Baseball – 1800’s
The 1800’s: We have been baseball fans for over 60 years and like many of you we have played, watched, read, researched, listened, and discussed … a mind boggling amount of baseball. So, we think we can say without reservation that there is no better view of the beginning of baseball history than these 36 box score cards. These box score game cards represent the foundation of baseball history. They take you on a journey from baseball’s primitive beginning (1845) … on a lazy fall day when someone decided to keep the box score of a game, to the end of the 19th Century when baseball was a way of life for most Americans.
Take a second and think about that era in American history. Up until 1830’s there were no leisure activities in America if you exclude barn raising but by the 1850’s baseball had swept the country from the industrial cities in the east to the expansion of the west starting with the Ohio valley. Even after a devastating civil war and an industrial revolution that had separated the masses, baseball was the constant uniting element in the America’s character. By the end of the eighteenth-century baseball had no equal in the fiber of America’s life. This 1800 series is a very special. Enjoy viewing the cards and related stories.
Important Note: These 1800’s box score game cards are part of our original box score set, a rare collectible. And, since the set was published in 1993 a few additional facts have surfaced. One such example: It had always been believed that ‘Old Hoss’ Radbourn had 60 wins in the 1884 season. However, after publishing the set it was discovered (with the explosion of information & technology) that in fact ‘Old Hoss’ had only 59 wins for the ’84 season. 59, 60 … regardless, ‘Old Hoss’ had quite a year including wining all three games of baseball’s first post season championship.
Enjoy viewing the box scores and their related stories … quite a series
1800 Historic games included: 1845, 1858, 1870, 1871, 1876 (5), 1880, 1881, 1882 (3), 1883 (4), 1884 (3), 1885, 1886 (2), 1887, 1890, 1892 (3), 1894(2), 1896, 1897 (2), 1898 & 1899.
And, five 1800 world championship matches: 1884, 1885, 1886, 1890 & 1894.
Card # 1 – 1845 (First recorded box score)
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Card # 2 – 1858 (The great baseball match)
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Card # 3 – 1870 (The greatest baseball team ever?)
Card # 4 – 1871 (First organized professional baseball league)
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Card # 5 – 1876 (National League opens first season,140 years ago)
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Card # 6 – 1876 (First shutout in ML history)
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Card # 7 – 1876 (First homerun in NL history)
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Card # 8 – 1876 (Most errors in one game, ML record)
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Card # 9 – 1876 (McVey, 6-6, 2 consecutive games)
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Card # 10 – 1880 (First perfect game in ML history)
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Card # 11 – 1881 (First grand slam in NL history)
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Card # 12 – 1882 (New league – American Association)
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Card # 13 – 1882 (28 hits, 33 runners,103 TB ML recs)
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Card # 14 – 1882 (35 runs, one game, ML rec)
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Card # 15 – 1883 (Worst pitching performance?)
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Card # 16 – 1883 (Worst skunking in ML)
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Card # 17 – 1883 (18 runs … in one Inning ML rec)
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Card # 18 – 1883 (61 games pitched, 48 loses, 538 innings)
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Card # 19 – 1884 (New league opens season – Union Association)
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Card # 20 – 1884 (One-arm Daily strikes out 19 batters)
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Card # 21 – 1884 (0-0 Tie – call due to darkness)
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Card # 22 – 1885 (8 triples, 4 by Stief in one game, ML rec)
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Card # 23 – 1886 (What a day for pitcher Guy Hecker!)
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Card # 24 – 1886 (Kilroy fans his 515 batter, ML rec!)
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Card # 25 – 1887 (O’Neil has a year to remember …)
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Card # 26 – 1890 (New league – Players’ League)
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Card # 27 – 1892 (First ML pinch hitter, after 15 years of play!)
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Card # 28 – 1892 (First player to record 7 hits in a 9-inning game)
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Card # 29 – 1892 (First ML game, Jones throws a no-hitter!)
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Card # 30 – 1894 (Lowe hits 4 home runs, first ML player)
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Card # 31 – 1894 (Philadelphia collects 36 hits, ML rec)
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Card # 32 – 1896 (Tripler header, last in ML history)
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Card # 33 – 1897 (Stealing … I don’t think so … Farrell!)
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Card # 34 – 1897 (Colts AKA Cubs win, 36 – 7, ML rec)
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Card # 35- 1898 (What a ML debut!)
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Card # 36 – 1899 (Nichols … what a decade!)
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