1897 Chicago Colts Statistics

Record: 59-73-6, Finished 9th in National League (Schedule and Results)

Manager: Cap Anson (59-73-6)

Ballpark: West Side Grounds

Attendance: 327,160 (4th of 12)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 103, Pitching - 103
One-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 101

Pythagorean W-L: 62-70, 832 Runs, 894 Runs Allowed

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Apr 22, CHC @ CIN
Apr 23, CHC @ CIN
Apr 24, CHC @ CIN
Apr 26, CHC @ STL
Apr 27, CHC @ STL
Apr 28, CHC @ STL
Apr 29, CHC @ LOU
Apr 30, CHC @ LOU

May 1, CHC @ LOU
May 4, CHC vs. STL
May 5, CHC vs. STL
May 6, CHC @ CLV
May 7, CHC @ CLV
May 8, CHC @ CLV
May 9, CHC vs. CIN
May 10, CHC vs. CIN
May 11, CHC vs. CIN
May 12, CHC vs. CIN
May 15, CHC vs. BRO
May 16, CHC vs. BRO
May 17, CHC vs. BSN
May 18, CHC vs. BSN
May 19, CHC vs. BSN
May 20, CHC vs. WHS
May 22, CHC vs. WHS
May 23, CHC vs. WHS
May 24, CHC vs. NYG
May 25, CHC vs. NYG
May 26, CHC vs. NYG
May 27, CHC vs. PHI
May 28, CHC vs. PHI
May 29, CHC vs. PHI
May 30, CHC vs. BLN
May 31, CHC vs. BLN
May 31, CHC vs. BLN

Jun 2, CHC @ WHS
Jun 4, CHC @ WHS
Jun 5, CHC @ NYG
Jun 7, CHC @ NYG
Jun 10, CHC @ PHI
Jun 10, CHC @ PHI
Jun 11, CHC @ PHI
Jun 12, CHC @ BRO
Jun 14, CHC @ BRO
Jun 15, CHC @ BRO
Jun 16, CHC @ BSN
Jun 17, CHC @ BSN
Jun 19, CHC @ BSN
Jun 21, CHC @ PIT
Jun 22, CHC @ PIT
Jun 23, CHC @ PIT
Jun 24, CHC vs. CLV
Jun 26, CHC vs. CLV
Jun 27, CHC vs. CLV
Jun 28, CHC vs. LOU
Jun 29, CHC vs. LOU
Jun 30, CHC vs. LOU

Jul 1, CHC vs. PIT
Jul 2, CHC vs. PIT
Jul 3, CHC vs. PIT
Jul 4, CHC vs. WHS
Jul 5, CHC vs. WHS
Jul 5, CHC vs. WHS
Jul 8, CHC vs. BSN
Jul 9, CHC vs. BSN
Jul 10, CHC vs. BSN
Jul 11, CHC vs. BRO
Jul 12, CHC vs. BRO
Jul 13, CHC vs. BRO
Jul 14, CHC vs. BRO
Jul 15, CHC vs. BLN
Jul 16, CHC vs. BLN
Jul 17, CHC vs. BLN
Jul 18, CHC vs. BLN
Jul 19, CHC vs. PHI
Jul 20, CHC vs. PHI
Jul 21, CHC vs. PHI
Jul 22, CHC vs. NYG
Jul 23, CHC vs. NYG
Jul 24, CHC vs. NYG
Jul 25, CHC vs. LOU
Jul 27, CHC vs. CIN
Jul 28, CHC vs. CIN
Jul 29, CHC vs. PIT
Jul 30, CHC vs. PIT
Jul 31, CHC vs. PIT

Aug 2, CHC vs. STL
Aug 2, CHC vs. STL
Aug 3, CHC vs. STL
Aug 4, CHC vs. STL
Aug 6, CHC vs. CLV
Aug 7, CHC vs. CLV
Aug 8, CHC vs. CLV
Aug 9, CHC @ LOU
Aug 10, CHC @ LOU
Aug 11, CHC @ LOU
Aug 12, CHC @ LOU
Aug 13, CHC @ CIN
Aug 14, CHC @ CIN
Aug 15, CHC @ CIN
Aug 19, CHC @ WHS
Aug 20, CHC @ WHS
Aug 20, CHC @ WHS
Aug 21, CHC @ WHS
Aug 24, CHC @ BLN
Aug 24, CHC @ BLN
Aug 25, CHC @ BLN
Aug 26, CHC @ NYG
Aug 27, CHC @ NYG
Aug 27, CHC @ NYG
Aug 28, CHC @ NYG
Aug 30, CHC @ NYG
Aug 31, CHC @ BSN

Sep 1, CHC @ BSN
Sep 3, CHC @ BSN
Sep 3, CHC @ BSN
Sep 4, CHC @ BRO
Sep 6, CHC @ BRO
Sep 6, CHC @ BRO
Sep 8, CHC @ PHI
Sep 9, CHC @ PHI
Sep 10, CHC @ PHI
Sep 11, CHC @ BLN
Sep 13, CHC @ BLN
Sep 13, CHC @ BLN
Sep 14, CHC @ BLN
Sep 15, CHC @ BLN
Sep 18, CHC vs. LOU
Sep 19, CHC vs. LOU
Sep 21, CHC @ CLV
Sep 22, CHC @ CLV
Sep 23, CHC @ CLV
Sep 25, CHC @ PIT
Sep 27, CHC @ PIT
Sep 28, CHC @ PIT

Oct 2, CHC @ STL
Oct 3, CHC @ STL
Oct 3, CHC @ STL

Top 12 Players

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Team Batting

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Team Batting
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Malachi Kittridge	27	79	291	262	25	53	5	5	1	30	9		22	11	.202	.264	.271	.535	40	71		0	7
2	1B	Cap Anson	45	114	497	424	67	121	17	3	3	75	11		60	27	.285	.379	.361	.740	93	153		4	9
3	2B	Jim Connor	34	77	318	285	40	83	10	5	3	38	10		24	20	.291	.355	.393	.748	95	112		4	5
4	SS	Bill Dahlen	27	75	339	276	67	80	18	8	6	40	15		43	25	.290	.399	.478	.877	128	132		7	13
5	3B	Bill Everitt*	28	92	426	379	63	119	14	7	5	39	26		36	37	.314	.373	.427	.801	108	162		0	11
6	OF	George Decker*	31	111	465	428	72	124	12	7	5	63	11		24	14	.290	.333	.386	.719	87	165		4	9
7	OF	Jimmy Ryan	34	136	587	520	103	156	33	17	5	85	27		50	27	.300	.369	.458	.827	115	238		7	10
8	OF	Bill Lange	26	118	541	479	119	163	24	14	5	83	73		48	12	.340	.406	.480	.886	130	230		5	9
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	IF	Barry McCormick	22	101	458	419	87	112	8	10	2	55	44		33	51	.267	.324	.348	.672	75	146		2	4
10	UT	Jimmy Callahan	23	94	383	360	60	105	18	6	3	47	12		10	25	.292	.320	.400	.720	87	144		5	8
11	OF	Walter Thornton*	22	75	305	265	39	85	9	6	0	55	13		30	16	.321	.402	.400	.802	109	106		6	4
12	C	Tim Donahue*	27	58	203	188	28	45	7	3	0	21	3		9	9	.239	.281	.309	.590	54	58		2	4
13	2B	Fred Pfeffer	37	32	131	114	10	26	0	1	0	11	5		12	5	.228	.318	.246	.563	48	28		3	2
14	OF	Tom Hernon	30	4	17	16	2	1	0	0	0	2	1		0	4	.063	.063	.063	.125	-67	1		0	1
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
15	P	Clark Griffith	27	46	183	162	27	38	8	4	0	21	2		18	8	.235	.311	.333	.644	68	54		0	3
16	P	Danny Friend*	24	25	94	88	12	25	5	0	0	9	1		5	5	.284	.323	.341	.663	73	30		0	1
17	P	Buttons Briggs	21	22	86	81	5	13	0	1	0	5	1		3	15	.160	.190	.185	.376	-2	15		0	2
18	P	Roger Denzer*	25	12	40	39	4	6	1	0	0	1	0		1	10	.154	.175	.179	.354	-8	7		0	0
19	P	Jim Korwan	23	5	13	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	5	.000	.077	.000	.077	-79	0		0	0
20	P	Dave Wright	21	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	119	1		0	0
21	P	Adonis Terry	32	1	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0	1
		Team Totals	29.3	138	5385	4803	832	1356	189	97	38	681	264		430	327	.282	.347	.386	.733	91	1853		49	103
		Rank in 12 NL teams				5	4	7	8	2	4		3		3	7	8	8	7	8		5		9
		Non-Pitcher Totals	29.7	138	4961	4415	782	1273	175	92	38	644	260		401	283	.288	.354	.395	.750	95	1746		49	96
		Pitcher Totals	24.9	138	424	388	50	83	14	5	0	37	4		29	44	.214	.269	.276	.544	42	107		0	7
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

Team Pitching

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Clark Griffith	27	21	18	.538	3.72	41	38	3	38	1	1	343.2	410	231	142	3	86		102	17	0	11	1500	119	3.74	1.443	10.7	0.1	2.3	2.7	1.19
2	SP	Danny Friend*	24	12	11	.522	4.52	24	24	0	23	0	0	203.0	244	144	102	5	86		58	17	0	1	930	98	4.59	1.626	10.8	0.2	3.8	2.6	0.67
3	SP	Jimmy Callahan	23	12	9	.571	4.03	23	22	1	21	1	0	189.2	221	111	85	6	55		52	8	0	6	829	110	4.18	1.455	10.5	0.3	2.6	2.5	0.95
4	SP	Buttons Briggs	21	4	17	.190	5.26	22	22	0	21	0	0	186.2	246	166	109	6	85		60	9	0	6	876	84	4.60	1.773	11.9	0.3	4.1	2.9	0.71
5	SP	Walter Thornton*	22	6	7	.462	4.70	16	16	0	15	0	0	130.1	164	91	68	4	51		55	6	0	2	595	95	4.19	1.650	11.3	0.3	3.5	3.8	1.08
6	SP	Roger Denzer	25	2	8	.200	5.13	12	10	2	8	0	0	94.2	125	91	54	4	34		17	2	0	4	433	87	4.65	1.680	11.9	0.4	3.2	1.6	0.50
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
7		Jim Korwan*	23	1	2	.333	5.82	5	4	1	3	0	0	34.0	47	36	22	1	28		12	1	1	1	174	77	5.55	2.206	12.4	0.3	7.4	3.2	0.43
8		Adonis Terry	32	0	1	.000	10.13	1	1	0	1	0	0	8.0	11	10	9	0	6		1	2	0	0	42	46	6.07	2.125	12.4	0.0	6.8	1.1	0.17
9		Dave Wright	21	1	0	1.000	15.43	1	1	0	1	0	0	7.0	17	14	12	1	2		4	2	0	1	41	30	5.75	2.714	21.9	1.3	2.6	5.1	2.00
		Team Totals	24.1	59	73	.447	4.53	138	138	7	131	2	1	1197.0	1485	894	603	30	433		361	64	1	32	5420	98	4.29	1.602	11.2	0.2	3.3	2.7	0.83
		Rank in 12 NL teams		9	4		8				1	9	8	2	11	11	10	7	9		2
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W