. Old Boston boys and the games they played . of this year Boston wasvisited by the renowned Cincinnati RedStockings, who were then upon theirphenomenally successful tour. They trav-eled from ocean to ocean; played sixty- 202 OLD BOSTON BOYS three games with the strongest clubs inthe country and won sixty-three straightvictories. As this trip of the Red Stockings hasnever been equaled by any professionalbaseball nine, and probably never will be,ball players will be interested to see a fewof its statistics. They traveled 11,877 i^iles, played toabout 200,000 spectators, and made 2677runs agains
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . of this year Boston wasvisited by the renowned Cincinnati RedStockings, who were then upon theirphenomenally successful tour. They trav-eled from ocean to ocean; played sixty- 202 OLD BOSTON BOYS three games with the strongest clubs inthe country and won sixty-three straightvictories. As this trip of the Red Stockings hasnever been equaled by any professionalbaseball nine, and probably never will be,ball players will be interested to see a fewof its statistics. They traveled 11,877 i^iles, played toabout 200,000 spectators, and made 2677runs against their opponents 637. Theymade 3323 clean base hits and 169 homeruns. In running the bases, the players trav-eled 222 miles. This celebrated nine wascomposed of George Wright, short-stop;Harry Wright, centre field; Douglas Alli-son, catcher; Fred Waterman, third base ;Charlie Gould, first base ; Andy Leonard,left field ; Calvin McVey, right field; Char-lie Sweasy, second base; and Asa Brainard,pitcher. George Wright led the batting, with a. m GEORGE WRIGHT OLD BOSTON BOYS 203 total of 339 runs, 304 base hits, a grandtotal of 614 bases and 49 clean home assisted 179 times and made 82 flycatches out of 86 chances, thus makinggood his title to King. The Lowells ran up against this for-midable aggregation on June 10 on thelower end of the Parade Ground and scored9 runs to the Reds 29. Being laid upwith a sprained ankle, I had to forego thepleasure of playing against this championteam. On the nth they beat the Tri-Moun-tains, 40 to 12, and on the 12th made 30to the Harvards II. Very rarely, if ever, during the nexttwo years, did the Lowells play a matchwith their full nine in the field, the vacan-cies being filled by inferior men; and withno practice between matches, the resultwas inevitable. The club lost ground, en-thusiasm waned, many influential mem-bers withdrew to give all their attention to 204 OLD BOSTON BOYS the Boston Club (professional), then justforming, and in
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