The 1899 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 75–77 record and ninth place in the National League. Following the season, owner Barney Dreyfuss bought the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and folded his Louisville team. Manager Fred Clarke and most of the players moved over to the Pirates where they enjoyed much more success in the coming years. The Colonels, a perennial also-ran through their National League run from 1892 to 1899, appeared to be on the cusp of becoming a strong team when the National League contracted from 12 teams to 8 after the end of the 1899 season. Louisville started the season with a 15–37 record after 52 games, but then went 60–40 in their last 100 in the first glimpse of what was to become a strong Pirates team in the years to come. Many star players, including several Hall of Famers, of the first decade of the 20th Century came from the 1899 Louisville squad including Clarke, Honus Wagner, Rube Waddell, Deacon Phillippe, Tommy Leach and Claude Ritchey.
and 22 Related for: 1899 Louisville Colonels season information
The 1899LouisvilleColonels baseball team finished with a 75–77 record and ninth place in the National League. Following the season, owner Barney Dreyfuss...
the Kentucky Colonel. After the AA folded in 1891, the Colonels joined the National League and played through the 1899season. "Colonels" was also the...
(east) and Broadway (north). The LouisvilleColonels played there from early in the 1893 season until well into the 1899season. This is the ground at which...
The LouisvilleColonels were a Major League Baseball team that played from 1882 to 1899 and were based in Louisville, Kentucky. The team played in the...
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders season was the team's 13th and final season in Major League Baseball (MLB), and their 11th season in the National League (NL)...
Comics titles – The Colonel of Two Worlds (a parody of Flash of Two Worlds), The Colonel Corps: The Crisis of Infinite Colonels (a parody of Crisis on...
The LouisvilleColonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in Louisville, Kentucky. They played in the American Association when it was considered...
The 1898 LouisvilleColonels baseball team finished with a 70–81 record and ninth place in the National League. Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played;...
Chicago White Stockings, Toledo Maumees, Baltimore Orioles, and LouisvilleColonels from 1885 to 1892. He was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed...
released by the Cleveland Spiders. May 25 – Deacon Phillippe of the LouisvilleColonels pitches a 7–0 no-hitter against the New York Giants. June 2 – The...
the LouisvilleColonels in the 1898 rule 5 draft. Croft had his professional baseball debut at age 23 on May 19, 1899, with the LouisvilleColonels. He...
that Combs drew the attention of the LouisvilleColonels of the American Association. After scouting him, Louisville offered him a contract which provided...
to 1915. A Hall of Famer, Clarke played for and managed both the LouisvilleColonels and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a left fielder and left-handed batter...
League's LouisvilleColonels in 1899. He had a 21–17 record that year, which was highlighted by a no-hitter in his seventh career game. While the Colonels disbanded...
1944) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball for the 1899LouisvilleColonels. He attended Westminster College. He began his professional career...
Kentucky. They played two seasons, 1876 and 1877, and compiled a record of 65–61. Their home games were at the Louisville Baseball Park. The Grays were...
old record of 111 set the previous year by the LouisvilleColonels. That record would stand until 1899, when the Cleveland Spiders lost 134 games, the...
baseball pitcher. He played in the major leagues for four seasons; 1897–1899 with the LouisvilleColonels, and in 1901 with the Milwaukee Brewers and the Cleveland...
who caught for four teams from 1898 to 1909. Powers played for the LouisvilleColonels and Washington Senators of the National League, and the Philadelphia...
Brooklyn Atlantics became the Brooklyn Grays. The Louisville Eclipse became the LouisvilleColonels. The Buffalo Bisons transferred to Minor League Baseball...
promotion to City Editor of the Commercial, he met the owner of the LouisvilleColonels, Barney Dreyfuss. Dreyfuss liked Pulliam and hired him away from...
(OVC) during the 1991 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by 28th-year head coach Roy Kidd, the Colonels compiled an overall record of 12–2, with a mark...
Global Information