1871 Top Ten Prospect List
1871 Final Standings
1871 Hitting and Pitching Leaders
1871 News and Notes
Injury News
Rochesters RHP Candy Cummings out 9 months with torn labrum
Cleveland RHP George Snyder out 4-5 months with torn rotator cuff.
Boston LHP Stan Gibbs out for 11 months with torn rotator cuff.
Troy RHP Joes Masiel out 11 months with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament.
Washington RHP Cy Bentley out for 3 months with partially torn labrum
Pitching Notables
Ft, Wayne SP Charles Witherow - 2 hits
Chicago SP George Bradley - 2 hits
Ft. Wayne SP Charles Witherow - 2 hits
Washington SP Cy Bentley - 2 hits
Washington SP Bill Stearns - 2 hits
Washington SP Bill Stearns - 1 hit
Rochester SP Devin Day - 2 hits
Washington SP Bill Stearns - 2 hits
Rochester SP Merlin Home - 2 hits
Ft. Wayne SP Hugh Campbell - 2 hits
New York SP Bill Parks - 2 hits
Philadelphia SP Al Pratt - 2 hits
New York SP Bill Parks - 2 hits
Chicago SP George Bradley stikes out 15
Hitting Notables
Troy LF Charley Jones hits 3 hr.
Cleveland RF Scott Hastings has 6 hits
1871 was the first season for the new game of baseball and 9 teams took the field. One team in particular set out from the beginning of the year to show the rest of the teams what this game was all about and the Olympics from Washington did just that. Winning the inaguraul season by 13 games, never being threatened from the start.
Washington was led by SP Bill Stearns. He won 24 games and had 5 shutouts. On the Offensive side of things, CF Jim Holdsworth, LF Gat Stires, 3b George Fields and 3b Frank Buttery hit over .300.
The inagurual seaon did not disappoint. But not everyone was in the league that wanted to be. The Baltimore Canaries, Brooklyn Atlantics, Middletown Mansfields, Brooklyn Eckfords and Washington Nationals will be joining the league, bringing the team total up to 14 for the 1872 season.