Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . ision. Won. Lost. Brooklyn 86 43 .667 Chicago 83 53 .610 Philadelphia 78 53 .595 Cincinnati 78 55 .586 Second Division. Won. Lost. Boston 76 57 .571 New York 63 68 .481 Cleveland 44 88 .333 Pittsburg 23 114 .168 It was in 1890 that the Pittsburg club made the unprec-edented record in the championship campaign of scoring114 defeats^iln 1891 the American Association committed^licidethrough the medium of its secession from the Na-tional Agreement compact, and for the
Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ..: a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. . ision. Won. Lost. Brooklyn 86 43 .667 Chicago 83 53 .610 Philadelphia 78 53 .595 Cincinnati 78 55 .586 Second Division. Won. Lost. Boston 76 57 .571 New York 63 68 .481 Cleveland 44 88 .333 Pittsburg 23 114 .168 It was in 1890 that the Pittsburg club made the unprec-edented record in the championship campaign of scoring114 defeats^iln 1891 the American Association committed^licidethrough the medium of its secession from the Na-tional Agreement compact, and for the time being a badlydemoralized condition of things prevailed in the profes-sional base ball arena, as it threatened to give a deathblow to the whole professional business by destroyingpublic faith in its honesty. At this critical juncture, how-ever, the National League stepped into this dangerous gapfor its rescue from bankruptcy, and at a cost of $180,000bought up the four leading clubs of the American Asso-ciation and thereby extended the Leagues circuit and atthe same time ended the ten vears history of the rival. o c J. C, z c .u C ^ ^ d ^3 ^ ^ o -^ :s^, .x 1 M . VJS «= f^ u — u 1. Wi c > X c £(5Ji — 1) — C^lS V^ II «• E ^* S II II , o := ti c^ ;?.-? rt • £ 0 .-a - j= ?. M cc w 1 ^ h o 1 5 si V i: -oi ^ <r i rt *;0 dJ ^^X u; H-ip; M c / ^ c C (-^ ^ (L bO *5 w Jj SPALDINGS OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. 45 association, its demise being the result of its breaking theNational Agreement. No change occurred in the circuitin 1891, the reconstruction business not being completeduntil the winter of 1892, though the movement began after the close of the campaign in 1891. The record of 189I stood as follows: 1S91. First Division. Won. Lost. Second Division. Won. Lost. Boston 87 51 .630 Cleveland 65 74 .468 Chicago 82 53 .607 Brooklyn 61 69 .445 New York 71 61 .538 Cincinnati 56 81 .409 Philadelphia 68 69 .496 Pittsburg 55 80 .407 It will be seen that the
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