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$Unique_ID{BAS00061}
$Title{Postseason Play: World Series 1884}
$Subtitle{}
$Author{
Ivor-Campbell, Frederick}
$Subject{World Series 1884 Providence New York}
$Log{}
The Highlights of the Game
Postseason Play: World Series 1884
Frederick Ivor-Campbell
World Series 1884
Providence (NL), 3;
New York (AA), 0
GAME 1 AT NY OCT 23
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NY 000 000 000 0 2 0
PRO 201 000 30X 6 5 2
Pitchers: Keefe vs Radbourn
Attendance: 1,800
GAME 2 AT NY OCT 24
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PRO 000 030 0 3 5 4
NY 000 010 0 1 3 1
Pitchers: RADBOURN vs KEEFE
Home Runs: Denny-PRO
Attendance: 1,000
(Game called at end of seventh, darkness)
GAME 3 AT NY OCT 25
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PRO 120 144 12 9 3
NY 000 011 2 6 9
Pitchers: RADBOURN vs BECANNON
Attendance: 300
(Game called at end of sixth, darkness)
After a flurry of boasts and challenges, Met manager Jim Mutrie and the
Grays' Frank Bancroft arranged a three-game series in New York to determine
which team was the nation's best. These were not the first games between NL
and AA pennant winners. In 1882, the AA's first season, champion Cincinnati
met NL titlist Chicago twice as part of its post-season schedule, in games
viewed simply as exhibition contests. (Each team won one). The next year a
postseason series was proposed between champions Boston (NL) and the Athletics
of Philadelphia (AA), but the Athletics fared so poorly in exhibitions against
lesser NL teams that they refused to face Boston.
The 1884 Series was touted as "for the championship of the United
States," but the influential weekly Sporting Life established precedent for
future Series hype by naming victorious Providence "Champions of the World."
The weather turned cold and windy as the Series got under way. A hardy
opening game crowd of 2,500 saw the Grays' great Charlie "Old Hoss" Radbourn
blank the Mets on two singles. Met pitcher Tim Keefe, wild at the start,
paved the way for two first-inning Providence runs by hitting the first two
men to face him and assisted them around the bases with a pair of wild
pitches. Paul Hines singled in the third for the Grays' first hit and scored
as a passed ball and two more wild pitches brought him home. Keefe yielded
only four other hits, but they came back to back in the seventh to produce the
Grays' final three runs.
The 1,000 spectators at Game Two witnessed the Series' closest contest.
Keefe and Radbourn overwhelmed their opposition for four innings, but in the
top of the fifth the Grays bunched three of their five hits for three two-out
runs as Jerry Denny homered over the center field fence. The Mets responded
with a run in the last of the fifth, but scored no more before darkness ended
the game after seven innings.
The Grays had clinched the championship with their second win, and when
they saw only a few hundred diehards in the stands for Game Three, they wanted
to go home. The Mets must have regretted their insistence on playing the
game. Although darkness halted it after only six innings, rookie Met pitcher
Buck Becannon (replacing Keefe, who umpired) and awful Mets fielding gave
Providence eleven or twelve runs (scorers lost count), while Radbourn held the
New Yorkers to a pair of unearned tallies.
PRO (N)
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PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB
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Cliff Carroll, of .100 3 10 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
Jerry Denny, 3b .444 3 9 3 4 0 1 1 2 0 3 0
Jack Farrell, 2b .444 3 9 3 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Barney Gilligan, c .444 3 9 3 4 2 0 0 2 0 1 0
Paul Hines, of .250 3 8 5 2 0 0 0 1 3 0 2
Arthur Irwin, ss .222 3 9 3 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 0
Charlie Radbourn, p .100 3 10 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 3 0
Paul Radford, of .000 3 7 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Joe Start, 1b .100 3 10 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
TOTAL .235 81 21 19 4 2 1 12 5 13 3
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PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO
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Charlie Radbourn 3 0 0.00 3 3 3 0 1 22.0 11 0 0 17
TOTAL 3 0 0.00 3 3 3 0 1 22.0 11 0 0 17
NY (A)
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PLAYER/POS AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RB BB SO SB
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Buck Becannon, p .500 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steve Brady, of .000 3 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Dude Esterbrook, 3b .300 3 10 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
Tom Forster, 2b .000 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Bill Holbert, c .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Tim Keefe, p .200 2 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
Ed Kennedy, of .000 3 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Candy Nelson, ss .100 3 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Dave Orr, 1b .111 3 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Charlie Reipschlager, c .000 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Chief Roseman, of .333 3 9 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Dasher Troy, 2b .200 2 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
TOTAL .143 77 3 11 1 0 0 2 0 16 1
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PITCHER W L ERA G GS CG SV SHO IP H ER BB SO
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Buck Becannon 0 1 10.50 1 1 1 0 0 6.0 9 7 2 1
Tim Keefe 0 2 3.60 2 2 2 0 0 15.0 10 6 3 12
TOTAL 0 3 5.57 3 3 3 0 0 21.0 19 13 5 13
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