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HARTFORD DARK BLUES
1876 Finish: 5th place, 34-34
1877 Prediction: 5th place
Hartford struggled financially in 1876, as they are one of the smaller cities in the National League. For 1877 they will actually play their home games in Union Grounds in Brooklyn, as the New York area has been left without a National League team after the expulsion of the champion New York Mutuals. While the club is not appreciably worse than in 1876, they did not improve themselves much. They seem unlikely to catch any of the clubs ahead of them and will likely not be a competing team. Projected starters:
c - Deacon White (batted .278 with Philadelphia in 1876)
1b - Everett Mills (batted .310 in 1876)
2b - Andy Leonard (batted .293 in 1876)
ss - Tom Carey (batted .261 in 1876)
3b - Joe Battin (batted .282 in 1876)
lf - George Seward (batted .244 in 1876)
cf - Holly Hollingshead (batted .281 in 1876)
rf - Clipper Flynn (batted .265 with Philadelphia in 1876)
p - Hugh Campbell (17-6, 1.50 ERA with New York in 1876)
p - Jim Britt (2-3, 2.81 ERA with Boston in 1876)
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