Pre-modern baseball championship
The "Hall Cup " was awarded to the Giants for defeating the Browns in the 1888 series. Now on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York , the exhibit says the cup is "baseball's oldest existing World Championship trophy". The 1888 World Series was an end-of-the-year professional baseball season championship playoff series between the National League champion New York Giants and the old American Association champion St. Louis Browns .
The Giants won, 6 games to 4.[1] Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe went 4–0.[2]
This was the Browns' last appearance in a championship tournament and pre-modern-era World Series , the last of their four consecutive AA pennants. The club would later join the NL in 1892 and be renamed as the St. Louis Cardinals by 1900. It would be 1926 before they would win their next league pennant.
Game summary [ edit ] Art Whitney Tim Keefe John Montgomery Ward October 16, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 New York Giants 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 x 2 2 4 Win: Tim Keefe (1–0) Loss: Silver King (0–1) Home Runs: none
October 17, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 4 New York Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 Win: Elton Chamberlain (1–0) Loss: Mickey Welch (0–1) Home Runs: none
October 18, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 5 New York Giants 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 x 4 5 2 Win: Tim Keefe (2–0) Loss: Silver King (0–2) Home Runs: none
October 20, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 5 New York Giants 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 9 2 Win: Tim Keefe (3–0) Loss: Silver King (0–3) Home Runs: none
Game 10 [ edit ] Series stats [ edit ] New York Giants [ edit ] Batting [ edit ] Player G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG OBP SLG Willard Brown 2 8 8 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.375 0.375 0.500 Roger Connor 7 27 23 7 7 1 2 0 3 4 4 0 0.304 0.407 0.522 Ed Crane 2 7 7 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0.143 0.143 0.143 Buck Ewing 7 27 26 5 9 0 2 1 6 5 1 3 0.346 0.370 0.615 Bill George 2 9 9 2 3 1 0 1 4 0 0 2 0.333 0.333 0.778 George Gore 3 13 11 5 5 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 0.455 0.538 0.545 Gil Hatfield 2 9 8 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0.250 0.333 0.250 Tim Keefe 4 13 11 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0.091 0.231 0.091 Pat Murphy 3 10 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.100 0.100 0.100 Jim O'Rourke 10 40 36 4 8 0 0 0 1 3 4 2 0.222 0.300 0.222 Danny Richardson 9 39 36 6 6 2 0 0 6 3 3 5 0.167 0.231 0.222 Mike Slattery 10 39 39 6 8 2 0 0 5 6 0 5 0.205 0.205 0.256 Mike Tiernan 10 46 38 8 13 0 0 1 6 5 8 2 0.342 0.457 0.421 Ledell Titcomb 1 4 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.500 0.500 0.750 John Ward 8 30 29 4 11 1 0 0 6 6 1 0 0.379 0.400 0.414 Mickey Welch 2 7 7 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.286 0.286 0.286 Art Whitney 10 38 37 7 12 0 1 0 12 2 1 4 0.324 0.342 0.378 Team Totals 10 366 339 64 94 10 5 3 55 38 27 30 0.277 0.331 0
Pitching [ edit ] Player G W – L SV GS CG SHO IP H HR BB SO R ER ERA Ed Crane 2 1–1 0 2 2 0 17.0 15 0 6 12 10 4 2.12 Bill George 1 0–1 0 1 1 0 10.0 15 1 3 4 14 8 7.20 Gil Hatfield 1 0–0 0 0 0 0 5.0 12 1 3 2 12 7 12.60 Tim Keefe 4 4–0 0 4 4 0 35.0 18 0 9 30 12 2 0.51 Ledell Titcomb 1 0–1 0 1 0 0 4.0 5 1 2 2 6 3 6.75 Mickey Welch 2 1–1 0 2 2 0 17.0 10 0 9 2 8 5 2.65 Team Totals 10 6–4 0 10 9 0 88.0 75 3 32 52 62 29 2.97
St. Louis Browns [ edit ] Batting [ edit ] Player G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG OBP SLG Jack Boyle 4 18 16 4 7 0 1 0 4 3 2 2 0.438 0.500 0.563 Elton Chamberlain 5 17 13 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 0.000 0.235 0.000 Charlie Comiskey 10 42 41 6 11 1 1 0 3 4 1 1 0.268 0.286 0.341 Jim Devlin 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 Ed Herr 3 11 11 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0.091 0.091 0.091 Silver King 5 16 15 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0.067 0.125 0.067 Arlie Latham 10 45 40 10 10 0 0 0 3 11 5 6 0.250 0.333 0.250 Harry Lyons 5 18 17 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 0.118 0.167 0.118 Tommy McCarthy 10 41 41 10 10 1 0 1 9 6 0 0 0.244 0.244 0.341 Jocko Milligan 8 28 25 5 10 2 1 0 4 0 3 3 0.400 0.464 0.560 Tip O'Neill 10 43 37 8 9 1 0 2 11 0 6 3 0.243 0.349 0.432 Yank Robinson 10 42 36 7 9 2 1 0 7 2 6 12 0.250 0.357 0.361 Bill White 10 38 35 4 5 1 0 0 4 1 3 6 0.143 0.211 0.171 Team Totals 10 362 330 60 75 8 4 3 46 29 32 52 0.227 0.296 0
Pitching [ edit ] Player G W – L SV GS CG SHO IP H HR BB SO R ER ERA Elton Chamberlain 5 2–3 0 5 5 1 44.0 52 3 16 13 36 26 5.32 Jim Devlin 1 1–0 0 0 0 0 7.0 5 0 2 5 3 2 2.57 Silver King 5 1–3 0 5 4 0 35.0 37 0 9 12 23 9 2.31 Team Totals 10 4–6 0 10 9 1 86.0 94 3 27 30 62 37 3.87
Series summary [ edit ] Game Score Date Ballpark, City Attendance 1 Browns 1 – 2 Giants October 16 Polo Grounds , New York City 4,876 2 Browns 3 – 0 Giants October 17 Polo Grounds , New York City 5,575 3 Browns 2 – 4 Giants October 18 Polo Grounds , New York City 5,780 4 Giants 6 – 3 Browns October 19 Washington Park , Brooklyn, New York 3,062 5 Browns 4 – 6 Giants (8 innings) October 20 Polo Grounds , New York City 9,124 6 Giants 12 – 5 Browns (8 innings) October 22 Philadelphia Baseball Grounds , Philadelphia 3,281 7 Giants 5 – 7 Browns (8 innings) October 24 Sportsman's Park , St. Louis, Missouri 4,624 8 Giants 11 – 3 Browns October 25 Sportsman's Park , St. Louis, Missouri 4,865 9 Giants 11 – 14 Browns October 26 Sportsman's Park , St. Louis, Missouri 711 10 Giants 7 – 18 Browns October 27 Sportsman's Park , St. Louis, Missouri 412
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