Season Comments:
- Cap Anson’s last season in the National League
- Baltimore and Boston battled down to the last games to determine the pennant winner
- Last season of 132 game schedule
- St. Louis Brown went 29-102
Total Pct Completed: 91.3%
Hardest to Strike Out (BK+):
Team:
Cincinnati – 216 k’s
Individual:
- Willie Keeler, Balt - 5 k’s in 564 at-bats (595 BK+)
- Tommy Corcoran, Cin – 6 k’s in 445 ab’s (423)
- Hughie Jennings, Balt - 10 k’s in 439 ab’s (298)
- Mike Griffin, Brook – 13 k’s in 534 ab’s (260)
- Bill Lange, Chi – 12 k’s in 479 ab’s (242)
Keeler's 5 k's:
- July 19 (at Clev, Zeke Wilson, 5th)
- August 15 (vs. Brook, Brickyard Kennedy, 1st)
- August 24, game 1 (vs. Chi, Clark Griffith, 5th)
- August 28 (vs. Cin, Red Ehret)
- Sept 22 (at NY, Cy Seymour, 1st)
Corcoran's 6 k's:
- June 11 (at NY, Amos Rusie, 4th)
- July 27 (at Chi, Jimmy Callahan)
- August 31, game 1 (at NY, Amos Rusie,5th)
- August 31, game 2 (at NY, Jouett Meekin, 4th)
- September 2 (at NY, Jouett Meekin, 4th)
- September 18, game 2 (at Clev, Jack Powell, 3rd)
Most Strikeouts:
Team:
Louisville – 453 k’s
Individual:
- Tom McCreery, Lou/NY – 72 (Lou-45, NY-27)
- Tom Brown, Wash – 63
- Barry McCormick, Chi – 51
- Billy Clingman, Lou – 51
- Ollie Pickering, Lou/Clev – 41 (Lou-22, Clev-19)
Most Strikeouts by a Pitcher:
Season:
Doc McJames, Balt – 156
Cy Seymour, NY – 156
Game:
May 4 - Fred Klobedanz, Bos, 10 (vs. Phil – Lajoie(3), Hallman(2), E Delahanty(2), Grady(2), Fifield))
August 21 – Walter Thornton, Chi, 10 (at Wash – Gettman(2), Tucker(2), Fox(2), T Brown, McGuire, Wrigley, Mercer)
August 28 – Cy Seymour, NY, 10 (vs. Chi – Everitt(3), Decker(2), Dahlen, Ryan, Callahan, Thornton, T Donahue)
4 or more Strikeouts by Batter:
May 25 - Jerry Nops, Balt vs. Pitt (Frank Killen)
August 17 – Duff Cooley, Phil vs. NY (Cy Seymour)
Resources:
Brooklyn and New York home & away - New York Evening Telegram (play-by-play)
Boston home - Boston Globe
Cincinnati home - Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune with the assistance of Jim Farmer
Baltimore home -Baltimore Sun with the assistance of Willis Felber (author of “A Game of Brawl”)
Cleveland home - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Philadelphia home – Philadelphia Inquirer
Washington home – Washington Post
Pittsburgh home – Pittsburgh Press & Post
Chicago home & away – Chicago Tribune
Help Wanted Section:
Louisville and St. Louis are my 2 “sore spots” – I have gleaned some scattered k’s from the Louisville Courier- Journal (LCJ). Have someone lined up to check the Louisville Times. I have needs for any papers in St. Louis
Other Individual Player Comments:
- Cap Anson struck out 27 times in his final season to give him a career total of 330 strikeouts.
- Louis Sockalexis, in his spotlight season with Cleveland, struck out 38 times in 66 games, with a BK+ of 42.
- The top 3 lowest full-time BK+ seasons occurred in 1897 – Tommy McCreery (45), Tom Brown (46), and Barry McCormick (48).
- Brooklyn’s John Grim struck out only 2 times in 80 games.
- McCreery had led the NL in K’s in 1896 as well with 58.
- Anson caught 11 games at the beginning of the season (Apr 23, 26, 28, 30, May 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20). He batted 9th 4 times and 8th the other 7 times. He batted 4th at 1b the rest of the season.
- Honus Wagner, in his rookie season, struck out 14 times in 62 games, mostly in center field.
- Napoleon Lajoie, in his 1st full season, struck out 25 times in 127 games, mostly at 1st base.
- Other Hall of Famers:
o Bobby Wallace, Clev – 32
o Billy Hamilton, Bos - 30
o Fred Clarke, Lou - 26
o Jesse Burkett, Clev - 25
o Ed Delahanty, Phi – 23
o George Davis, NY – 23
o Cy Young, Clev – 22
o Joe Kelley, Balt – 19
o Kid Nichols, Bos – 18
o Hugh Duffy, Bos – 16
o John McGraw, Balt – 16
o Jake Beckley, NY/Cin – 14 (2/12)
o Deacon McGuire, Wash – 12
o Clark Griffith, Chi – 8
o Wilbert Robinson, Balt – 8
o Amos Rusie, NY – 8
o Roger Connor, StL – 4 (last season)
o Roger Bresnahan, Wash – 2 (1st season, all 6 games as a pitcher)
o Rube Waddell, Lou – 2 (1st season, 2 games)
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