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Old 11-25-2013, 04:00 PM   #141
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Promotion and relegation was decided in a series of Test Matches between the bottom three clubs in Division 1 and the top three clubs in Division 2. The third from bottom club in Division 1 played the third club in Division 2, the second from bottom in Division 1 played the second club in Division 2 and the bottom club in Division 1 played the top club in Division 2 in first-to-two-wins test match series with the winners playing in Division 1 the following season and the losers in Division 2.

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Everton Blues and Small Heath Blues maintain their positions in the First Division for 1895. Burton Swifts are relegated to the Second Division for 1895.

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Promotion and relegation was decided in a series of Test Matches between the bottom three clubs in Division 1 and the top three clubs in Division 2. The third from bottom club in Division 1 played the third club in Division 2, the second from bottom in Division 1 played the second club in Division 2 and the bottom club in Division 1 played the top club in Division 2 in one-off matches at neutral venues with the winners playing in Division 1 the following season and the losers in Division 2.

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West Bromwich Albion won promotion to the First Division. Manchester City and Grimsby Town retain their positions in the Second Division.

Three non-league sides challenged the four clubs seeking re-election in the vote for League membership. Voting and votes:

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22      Bury	                Re-elected to the League
22	Woolwich Arsenal	Re-elected to the League
18	Leicester Fosse	        Re-elected to the League
18	Loughborough	        Elected to the League
n/a	Blackpool	        Not elected to the League
n/a	Fairfield Athletic	Not elected to the League
n/a	Newcastle United	Not re-elected to the League
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The almanac for the Baseball League 1894 season can be acquired here, to be perused at your leisure. (WinRAR required to unzip the almanac.)
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Newcastle United Out, Exiled to Midland; Loughborough In

Magpies Club in Financial and Management Shambles

When the Newcastle United club arrived in the Second Division of the Baseball League to start the 1893 season, they did so with the high hopes that accompany a generous club chairman, a large city of interested base ball enthusiasts surrounding them, and a base ball park at St. James capable of seating up to 11,000 paying customers. But such hopes have disintegrated into a morass of mismanagement by the club and apathy by the fans. And so the Magpies have been shown the door by the League, to be replaced in 1895 with the Corinthians of Loughborough.

Although the Magpies were not a sparkling performer in the Midlands before rising to the League, they did have the capacity to place a team on the field that could compete at the elevated level. Instead, chairman Sir Alfred Jones squandered good money on merely average players even after hiring a more than competent manager and coaching crew that includes Abraham Walsh, ex of Preston North End as a second baseman and remade into one of the sharpest coaches of pitchers in the game.

With one of the highest player wage bills in the Division at almost £1,300, the Magpies were repaid with the lowest gate among the sixteen clubs, fewer than 60,000 patrons paying their tanner to watch, and resulting in a loss to the club of several hundred pounds during the course of the campaign. This poor business showing was precipitated by an execrable performance on the pitch itself resulting in a mere twenty-six victories against sixty-four losses, a pathetic 29% winning record. While the season gate started out in hopeful fashion with an opening day attendance of over 3,000 in a 3-6 defeat against London’s Woolwich Arsenal, as the losses mounted, the gate was duly suppressed, barely surpassing 1,000 for nearly every remaining match of the season.

Sir Alfred did himself no favour by allowing his staff to fritter away good money on the likes of batsmen Louis Hall, Ernest Sheehan and Edwin Clark. They’re fine players as far as they go, but they are not the stars deserving of the star salary they have been receiving, and their shortcomings were exposed in painful fashion in a faster professional league than they’ve deserved to play in.

Worse yet, the club have let their pitching staff go to seed, particularly in the absence of Gary Carter, their top starter who was injured in May and missed the entire season. With their only real weapon dispensed of, the Magpies has nowhere to go but down, and down did they go.

Sir Alfred is said to be furious with his club and his situation, but it is the opinion of all were work in the game that he has no one to blame but himself for his state of affairs. Perhaps the exile will do him and his club some good, open his eyes, and lead him to make the changes that will return the club to the League as members in good competitive standing. There is too much quality of fandom and facilities in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to waste in the nether regions of non-League base ball.

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1894 Season News & Notes


The two Divisions of the Baseball League diverged ever so slightly on run scoring and offence in 1894. The First Division showed a slight increase in offence, with +3.0% more runs scored (8,528 versus 8,282 last year), and showed a three-point increase in Division batting average to .282, but also a phenomenal twelve-point rise in OBP to .359. This OBP rise was driven by an astounding 15% increase in walks issued to Division hitters. Extra-base power remained stable as ISO went from .098 to .099.

The increase in offence led to three different players hitting .400 or better for the first time ever: 37-year old Frank Woodward of Blackburn Rovers (.407); Brandon Bradley of Aston Villa Villans (.400); and William Shand of Small Heath Blues (also .400). We also saw records set for walks received by Edwin Dennis of Nottingham Forest with 116; slugging and OPS by young William Perry of Wolverhampton Wanderers (.618 and 1.109, respectively), runs scored by Richard Jarvis of Blackburn with 90; doubles by Charles Holt of Derby County Rams with 33; and the sabermetrtic stats of WAR (8.3) and the Danish expletive stat of VORP (53.8) by Clark. Pitching records set were of either the stamina variety (complete games by William Turner of Sunderland Black Cats, 28; games started by Ernest Rooney of Notts County Magpies, 31) or the dubiousness variety (hits allowed by Percy Young of the Rams, 320; walks issued by Fred Marshall of Small Heath Blues, 203)

The Second Division, on the other hand, saw a negligible decrease in runs, down -21 to 7,693, with a concomitant five point drops in both average (.270) and on-base (.339). However, the Division also saw a goosing in power, with SLG rising six points to .374 on the strength of an increase in doubles (+8.8%), triples (+13.4%) and homers (+10.1%). Despite these, the drop in singles (-5.6%) and walks/HBP combined (-1.9%) is what led to the lack of increase in runs scored.

Nevertheless, offensive records were set in this Division by Frederick McFarlane of Liverpool Reds (triples, 36; total base, 204) and Edwin Stevenson of Manchester City Citizens (hits, 131). Pitching records set, as in the First Division, were of the ignominious variety and included losses (Wayne Stewart of Leicester Fosse Foxes, 25) and bases on balls issues (Maurice Slater of Burton Wanderers, 178).

First Division team records of note were set by Blackburn Rovers in wins (67) and winning percentage (.744), batting average (.316), runs scored (704), hits (1,046) and, importantly, season attendance (183,442, an average of over 4,000 per game). Other offensive records were set by Bolton Wanderers (SLG, .439; triples, 95; stolen bases, 202); Derby County Rams (doubles, 194), and The Wednesday Owls (walks received, 483). No pitching records of note were set except those that were dubious and set by many.

In the Second Division, West Bromwich Albion Hawthorns also set a wins record (60), while the Newcastle Magpies set the record for losses (64). The Hawthorns also set a record for triples (110), and Manchester City set a team low for striking out (109 against 3,188 at bats). Newcastle also set several records of the worst of variety, too many to list here.

The only single game record of note set in either Division was by William Parker of Walsall Town Swifts, who set the D2 record for most stolen bases in a game with six in a 12-3 beating administered to Preston North End.

Charley Brewer of the Newton Heath Red Devils set the mark for most consecutive games with a base hit with 32, snapped on 26 July by going 0-1 against Blackburn Rovers. This broke the hit streak record of 29 set earlier in the season by Edward McCready of Everton.

D1 retirements of note include William O'Doherty, 44, who retired after a terrific seven-year Baseball League career with the Wolverhampton Wanderers, garnering 415 hits with a slash line of .283/.404/.408; and Cornelius Styles, 38, of Stoke Ramblers, author of a 49-58 record with a 3.85 ERA in 985.2 innings pitched over six years.

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1895 Campaign Opens With High Expectations, Surprising Moves

Sunderland Look Strong in Bid to Become First ex-Alliance Champ Versus Blackburn, Villa

Newcastle United Make Dramatic Moves Toward Youth in Effort For League Return

As the dawn of the baseball season for the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Five breaks, there is a palpable anticipation in the air that this could be the year in which one of the ex-Alliance teams break through and make their way to the top of the top level of the League, for the first time in its young tenure. The thinking goes, it has to happen eventually, so why not now?

And the baseball team of the Sunderland club have the talent and the wherewithal to make that happen. They have, arguably, the best player in British baseball in William Clark, the twenty eight year old rightfielder who may have finally supplanted the ageing Ram, Vivian Mad Dash Sharp, in that regard. He has batted .390 and .375 whilst clobbering at least twenty threes, five home runs and forty seven stolen bases in each season, and there’s no reason to believe he cannot do this again. Clark will look to continue his progress of improvement. Sunderland also boast two top starting pitchers in William Tuner (thirteen wins, 2.62 earned runs per nine average) and Enoch Atherton (fifteen wins, 2.93), the former at the prime of his powers and the latter trying to forestall Father Time to turn in a season worthy of the best of his peak.

Blackburn return almost their entire team in defending their two consecutive First Division crowns. The surprising elderly newcomer, Frank Woodward, is a thirty eight year old catcher who stunned the League last year by leading all batsmen with a .407 hits average, and who will be leading the charge this year alongside his equally elderly comrade, first baseman Richard Jarvis, and young rightfielder William Simmonds, who sprang into his own unexpectedly in ’93 along with the lengthened pitching lane. Their goal will be to bludgeon their opponents to death, as they did with 704 blows to the plate last year, whilst their three twenty game winning starting trio of Ernest King, Edmund Parker and Augustus Prowne lead a staff that look to match last year’s lowest runs allowed performance.

The early favourites in the Second Division are the Sheffield United club, who've a quite mature squad with fifteen of their nineteen active players having exceeded their thirtieth birthdays, but who also have the talent of a younger team with the maturity of shared baseball experience to wield in their quest. The Imps of Lincoln City also look very strong, as they seek to become the first former Midland League club to make the top level grade at the end of this year. Do not forget the Burslem Port Vale or Burton Swifts clubs, either. They too will make a spirited run for the top flight.

Down in the hinterlands of non-League baseball, the interesting story to follow is that of Newcastle United. Led by a new administration of executives in the front office, they have gutted key spots on their squad that were manned by barely living creatures and replaced them with a full onslaught of youthful potential. Everyone in the sport who have reviewed their moves agree that they have made a significant investment in the future that should pay off much better than the alleged moves made by the previous regime. The five key signings include Peter Howarth, rightfielder aged twenty three; Charles Wright, first baseman aged twenty two; Jesse Morgan, pitcher aged twenty; Edward James, pitcher aged nineteen, and Richard Vaughan, catcher aged eightenn. All will be playing on the active squad, and all will be expected to contribute mightily to the club’s return to League baseball in short order.

The biggest change this year is the extension of the Squads from eighteen players to nineteen for League clubs, agreed upon during the winter by a narrow majority of votes among the League chairmen and board. The move was made in recognition of the fact that many pitchers have been injured in the past couple of years due to the strain of having to pitch games after having rested only two days since their prior starts during the same work week. Not all clubs approved of the move, nor are they happy at its passage, given that this will create the expectation that they will be bound to carry an extra player to whom they will have to pay an active squad wage. Nevertheless, it is this writer’s opinion that this move will result in healthier pitchers and longer careers overall, and the consensus opinion concurs with this.

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