EXTRA INNINGS GAME.
The ganes-victories, defeats and drawn-which required extra innings to be played, were as follows:
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| . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . ||. | .
—————-+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-++—+—-
St. Louis | —| 2| 2| 0| 1| 0| 1| 0|| 5| 2
Brooklyn | 2| —| 2| 3| 0| 0| 2| 1||10| 2
Athletic | 1| 1| —| 2| 1| 0| 2| 0|| 7| 2
Cincinnati | 3| 2| 2| —| 1| 2| 1| 0||11| 2
Baltimore | 2| 0| 0| 0| —| 0| 1| 0|| 3| 0
Cleveland | 0| 0| 1| 1| 0| —| 0| 0|| 2| 1
Louisville | 0| 0| 2| 0| 0| 0| —| 1|| 3| 1
Kansas City| 0| 0| 0| 1| 0| 0| 0| —|| 1| 0
+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-+—-++—+—-
Defeats | 8| 5| 9| 7| 3| 2| 6| 2||42| 10
The record of the series of games won and lost by each club with every other club in the American Association championship arena in 1888 is as follows:
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| | | | C | | L | | a ||
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| B | t | A | n | a | u | l | s ||
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| o | | h | i | t | s | v | s ||
| o | L | l | n | i | v | e | ||
| k | o | e | n | m | i | l | C ||
| l | u | t | a | o | l | a | i ||
| y | I | i | t | r | l | n | t ||
| n | s | c | i | e | e | d | y ||Series
Clubs | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . ||Totals.
—————-+——-+——-+——-+——-+——-+——-+——-+——-++————
|W.|L.|W.|L.|W.|L.|W.|L.|W.|L.|W.|L.|W.|L.|W.|L.||W.|L.
—————-+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—+—++—+——-
Brooklyn |—|—|10|10|12| 8|14| 6|12| 8|13| 8|16| 4|11| 9|| 6| 0
St. Louis |10|10|—|—|10| 7|10| 8|15| 5|16| 4|16| 4|16| 4|| 4| 0
Athletic | 8|12| 7|10|—|—|10|10|15| 5|15| 5|13| 7|11| 3|| 4| 1
Cincinnati | 6|14| 8|10|10|10|—|—|14| 6|17| 3|10| 7|15| 4|| 3| 1
Baltimore | 8|12| 5|15| 5|15| 6|14|—|—|11| 9|10| 9|11| 9|| 2| 4
Louisville | 8|13| 4|16| 5|15| 3|17| 9|11|—|—| 8| 9|11| 6|| 1| 5
Cleveland | 4|16| 4|16| 7|13| 7|10| 9|10| 9| 8|—|—| 9| 9|| 0| 3
Kansas City| 9|11| 4|16| 3|14| 4|15| 9|11| 6|11| 9| 9|—|—|| 0| 6
The St. Louis, Brooklyn, Athletic and Cincinnati Clubs, each had one series tied; while the Baltimore Club had four unfinished series; the St. Louis and Cincinnati Clubs two each, and the Athletic, Baltimore, Louisville and Kansas City Clubs one each, The Brooklyn Club playing their full quota of scheduled games.
THE YEARLY RECORD.
The appended table gives the number of games won by all the clubs which have competed for the American Association championship from 1882 to 1888 inclusive:
Clubs |1882|1883|1884|1885|1886|1887|1888|Yrs.||Total
| | | | | | | | ||Vict'r's
——————+——+——+——+——+——+——+——+——++————-
St. Louis | 37| 65| 67| 79| 92| 94| 92| 7|| 526
Cincinnati | 55| 62| 68| 63| 64| 80| 80| 7|| 472
Athletic | 41| 66| 61| 55| 60| 64| 81| 7|| 428
Baltimore | 19| 28| 63| 41| 48| 76| 57| 7|| 332
Louisville | 42| 52| 68| 53| 66| 76| 48| 7|| 405
Metropolitan| —| 54| 75| 44| 53| 43| —| 6|| 269
Pittsburg | 39| 30| 30| 56| 78| —| —| 5|| 233
Brooklyn | —| —| 40| 53| 76| 59| 88| 5|| 316
Columbus | —| 32| 69| —| —| —| —| 2|| 104
Cleveland | —| —| —| —| —| 38| 50| 2|| 88
Indianapolis| —| —| 29| —| —| —| —| 1|| 29
Washington | —| —| 12| —| —| —| —| 1|| 12
Virginia | —| —| 12| —| —| —| —| 1|| 12
Kansas City | —| —| —| —| —| —| 43| 1|| 43
Toledo | —| —| 46| —| —| —| —| 1|| 46
+——+——+——+——+——+——+——+—————
Total | 233| 389| 640| 444| 537| 530| 539|
A COMPARATIVE RECORD.
The following table gives the comparative figures of the League and the
Association in their Championship contests in 1888:
Clubs |Vic.|Def |Pct. ||Clubs |Vic.|Def.|Pct.
——————-+——+——+———++—————-+——+——+———
New York | 84 | 47 | .641 ||St. Louis | 92 | 43 | .681
Chicago | 77 | 58 | .570 ||Brooklyn | 88 | 52 | .629
Philadelphia | 69 | 61 | .531 ||Athletic | 82 | 52 | .612
Boston | 70 | 64 | .522 ||Cincinnati | 80 | 54 | .597
Detroit | 68 | 63 | .519 ||Baltimore | 57 | 81 | .413
Pittsburg | 66 | 68 | .493 ||Cleveland | 50 | 82 | .379
Indianapolis | 50 | 85 | .370 ||Louisville | 48 | 87 | .356
Washington | 48 | 86 | .358 ||Kansas City| 43 | 89 | .328
NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN RECORDS.
The New York League Club and the Brooklyn American Association Club closed the first six years of their existence in 1888. The New York Club joined the League in 1883, and won the championship in 1888. The principal statistics of the club's work on the diamond field during that period is shown in the appended table:
Years |Won. |Lost.|Drawn.|Played.|Batting |Fielding | | | | |Average.|Average ———+——-+——-+———+———-+————+———— 1883 | 46 | 50 | 2 | 98 | .256 | .825 1884 | 62 | 50 | 4 | 116 | .257 | .816 1885 | 85 | 27 | 0 | 112 | .269 | .866 1886 | 75 | 44 | 5 | 124 | .269 | .853 1887 | 68 | 55 | 6 | 129 | .331 | .886 1888 | 84 | 47 | 7 | 138 | .240 | .918 +——-+——-+———+———-+————+——— Totals| 420 | 273 | 24 | 717 | .270 | .860
During these six seasons the New Yorks played 398 games with the Chicagos, Detroits, Bostons and Philadelphias, winning 223 and losing 175. Of these four clubs the New Yorks found the Chicagos to be their strongest opponents, and the Bostons their weakest. One hundred games were played with each of the two clubs, the New Yorks winning sixty-one from Boston, and only forty-one from Chicago.
The Brooklyn Club began its career in 1883 by winning the championship of the Interstate Association of that year, and in 1884 the club entered the American Association.
The following is the record of the Brooklyn Club's field work in the first six years of its history:
Years. |Victories.|Defeats.|Games |Drawn.|Pr. Ct. of | | |Played.| |Champ. Victs. ————-+—————+————+———-+———+—————— 1883 | 65 | 33 | 101 | 3 | .643 1884 | 57 | 75 | 136 | 4 | .384 1885 | 83 | 67 | 142 | 2 | .473 1886 | 91 | 63 | 160 | 6 | .557 1887 | 78 | 80 | 156 | 4 | .448 1888 | 88 | 52 | 160 | 3 | .629 Totals +—————+————+———-+———+————- six years| 462 | 370 | 875 | 22
Each club won championship honors in but one season out of six, the Brooklyns beginning by winning a pennant, and the New Yorkers ending with championship honors.
THE PHILADELPHIA CITY CHAMPIONSHIP.
The Philadelphia League Club and the American Association Athletic Club played a spring and fall exhibition game series for the professional championship of Philadelphia, the result of which was a victory for the American teams, as will be seen by the appended record:
ATHLETIC VICTORIES.
ATHLETIC VS. PHILADELPHIA. ——————————————————- DATE. PITCHERS. Score. ——————————————————- April 9 Seward, Gleason 4-2 April 11 Seward, Sanders 15-4 April 12 Weyhing Casey 7-1 April 14 Seward, Gleason 3-1 April 16 Weyhing, Tyng 13-7 October 18 Seward, Sanders 8-5 ——————————————————-
PHILADELPHIA VICTORIES.
PHILADELPHIA VS. ATHLETIC.
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DATE. PITCHERS. Score.
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April 13 Gleason, Mattimore 8-2
April 17 Buffinton, Blair 7-1
October 19 Casey, Weyhing 8-0
October 20 Buffinton, Smith 12-0
THE EXHIBITION GAME CAMPAIGN.
The experience of the season of 1888 in the playing of exhibition games during the spring and fall between League and American Clubs, shows that while the spring series prove attractive, owing to the desire of the patrons of the game to see how the club teams of the two organizations compare with each other in relative strength, preparatory to the opening of the championship campaign in each arena; those played in the fall, after the two championships have been decided, have ceased to draw paying patronage. This decrease of interest in the fall exhibition games, too, has been largely due to the introduction of the World's Championship series, which now monopolize public interest after the regular championship season has ended. It has been proposed to substitute a series of regular championship matches, on the basis of the series of the world's championship contests for the old time fall exhibition games, the plan in question including not only games between the championship teams of the League and the Association, but also between all the eight clubs of each organization, so as to show which are the eight leading club teams of the League, and the American Association. Had this plan been carried out in 1888, we should not only have had the interesting series between the two champion teams of New York and St. Louis, but also those between Chicago and Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Athletic, Boston and Cincinnati, Detroit and Baltimore, Pittsburg and Cleveland, Indianapolis and Louisville, and Washington and Kansas City. It is to be hoped that a grand test series of games of this character will mark the closing professional campaign of 1889, for such a series would substitute very interesting championship matches for October in the place of the unmeaning and useless exhibition games of the past fall campaigns.