1890 Louisville Colonels
1890 American Association Champions
LeagueAmerican Association
BallparkEclipse Park
CityLouisville, Kentucky
OwnerBarney Dreyfuss
ManagerJack Chapman

The 1890 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with an 88–44 record and won the American Association championship. The previous season, the Colonels had lost 111 games, the most any team in the Major Leagues had lost up to that point (the record was broken during the 1890 season by the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, who lost 113 games). This "worst to first" transformation was accomplished partly because of new ownership led by Barney Dreyfuss. Competition was also diminished due to the advent of the Players' League and a couple of the best AA teams jumping to the National League.

After the season, Louisville played the NL champions, the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, in the 1890 World Series. The Bridegrooms were one of the teams that had jumped to the NL, and had been the champions of the AA in 1889. The World Series wound up in a 3–3–1 tie.

Regular season

Season standings

American Association W L Pct. GB Home Road
Louisville Colonels 8844 0.667 — 57–13 31–31
Columbus Solons 7955 0.590 10 47–22 32–33
St. Louis Browns 7858 0.574 12 45–25 33–33
Toledo Maumees 6864 0.515 20 40–27 28–37
Rochester Broncos 6363 0.500 22 40–22 23–41
Baltimore Orioles 1519 0.441 24 8–11 7–8
Syracuse Stars 5572 0.433 30½ 30–30 25–42
Philadelphia Athletics 5478 0.409 34 36–36 18–42
Brooklyn Gladiators 2673 0.263 45½ 15–22 11–51

Record vs. opponents

1890 American Association record

Sources:
Team BAL BR COL LOU PHI ROC STL SYR TOL
Baltimore —0–02–4–21–2–12–25–12–51–22–3–1
Brooklyn 0–0—5–92–132–103–10–14–105–125–9
Columbus 4–2–29–5—10–8–111–910–9–112–8–210–713–7
Louisville 2–1–113–28–10–1—17–311–6–29–1114–514–6
Philadelphia 2–210–29–113–17—7–127–1310–76–14
Rochester 1–510–3–19–10–16–11–212–7—8–12–111–4–16–11–1
St. Louis 5–210–48–12–211–913–712–8–1—10–99–7
Syracuse 2–112–57–105–147–104–11–19–10—9–11
Toledo 3–2–19–57–136–1414–611–6–17–911–9—

Opening Day lineup

Roster

1890 Louisville Colonels
Roster
Pitchers
Catchers
 Infielders Outfielders Manager

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CJack Ryan9333773.217035
1BHarry Taylor134553169.306053
2BTim Shinnick133493126.256182
3BHarry Raymond123521135.259251
SSPhil Tomney108386107.277158
OFCharlie Hamburg133485132.272377
OFFarmer Weaver130557161.289367
OFJimmy Wolf134543197.363498

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Pete Weckbecker3210124.238011
Ned Bligh247315.20519
Dan Phelan8328.25004
Dan O'Connor62612.46205
Henry Easterday7242.08301
Chief Roseman282.25000
Pete Sweeney271.14301

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G GS IP W L SV ERA SO
Scott Stratton5049431.0341402.36207
Red Ehret4338359.0251422.53174
George Meakim2821192.012712.91123
Herb Goodall1813109.08543.3946
Ed Daily121093.06301.9431
Mike Jones3322.02003.276

1890 World Series

Louisville, champions of the American Association, played the National League champions, the Brooklyn Bridegrooms in the 1890 World Series. The series pitted the two most recent American Association champions against each other.

The series winner was to be the first to win four games. Brooklyn started strong, winning the first two games in Louisville, with game 3 called after eight innings with the score tied. Louisville salvaged the fourth game, which was the last one played in Louisville. After Brooklyn won the first game at home to take a 3–1 lead, Louisville came back to win two straight. However, bad weather forced any remaining games to be canceled, with the plan that a deciding game would be played before the 1891 season began. However, due to inter-league disputes, that never occurred, and the series officially ended in a 3–3–1 tie.

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