Cleveland Infants
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| name = Cleveland Infants
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| league = Players' League (1890)
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| stadium = Brotherhood Park (1890)
| founded = 1890
| folded = 1890
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| colors = Navy, pink
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| owner = Al Johnson
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| manager = Henry Larkin & Patsy Tebeau
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The Cleveland Infants were a one-year baseball team in the Players' League, a short-lived Major League that existed only for the 1890 season. Owned by Al Johnson, the Infants finished {{mlby|1890}}, their lone season, with 55 wins and 75 losses. Their home games were played at Brotherhood Park.{{cite web|url=http://www.projectballpark.org/history/pl/brotherhood.html|title=Brotherhood Park|publisher=Project Ballpark|accessdate=November 30, 2016}}
The team included future Baseball Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty, and the league's batting champion, Pete Browning.
The team
The Infants featured star hitter Pete Browning. Browning had defected to the Players' League from the American Association's Louisville Colonels, who had finished the 1889 season with a 27–111 win–loss record.{{cite book|last1=Keenan|first1=Jimmy|editor1-last=Felber|editor1-first=Bill|editor2-last=Fimoff|editor2-first=Mark|editor3-last=Levin|editor3-first=Len|editor4-last=Mancuso|editor4-first=Peter| display-editors = 3|title=Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games that Shaped the 19th Century|date=2013|publisher=Society for American Baseball Research|isbn=978-1933599427|page=231|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rdgAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA231|accessdate=August 16, 2014|chapter=The First Worst to First}} Browning hit for a .373 batting average in 1890, leading the Players' League.{{cite book|last1=Spatz|first1=Lyle|title=Historical Dictionary of Baseball|date=2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0810879546|page=82|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ViiCha8LoBgC&pg=PA82|accessdate=August 16, 2014}} He also led the league in doubles. At one point during the season, he was running the bases and broke up a no-hitter by pitcher Ad Gumbert in the ninth inning of a game. With two outs, Browning was on first base after being hit by a pitch. The batter hit a ground ball and Browning let the ball hit his foot, rendering himself out but crediting the batter with a hit under the rules of that era.{{cite book|last1=Faber|first1=Charles|title=Baseball Prodigies: Best Major League Seasons by Players Under 21|date=2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0786473311|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ArjPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA17}}
Roster
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| colspan="10" style="background-color: navy; color: pink; text-align: center;" | 1890 Cleveland Infants | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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valign="top" | Pitchers
| Jersey Bakely}}
| Charlie Dewald}}
| Bill Gleason}}
| Henry Gruber}}
| George Hemming}}
| Willie McGill}}
| Cinders O'Brien}}
| width="25px" | | valign="top" | Catchers
| Jack Brennan}}
| Pop Snyder}}
| Neil Stynes}}
| Sy Sutcliffe}}
Infielders
| Ed Delahanty}}
| Henry Larkin}}
| Cub Stricker}}
| Patsy Tebeau}}
| width="25px" | | valign="top" | Outfielders
| Jay Budd}}
| Pete Browning}}
| Jack Carney}}
| Jimmy McAleer}}
| Paul Radford}}
| Larry Twitchell}}
| width="25px" | | valign="top" | Manager
| Henry Larkin}}
| Patsy Tebeau}} |
See also
External links
- [https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CLI/ Team history and Encyclopedia]