White Stockings,Troy Haymakers,Brooklyn Eckfords,Philadelphia White Stockings of the National Association (NA),and the Philadelphia Athletics (1860–1876) of the National League.
The 1875 Chicago White Stockings season was the fourth season of the Chicago White Stockings franchise,the third and final in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players and the second at 23rd Street Grounds. The White Stockings finished sixth in the National Association with a record of 30–37.
Charles C. Waitt,born in Hallowell,Maine,was a professional baseball player who played a total of four professional baseball seasons. Waitt played in an era when baseball had many differences from modern baseball. He was 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) in height,and 165 pounds (75 kg) in weight. He threw right-handed,but it is unknown whether he batted right or left-handed.
Charles Hodes was an American professional baseball player who played as a catcher,infielder,and outfielder in the National Association for three seasons from 1871 to 1874. A Brooklyn native,Hodes played one season each for the Chicago White Stockings,Troy Haymakers,and Brooklyn Atlantics. He had a career batting average of .231 in 63 total games before dying from tuberculosis in 1875.
Frederick Stanley Boardman was an American baseball player. Boardman was born in 1851 in St. Joseph,Missouri. According to baseball historian David Nemec,he was an "auxiliary player" in Chicago for many years. He appeared in one game in Major League Baseball as a right fielder for the Baltimore Canaries in the National Association during the 1874 baseball season. His lone appearance with the Canaries came about when the team visited Chicago and was in need of an outfielder. The Chicago White Stockings won the game by a 4–0 score. During the 1875 season,he worked as an umpire in the National Association. He died in 1941 in Indianapolis,at age 90.
The St. Louis Cardinals,a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis,Missouri,compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). As the game of baseball garnered interest in the United States in the 19th century,professional baseball in St. Louis became rooted chiefly in one disestablished Major League club –named the Brown Stockings,the same as the Cardinals' earliest name –which is loosely connected,but does not fall within the scope of,today's Cardinals. The Brown Stockings became St. Louis' first fully professional baseball club when they gained accession in the National Association (NA) in 1875. However,the NA folded after that season. That winter,with five other former NA teams,St. Louis established a new,eight-team league called the National League (NL) and began play the next season. Despite early success,Brown Stocking players were found to be connected to game fixing scandals,which forced bankruptcy and the club's expulsion from the NL. This scandal also abrogated their professional status but some members maintained play as a semi-professional team,primarily operated by outfielder Ned Cuthbert,until 1881.
