1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers season

1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers
League	American Association
Ballpark	Seventh Street Park, Bruce Grounds
City	Indianapolis, Indiana
Managers	Jim Gifford, Bill Watkins

The 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers baseball team finished with a 29–78 record, 12th place in the American Association. This was the only season the team was in operation.

Regular season

Season standings

American Association

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
New York Metropolitans	75	32	.701	—	42‍–‍9	33‍–‍23
Columbus Buckeyes	69	39	.639	6½	38‍–‍16	31‍–‍23
Louisville Eclipse	68	40	.630	7½	41‍–‍14	27‍–‍26
St. Louis Browns	67	40	.626	8	38‍–‍16	29‍–‍24
Cincinnati Red Stockings	68	41	.624	8	40‍–‍16	28‍–‍25
Baltimore Orioles	63	43	.594	11½	42‍–‍13	21‍–‍30
Philadelphia Athletics	61	46	.570	14	38‍–‍16	23‍–‍30
Toledo Blue Stockings	46	58	.442	27½	28‍–‍25	18‍–‍33
Brooklyn Atlantics	40	64	.385	33½	23‍–‍26	17‍–‍38
Richmond Virginians	12	30	.286	30½	5‍–‍15	7‍–‍15
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	30	78	.278	45½	18‍–‍37	12‍–‍41
Indianapolis Hoosiers	29	78	.271	46	15‍–‍39	14‍–‍39
Washington Nationals	12	51	.190	41	10‍–‍20	2‍–‍31

Record vs. opponents

1884 American Association record Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
Team	BAL	BR	CIN	COL	IND	LOU	NY	PHI	PIT	RIC	STL	TOL	WSH
Baltimore	—	5–5	4–6	6–4	9–1	6–4–1	5–5	3–7	9–0	4–0	5–5	5–5–1	2–1
Brooklyn	5–5	—	2–8	3–7	7–3	3–6	1–9–1	3–6	4–6	3–2–1	2–7–1	4–4–2	3–1
Cincinnati	6–4	8–2	—	3–7	9–1–1	5–5	4–6–1	4–6	8–1–1	4–0	4–6	7–3	6–0
Columbus	4–6	7–3	7–3	—	8–2	5–5	4–5	5–5–1	9–1	2–2	5–5	8–1–1	5–1
Indianapolis	1–9	3–7	1–9–1	2–8	—	1–9	2–8	4–6	4–6	1–2–1	3–6–1	3–6	4–2
Louisville	4–6–1	6–3	5–5	5–5	9–1	—	3–7–1	6–3	8–2	4–1	5–5	9–1	4–1
New York	5–5	9–1–1	6–4–1	5–4	8–2	7–3–1	—	8–2	9–1	2–0	5–4–1	5–4–1	6–2
Philadelphia	7–3	6–3	6–4	5–5–1	6–4	3–6	2–8	—	8–2	2–0	3–7	6–3	7–1
Pittsburgh	0–9	6–4	1–8–1	1–9	6–4	2–8	1–9	2–8	—	1–4–1	1–9	5–5	4–1
Richmond	0–4	2–3–1	0–4	2–2	2–1–1	1–4	0–2	0–2	4–1–1	—	1–3	0–4–1	0–0
St. Louis	5–5	7–2–1	6–4	5–5	6–3–1	5–5	4–5–1	7–3	9–1	3–1	—	5–5	5–1
Toledo	5–5–1	4–4–2	3–7	1–8–1	6–3	1–9	4–5–1	3–6	5–5	4–0–1	5–5	—	5–1
Washington	1–2	1–3	0–6	1–5	2–4	1–4	2–6	1–7	1–4	0–0	1–5	1–5	—

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

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

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR
C	Jim Keenan	68	249	73	.293	3
1B	John Kerins	94	364	78	.214	6
2B	Ed Merrill	55	196	35	.179	0
SS	Marr Phillips	97	413	111	.269	0
3B	Pat Callaghan	61	258	67	.260	2
OF	John Peltz	106	393	86	.219	3
OF	Podge Weihe	63	256	65	.254	4
OF	Jon Morrison	44	182	48	.264	1

Other batters

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

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR
Jerry Dorgan	34	141	42	.298	0
Chub Collins	38	138	31	.225	0
Jim Donnelly	40	134	34	.254	0
Bill Watkins	35	127	26	.205	0
John Sneed	27	102	22	.216	1
Tug Thompson	24	97	20	.206	0
Charlie Robinson	20	80	23	.288	0
Al McCauley	17	53	10	.189	0
Gene Moriarty	10	37	8	.216	0
Bill Butler	9	31	7	.226	0
Marshall Locke	7	29	7	.241	0
Jim Tray	6	21	6	.286	0
Jim Holdsworth	5	18	2	.111	0
Bob Blakiston	6	18	4	.222	0
Harry Decker	4	15	4	.267	0
Marty Barrett	5	13	1	.077	0
Charlie Levis	3	10	2	.200	0
Charlie Reising	2	8	0	.000	0
Harry Weber	3	8	0	.000	0
Frank Monroe	2	8	0	.000	0
George Mundinger	3	8	2	.250	0
Pete Fries	1	3	1	.333	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Larry McKeon	61	512.0	18	41	3.50	308
Bob Barr	16	132.0	3	11	4.98	69
Jake Aydelott	12	106.0	5	7	4.92	30
Al McCauley	10	76.0	2	7	5.09	34
Mac MacArthur	6	52.0	1	5	5.02	19
Tommy Bond	5	43.0	0	5	5.65	15
Gene Moriarty	2	13.2	0	2	5.27	4

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Jim Keenan	1	0	0	0	3.00	0

References

• 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers team page at Baseball Reference