1888 Kansas City Cowboys season
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Manager(s) | Dave Rowe, Sam Barkley, Bill Watkins |
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The 1888 Kansas City Cowboys baseball team finished with a 43–89 record, winding up in last place in the American Association during their debut season.
Regular season[]
Season standings[]
American Association | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
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St. Louis Browns | 92 | 43 | 0.681 | — | 60–21 | 32–22 |
Brooklyn Bridegrooms | 88 | 52 | 0.629 | 6½ | 53–20 | 35–32 |
Philadelphia Athletics | 81 | 52 | 0.609 | 10 | 55–20 | 26–32 |
Cincinnati Red Stockings | 80 | 54 | 0.597 | 11½ | 56–25 | 24–29 |
Baltimore Orioles | 57 | 80 | 0.416 | 36 | 30–26 | 27–54 |
Cleveland Blues | 50 | 82 | 0.379 | 40½ | 33–27 | 17–55 |
Louisville Colonels | 48 | 87 | 0.356 | 44 | 27–29 | 21–58 |
Kansas City Cowboys | 43 | 89 | 0.326 | 47½ | 23–34 | 20–55 |
Record vs. opponents[]
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Team | BAL | BR | CIN | CLE | KC | LOU | PHI | STL | |||||||||
Baltimore | — | 8–12 | 6–14 | 10–9 | 11–8 | 11–9 | 5–14 | 6–14 | |||||||||
Brooklyn | 12–8 | — | 14–6–1 | 16–4 | 11–9 | 13–7 | 12–8–1 | 10–10–1 | |||||||||
Cincinnati | 14–6 | 6–14–1 | — | 10–7–1 | 15–4 | 17–3–1 | 10–10 | 8–10 | |||||||||
Cleveland | 9–10 | 4–16 | 7–10–1 | — | 10–9 | 9–8–2 | 7–13 | 4–16 | |||||||||
Kansas City | 8–11 | 9–11 | 4–15 | 9–10 | — | 6–12 | 3–14 | 4–16 | |||||||||
Louisville | 9–11 | 7–13 | 3–17–1 | 8–9–2 | 12–6 | — | 5–15–1 | 4–16 | |||||||||
Philadelphia | 14–5 | 8–12–1 | 10–10 | 13–7 | 14–3 | 15–5–1 | — | 7–10–1 | |||||||||
St. Louis | 14–6 | 10–10–1 | 10–8 | 16–4 | 16–4 | 16–4 | 10–7–1 | — |
Opening Day lineup[]
Roster[]
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1888 Kansas City Cowboys team photograph
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Pitchers | Catchers
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Outfielders | Manager |
Player stats[]
Batting[]
Starters by position[]
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 |
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C | Jim Donahue | 88 | 337 | 79 | .234 | 1 | 28 |
1B | Bill Phillips | 129 | 509 | 120 | .236 | 1 | 56 |
2B | Sam Barkley | 116 | 482 | 104 | .216 | 4 | 51 |
3B | Jumbo Davis | 121 | 491 | 131 | .267 | 3 | 61 |
SS | Henry Easterday | 115 | 401 | 76 | .190 | 3 | 37 |
OF | Myron Allen | 37 | 136 | 29 | .213 | 0 | 10 |
OF | Jim McTamany | 130 | 516 | 127 | .246 | 4 | 41 |
OF | Monk Cline | 73 | 293 | 69 | .235 | 0 | 19 |
Other batters[]
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
Player | G | AB | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
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Law Daniels | 61 | 218 | 45 | .206 | 2 | 28 |
Frank Hankinson | 37 | 155 | 27 | .174 | 1 | 20 |
Billy Hamilton | 35 | 129 | 34 | .264 | 0 | 11 |
Dave Rowe | 32 | 122 | 21 | .172 | 0 | 13 |
Jack Brennan | 34 | 118 | 20 | .169 | 0 | 6 |
Jim Burns | 16 | 66 | 20 | .303 | 0 | 4 |
Red Ehret | 17 | 63 | 12 | .190 | 0 | 4 |
Fatty Briody | 13 | 48 | 10 | .208 | 0 | 8 |
Charley Jones | 6 | 25 | 4 | .160 | 0 | 5 |
Charlie Hoover | 3 | 10 | 3 | .300 | 0 | 1 |
Ed Glenn | 3 | 8 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching[]
Starting pitchers[]
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
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Henry Porter | 55 | 474 | 18 | 37 | 4.16 | 145 |
Tom Sullivan | 24 | 214.2 | 8 | 16 | 3.40 | 84 |
Bill Fagan | 17 | 142.1 | 5 | 11 | 5.69 | 49 |
Frank Hoffman | 12 | 104 | 3 | 9 | 5.69 | 49 |
Steve Toole | 12 | 91.2 | 5 | 6 | 6.68 | 35 |
Red Ehret | 7 | 52 | 3 | 2 | 3.98 | 12 |
John Kirby | 5 | 43 | 1 | 4 | 4.19 | 11 |
Myron Allen | 2 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 2.50 | 2 |
Frank Hafner | 2 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 7.00 | 5 |
References[]
Categories:
- Kansas City Cowboys
- 1888 Major League Baseball season
- 1888 in sports in Missouri
- Baseball season stubs
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