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unusual facts about Union Association



Abraham G. Mills

Unsurprisingly, the agreement was unpopular with players, who organized to form a new league for the 1884 season, the Union Association, which did not recognize the reserve rule or salary limitations.

Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies

The Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies (also known as Chicago/Pittsburgh) were a short-lived professional baseball team in the Union Association of 1884.

Jack Gleason

From 18841885 Gleason played for the St. Louis Maroons during their only season in the Union Association and their first in the National League.

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.

John Roll McLean

McLean was also a one-time partner in the ownership of the Cincinnati Red Stockings baseball team of the American Association and also the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the Union Association.

Tom Loftus

His first managerial job came in 1884 with the Milwaukee Brewers of the short-lived Union Association (it only lasted one year), in which he only managed 12 games (going 8–4).

Wilmington Quicksteps

The Wilmington Quicksteps were an 1884 late season replacement baseball team in the Union Association.


see also

Baltimore Monumentals

The Monumentals' home ground was the Belair Lot, which was sometimes known as the Union Association Grounds.

Bank Street Grounds

In 1884, a former prominent member of the Reds front-office, a man named Justus Thorner, invested in the new Union Association club.

Social Democratic Party of Ukraine

New Ukraine association included also such parties as Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine (PDVU), Constitutional Democratic Party of Ukraine (kadets), Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine (LDPU) as well as number of public associations such as Ukrainian Student Association (USS), trade union association "Yednist", and others.