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11 unusual facts about 1882 in baseball


1882 Philadelphia Athletics season

The 1882 season was the first season for the brand new Philadelphia Athletics (no relation, except by name, to the previous Philadelphia Athletics team).

1882 Pittsburg Alleghenys season

The 1882 season was the first as a major league club for the Alleghenys, which had previously played as an independent team.

Bank Street Grounds

A new Reds franchise was formed as an American Association club in 1882.

Bill Smiley

William B. Smiley (born in 1856 in Baltimore, Maryland – died July 11, 1884 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a professional baseball player who primarily played second base in the American Association for the St. Louis Brown Stockings and the Baltimore Orioles for one season in 1882.

Brooklyn Atlantics

Atlantic was not invited to join the National League when that circuit was formed in 1876, but continued to play an independent schedule until at least 1882.

A remnant Atlantic was invited to join the upstart American Association in 1882 but failed to satisfy the requirements for doing so.

Charlie Buffinton

Charles G. Buffinton, born Buffington (June 14, 1861 – September 23, 1907), was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1882 to 1892.

Harry Salisbury

After attending Brown University, Salisbury had a record of 6 wins and 4 losses for the Troy Trojans in 1879, and three years later was 20–18 for the 1882 Pittsburgh Alleghenys, completing all 38 of his starts.

Jack Gleason

He then played in the American Association for the St. Louis Browns in 1882 and the beginning of 1883 and the Louisville Eclipse for the majority of 1883.

Joe Crotty

Crotty played from 18821886 in the American Association for the Louisville Eclipses, St. Louis Brown Stockings, and New York Metropolitans and for the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds in the Union Association.

Louisville Colonels

The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891, first as the Louisville Eclipse (1882–1884) and later as the Louisville Colonels (1885–1891), the latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels.