1875 Philadelphia Athletics season

1875 Philadelphia Athletics
1875 Philadelphia Athletics
Major League affiliations
	National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (since 1871);
Location
	Jefferson Street Grounds (since 1871); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (since 1860);
Other information
Manager(s)	Dick McBride, Cap Anson
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The 1875 Athletic Baseball Club of Philadelphia finished in second place in the National Association with a record of 53-20. The team played one game in Dover, Delaware, during the season, and otherwise played its home games at Fairview Park Fair Grounds.^[1] The National Association folded after this season, and the Athletics joined the new National League for the 1876 season.

Regular season[]

National Association	W	L	T	GB	Pct.
Boston Red Stockings	71	8	3	--	.884
Philadelphia Athletics	53	20	4	15.0	.714
Hartford Dark Blues	54	28	3	18.5	.659
St. Louis Brown Stockings	39	29	2	26.5	.571
Philadelphia White Stockings	37	31	2	28.5	.542
Chicago White Stockings	30	37	2	35.0	.449
New York Mutuals	30	38	3	35.5	.443
New Haven Elm Citys	7	40	-	48.0	.149
Washington Nationals	5	23	-	40.5	.179
St. Louis Red Stockings	4	15	-	37.0	.211
Philadelphia Centennials	2	12	-	36.5	.143
Brooklyn Atlantics	2	42	-	51.5	.045
Keokuk Westerns	1	12	-	37.0	.077

1875 National Association Records v t Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
Team	BOS	BR	CHI	HAR	KEO	NH	NY	PHA	PHC	PWS	SLB	SLR	WSH
Boston	—	6–0	8–2	9–1	1–0	5–1	10–0	8–2–2	4–0	6–0–1	7–2	1–0	6–0
Brooklyn	0–6	—	0–2	0–10	0–0	2–1	0–7	0–7	0–0	0–7	0–2	0–0	0–0
Chicago	2–8	2–0	—	4–6–1	4–0	2–1	3–3	1–7–1	0–0	3–7	5–5	4–0	0–0
Hartford	1–9	10–0	6–4–1	—	0–0	8–1	8–2–2	4–3–1	1–0	4–4	5–5	3–0	4–0
Keokuk	0–1	0–0	0–4	0–0	—	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	1–2	0–0
New Haven	1–5	1–2	1–2	1–8	0–0	—	1–5	0–7	0–1	0–4	1–2	0–0	1–4
New York	0–10	7–0	3–3	2–8–2	1–0	5–1	—	3–6	2–0	5–2	0–8–1	2–0	0–0
Philadelphia Athletics	2–8–2	7–0	7–1–1	3–4–1	0–0	7–0	6–3	—	2–1	8–2	6–1	0–0	5–0
Philadelphia Centennials	0–4	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	—	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Philadelphia White Stockings	0–6–1	7–0	7–3	4–4	0–0	4–0	2–5	2–8	3–0	—	5–5–1	1–0	2–0
St. Louis Brown Stockings	2–7	2–0	5–5	5–5	4–0	2–1	8–0–1	1–6	0–0	5–5–1	—	2–0	3–0
St. Louis Red Stockings	0–1	0–0	0–4	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	—	2–1
Washington	0–6	0–0	0–0	0–4	0–0	4–1	0–0	0–5	0–0	0–2	0–3	1–2	—

1875 Philadelphia Athletics

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	John Clapp	60	292	77	.264	0	39
1B	Wes Fisler	58	268	74	.276	0	31
2B	Bill Craver	54	260	83	.319	2	40
SS	Davy Force	77	386	120	.311	0	49
3B	Ezra Sutton	75	358	116	.324	1	59
OF	Dave Eggler	66	295	89	.302	0	33
OF	George Hall	77	358	107	.299	4	62
OF	George Bechtel	35	164	46	.280	0	20

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	RBI
Cap Anson	69	326	106	.325	58
John Richmond	29	125	25	.200	12
Adam Rocap	16	69	12	.174	4
Al Reach	3	14	4	.286	1
William Coon	4	12	2	.167	1
Henry Gilroy (baseball)	2	6	1	.167	0

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Dick McBride	60	538	44	14	2.33	27
Lon Knight	13	107	6	5	2.27	15
George Bechtel	4	36	1	0	2.50	3

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Ezra Sutton	2	6	0	0	10.50	0

1875 Philadelphia Athletics
Major League affiliations
National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (since 1871)
Location
Jefferson Street Grounds (since 1871) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (since 1860)
Other information
Manager(s)	Dick McBride, Cap Anson
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