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Title: Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ... : a complete hand book of the national game of base ball ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Baseball
Publisher: Chicago New York : A.G. Spalding & Bros.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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rsons, nor will theyhereafter entertain any appeal from them or in theirbehalf. The establishment of this fundamental principle of theprofessional base ball business is the cornerstone of theNational League building, and the very life of the businessdepends upon its being sustained by future governmentsin professional base ball. From 1877 thereafter to the end of the National Leaguesexistence, no player, found guilty of dishonesty in theprofessional clubs under the National Agreement, will beaflowed to play in any professional club. It was the strictenforcement of this rule which made professional base ballplaying the most honest field sport in vogue. 1881.First Division. Won. Lost. P.C. Chicago 56 28 .667 Providence 47 37 .559 Buffalo 45 38 .542 •Detroit 41 43 .488 No change was made in the Leagues circuit in 1882, andthe season ended with the appended championship record: Second Division. Troy Boston Won.. 39. 38. 36. 32 Lost, 45 45 48 50 P.C..464 .458 Cleveland Worcester .429.390
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SPALDINGS OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 39 First Division. Won. Chicago 55 Providence 52 Buffalo 45 Boston 45 Lost. P.O. 29 .655 32 .619 89 .536 39 .536 1882. Second Division. Won. Lost. P.C. Cleveland 42 40 .512 Detroit 42 41 .506 Troy 35 48 .422 Worcestei- 18 66 .214 It was in 1882 that the League adopted a rule requiringeach club to have its club colors shown in the stockings ofthe players uniform. The Boston nine, red stockings; theChicagos, white; the Clevelands, navy blue; the Troys,green; the Providences, light blue the Buffalos, gray; theDetroits, old gold, and the Worcesters. brown. In 1883 an important change in the League circuit wasmade, the two prominent League Alliance clubs of 1882—the New York and Philadelphia clubs—entering theLeague circuit this year, Troy and Worcester retiring; theNew York team being materially strengthened by acces-sions from Troy, notably so in the case of Ewing, Keefe,Welch, Connor and Gillespie. The championship recordfor 1883 stood as follows:
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