1888 World's Series

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1888 World's Series
New York Giants 84 - 47 in the NL	6 - 4 Series Summary	St. Louis Browns 92 - 43 in the AA

Contents 1 The Teams 1.1 New York Giants 1.2 St. Louis Browns 2 The Games 2.1 Game 1 2.2 Game 2 2.3 Game 3 2.4 Game 4 2.5 Game 5 2.6 Game 6 2.7 Game 7 2.8 Game 8 2.9 Game 9 2.10 Game 10 3 Series Stats 3.1 New York Giants 3.1.1 Batting 3.1.2 Pitching 3.2 St. Louis Browns 3.2.1 Batting 3.2.2 Pitching 4 Series Summary

[edit] The Teams

[edit] New York Giants

The Giants had advanced to the series by winning the National League pennant. The team was managed by Jim Mutrie.

[edit] St. Louis Browns

The Browns had advanced to the series by winning the American Association pennant. The team was managed by Charlie Comiskey.

[edit] The Games

[edit] Game 1

October 16, 1888 at Polo Grounds I in New York, NY; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 New York Giants 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 x 2 2 4 Win: Tim Keefe (1-0) Loss: Silver King (0-1) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 2

October 17, 1888 at Polo Grounds I in New York, NY; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 4 New York Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 Win: Elton Chamberlain (1-0) Loss: Mickey Welch (0-1) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 3

October 18, 1888 at Polo Grounds I in New York, NY; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 5 New York Giants 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 x 4 5 2 Win: Tim Keefe (2-0) Loss: Silver King (0-2) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 4

October 19, 1888 at Washington Park I in Brooklyn, NY; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E New York Giants 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 8 2 St. Louis Browns 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 7 4 Win: Ed Crane (1-0) Loss: Elton Chamberlain (1-1) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 5

October 20, 1888 at Polo Grounds I in New York, NY; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 5 New York Giants 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 9 2 Win: Tim Keefe (3-0) Loss: Silver King (0-3) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 6

October 22, 1888 at Philadelphia Baseball Grounds in Philadelphia, PA; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E New York Giants 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 5 12 13 5 St. Louis Browns 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 3 7 Win: Mickey Welch (1-1) Loss: Elton Chamberlain (1-2) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 7

October 24, 1888 at Sportsman's Park II in St. Louis, MO; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E New York Giants 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 11 3 St. Louis Browns 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 7 8 3 Win: Silver King (1-3) Loss: Ed Crane (1-1) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 8

October 25, 1888 at Sportsman's Park II in St. Louis, MO; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E New York Giants 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 6 11 12 2 St. Louis Browns 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 5 6 Win: Tim Keefe (4-0) Loss: Elton Chamberlain (1-3) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 9

October 26, 1888 at Sportsman's Park II in St. Louis, MO; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E New York Giants 0 3 5 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 11 14 5 St. Louis Browns 1 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 14 15 4 Win: Jim Devlin (1-0) Loss: Bill George (0-1) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Game 10

October 27, 1888 at Sportsman's Park II in St. Louis, MO; day game (Attendance: n/a)	No Boxscore Available
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E New York Giants 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 7 13 8 St. Louis Browns 0 1 0 5 0 5 4 2 1 18 17 3 Win: Elton Chamberlain (2-3) Loss: Cannonball Titcomb (0-1) Home Runs: to be added

[edit] Series Stats

[edit] New York Giants

[edit] Batting

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG
Willard Brown	2	8	8	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.375	0.375	0.500
Roger Connor	7	27	23	7	7	1	2	0	3	4	4	0	0.304	0.407	0.522
Ed Crane	2	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0.143	0.143	0.143
Buck Ewing	7	27	26	5	9	0	2	1	6	5	1	3	0.346	0.370	0.615
Bill George	2	9	9	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	0	2	0.333	0.333	0.778
George Gore	3	13	11	5	5	1	0	0	0	2	2	2	0.455	0.538	0.545
Gil Hatfield	2	9	8	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0.250	0.333	0.250
Tim Keefe	4	13	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0.091	0.231	0.091
Pat Murphy	3	10	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.100	0.100	0.100
Jim O'Rourke	10	40	36	4	8	0	0	0	1	3	4	2	0.222	0.300	0.222
Danny Richardson	9	39	36	6	6	2	0	0	6	3	3	5	0.167	0.231	0.222
Mike Slattery	10	39	39	6	8	2	0	0	5	6	0	5	0.205	0.205	0.256
Mike Tiernan	10	46	38	8	13	0	0	1	6	5	8	2	0.342	0.457	0.421
Cannonball Titcomb	1	4	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.500	0.500	0.750
John Ward	8	30	29	4	11	1	0	0	6	6	1	0	0.379	0.400	0.414
Mickey Welch	2	7	7	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.286	0.286	0.286
Art Whitney	10	38	37	7	12	0	1	0	12	2	1	4	0.324	0.342	0.378
Team Totals	10	366	339	64	94	10	5	3	55	38	27	30	0.277	0.331	0

[edit] Pitching

Player	G	W - L	SV	GS	CG	SHO	IP	H	HR	BB	SO	R	ER	ERA
Ed Crane	2	1 - 1	0	2	2	0	17.0	15	0	6	12	10	4	2.12
Bill George	1	0 - 1	0	1	1	0	10.0	15	1	3	4	14	8	7.20
Gil Hatfield	1	0 - 0	0	0	0	0	5.0	12	1	3	2	12	7	12.60
Tim Keefe	4	4 - 0	0	4	4	0	35.0	18	0	9	30	12	2	0.51
Cannonball Titcomb	1	0 - 1	0	1	0	0	4.0	5	1	2	2	6	3	6.75
Mickey Welch	2	1 - 1	0	2	2	0	17.0	10	0	9	2	8	5	2.65
Team Totals	10	6 - 4	0	10	9	0	88.0	75	3	32	52	62	29	2.97

[edit] St. Louis Browns

[edit] Batting

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG
Jack Boyle	4	18	16	4	7	0	1	0	4	3	2	2	0.438	0.500	0.563
Elton Chamberlain	5	17	13	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	3	0.000	0.235	0.000
Charlie Comiskey	10	42	41	6	11	1	1	0	3	4	1	1	0.268	0.286	0.341
Jim Devlin	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000
Ed Herr	3	11	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0.091	0.091	0.091
Silver King	5	16	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0.067	0.125	0.067
Arlie Latham	10	45	40	10	10	0	0	0	3	11	5	6	0.250	0.333	0.250
Harry Lyons	5	18	17	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	0.118	0.167	0.118
Tommy McCarthy	10	41	41	10	10	1	0	1	9	6	0	0	0.244	0.244	0.341
Jocko Milligan	8	28	25	5	10	2	1	0	4	0	3	3	0.400	0.464	0.560
Tip O'Neill	10	43	37	8	9	1	0	2	11	0	6	3	0.243	0.349	0.432
Yank Robinson	10	42	36	7	9	2	1	0	7	2	6	12	0.250	0.357	0.361
Bill White	10	38	35	4	5	1	0	0	4	1	3	6	0.143	0.211	0.171
Team Totals	10	362	330	60	75	8	4	3	46	29	32	52	0.227	0.296	0

[edit] Pitching

Player	G	W - L	SV	GS	CG	SHO	IP	H	HR	BB	SO	R	ER	ERA
Elton Chamberlain	5	2 - 3	0	5	5	1	44.0	52	3	16	13	36	26	5.32
Jim Devlin	1	1 - 0	0	0	0	0	7.0	5	0	2	5	3	2	2.57
Silver King	5	1 - 3	0	5	4	0	35.0	37	0	9	12	23	9	2.31
Team Totals	10	4 - 6	0	10	9	1	86.0	94	3	27	30	62	37	3.87

[edit] Series Summary

Game	Score	Date	Ballpark, City	Attendance
1	Browns 1 - 2 Giants	October 16	Polo Grounds I, New York, NY	n/a
2	Browns 3 - 0 Giants	October 17	Polo Grounds I, New York, NY	n/a
3	Browns 2 - 4 Giants	October 18	Polo Grounds I, New York, NY	n/a
4	Giants 6 - 3 Browns	October 19	Washington Park I, Brooklyn, NY	n/a
5	Browns 4 - 6 Giants (8 innings)	October 20	Polo Grounds I, New York, NY	n/a
6	Giants 12 - 5 Browns (8 innings)	October 22	Philadelphia Baseball Grounds, Philadelphia, PA	n/a
7	Giants 5 - 7 Browns (8 innings)	October 24	Sportsman's Park II, St. Louis, MO	n/a
8	Giants 11 - 3 Browns	October 25	Sportsman's Park II, St. Louis, MO	n/a
9	Giants 11 - 14 Browns	October 26	Sportsman's Park II, St. Louis, MO	n/a
10	Giants 7 - 18 Browns	October 27	Sportsman's Park II, St. Louis, MO	n/a

Umpires: Unknown

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