The Browns joined the National League when the American Association folded after the 1891 season and have remained a member ever since.
His professional debut came with the Boston Beaneaters in 1891, but he was in and out of the major leagues, amassing a total of 125 at-bats in five seasons.
Instead, Wagner settled for his own Athletics being admitted to the American Association for the 1891 season.
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.
He left the game after the 1891 season, but he came back to manage the Chicago Orphans and the Washington Senators, and in each of his managerial stops, he would have part ownership of the team.
Major League Baseball | baseball | Texas Rangers (baseball) | minor league baseball | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | manager (baseball) | 1962 in baseball | 2005 in baseball | 1958 in baseball | 2004 in baseball | 1961 in baseball | 1954 in baseball | 1952 in baseball | 1989 in baseball | 1955 in baseball | 1908 in baseball | Major League Baseball All-Star Game | 2006 in baseball | 1998 in baseball | Minor League Baseball | Baseball | 1882 in baseball | Commissioner of Baseball | 1997 in baseball | 1969 in baseball | 1960 in baseball | 1943 in baseball | 1901 in baseball | 1988 in baseball | 1956 in baseball |