1890 Cleveland Infants season

1890 Cleveland Infants
League	Players' League
Ballpark	Brotherhood Park
City	Cleveland, Ohio
Owner	Al Johnson
Manager	Henry Larkin, Patsy Tebeau

The 1890 Cleveland Infants baseball team was a member of the short-lived Players' League. They compiled a 55–75 record, finishing in seventh place. After the season, both the Infants and the league folded.

Regular season

Season standings

Players' League

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Boston Reds	81	48	.628	—	48‍–‍21	33‍–‍27
Brooklyn Ward's Wonders	76	56	.576	6½	46‍–‍19	30‍–‍37
New York Giants	74	57	.565	8	47‍–‍19	27‍–‍38
Chicago Pirates	75	62	.547	10	46‍–‍23	29‍–‍39
Philadelphia Athletics	68	63	.519	14	35‍–‍30	33‍–‍33
Pittsburgh Burghers	60	68	.469	20½	37‍–‍28	23‍–‍40
Cleveland Infants	55	75	.423	26½	31‍–‍30	24‍–‍45
Buffalo Bisons	36	96	.273	46½	23‍–‍42	13‍–‍54

Record vs. opponents

1890 Players' League record Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team	BOS	BR	BUF	CHI	CLE	NY	PHI	PIT
Boston	—	11–7	14–6–1	12–8	12–8	12–8	10–6	10–5
Brooklyn	7–11	—	12–6–1	10–9	12–8	7–10	14–6	14–6
Buffalo	6–14–1	6–12–1	—	5–15	7–9	3–17	4–16	5–13
Chicago	8–12	9–10	15–5	—	13–7	9–9–1	10–10	11–9
Cleveland	8–12	8–12	9–7	7–13	—	8–11	8–11–1	7–9
New York	8–12	10–7	17–3	9–9–1	11–8	—	5–12	14–6
Philadelphia	6–10	6–14	16–4	10–10	11–8–1	12–5	—	7–12
Pittsburgh	5–10	6–14	13–5	9–11	9–7	6–14	12–7	—

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
C	Sy Sutcliffe	99	386	127	.329	2	60
1B	Henry Larkin	125	506	167	.330	5	112
2B	Cub Stricker	127	544	133	.244	2	65
SS	Ed Delahanty	115	517	153	.296	3	64
3B	Patsy Tebeau	110	450	134	.298	5	74
OF	Jimmy McAleer	86	341	91	.267	1	42
OF	Paul Radford	122	466	136	.292	2	62
OF	Pete Browning	118	493	184	.373	5	93

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
Jack Brennan	59	233	59	.253	0	26
Larry Twitchell	56	233	52	.223	2	36
Jack Carney	25	89	31	.348	0	21
Pop Snyder	13	48	9	.188	0	12
Neil Stynes	2	8	0	.000	0	0
Jay Budd	1	4	0	.000	0	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
Henry Gruber	48	383.1	22	23	4.27	110
Jersey Bakely	43	326.1	12	25	4.47	67
Cinders O'Brien	25	206.1	8	16	3.40	54
Willie McGill	24	183.2	11	9	4.12	82
Charlie Dewald	2	14.0	2	0	0.64	6
Bill Gleason	1	4.0	0	1	27.00	0

Other 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
George Hemming	3	21.0	0	1	6.86	3

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
Paul Radford	1	0	0	0	3.60	3

References

• 1890 Cleveland Infants team page at Baseball Reference