Regular season 1882 St. Louis Brown Stockings season




1 regular season

1.1 season standings
1.2 record vs. opponents
1.3 roster





regular season

in 1866, gus solari laid out professional baseball field @ sportsman s park, st louis. sixteen years later, on may 2, 1882, opening day of st. louis brown stockings 1882 season took place. approximately 2,000 spectators watched game fee of 1 quarter each. team played numerous local teams in april exhibitions.


mcginnis first pitcher , started forty-five of team s eighty games. jack gleason made team s first hit. lead off single in first innings. scored first run on comiskey s three-base hit. team won first game score of 9 points 7. mcginnis contributed 2 doubles.


in late may 1882, team in tie first place in six-team league. had 8 games on 0.500 putting them 1 game behind cincinnati reds. there followed 7 week period when team lost sixteen more games won. not contend championship.


during season, more 175,000 spectators attended team s games. favourite players on team comiskey , mcginnis.


season standings



record vs. opponents



roster








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