Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Teams > Franchise Encyclopedia > 1897 Trades and Transactions

1897 St. Louis Browns

Trades and Transactions

29-102, Finished 12th in National League (Schedule and Results)
View League Standings and Leaders

Manager: Tommy Dowd (6-22), Hugh Nicol (8-32), Bill Hallman (13-36) and Chris Von Der Ahe (2-12)
Scored 592 runs, Allowed 1088 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 32-99

Ballparks: Robison Field · Attendance: 136,400 (9th of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 97, Pitching - 102 · one-year: Batting - 93, Pitching - 98

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this team (what's this?)

Promote your website or business by sponsoring this page for $10 on Baseball-Reference.com. Your message will replace this ad.

1896 / 1898 Trades and Transactions

Transactions listed are from November 1 of previous year to April 1 of the following year.

October 20, 1896

Sold Ted Breitenstein to the Cincinnati Reds for $10000 (but perhaps as low as $4000).

March 3, 1897

Purchased Lou Bierbauer from the Pittsburgh Pirates. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.)

June 1, 1897 (Standings)

Traded Tommy Dowd to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Bill Hallman, Dick Harley and $300.

Traded Ed McFarland to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Kid Carsey and Mike Grady.

October, 1897 (Standings)

Purchased Jack Crooks from Columbus (Western).

Purchased Pete Daniels from Columbus (Western).

November 10, 1897

Traded Monte Cross, Red Donahue and Klondike Douglass to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Jack Clements, Lave Cross, Tommy Dowd, Jack Taylor and $1,000.

November 11, 1897

Traded Mike Grady and Fred Hartman to the New York Giants. Received Jim Donnelly, Ducky Holmes and $3,500.

November 12, 1897

Traded Bill Hallman to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. Received George Shoch and $1,000.

December 7, 1897

Traded Morgan Murphy to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received Joe Sugden.

December 21, 1897

Traded Bill Hart to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Received Jim Hughey and $1,800.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

1896 / 1898 Trades and Transactions

Compare Other Links@google.com Report an error

Automatic Player Linking / Statistical Sharing Tool / Basic Player Linking / Data Coverage

See Front Page for time of last update

Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

Play Index Loading Photos from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.

A Sports Reference Site: About Baseball Reference | Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data

Part of the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.