St. Louis Brown Stockings

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St. Louis Brown Stockings
Founded: 1875
Folded: 1877
League: National League
Stadium:

Grand Avenue Park, (1875–1877)
Championships: None

The St. Louis Brown Stockings were a professional baseball club based in St. Louis, Missouri from 1875 to 1877.

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[edit] History

Joining the National Association (NA) in the final season of that league, the Brown Stockings were the first team to represent St. Louis in a professional baseball association (Spink 1911). The original Brown Stockings, or Browns (different from the St. Louis Browns or future Orioles), were a charter member of the National League in 1876 and completed the first two NL seasons.

Like the White Stockings in Chicago (est. 1870), the Brown Stockings in St. Louis (est. 1875) adopted uniforms and acquired a nickname by descent with variation from the famous Red Stockings of Cincinnati (est. 1869), the first professional baseball team, which garnered much public interest due to an undefeated streak during a barnstorming tour in 1869-1870.

The Brown Stockings played their games at Grand Avenue Grounds, which later would be the site of Sportsman's Park. Brown Stocking George Bradley pitched the very first no-hitter in major league history, on July 15, 1876.

The Brown Stockings slipped to 28-32 in 1877 after going 45-19 and finishing third in 1876. The team signed stars Jim Devlin and George Hall from the Louisville Grays, only to become embroiled in a game-fixing scandal that resulted in the permanent expulsion of Devlin and Hall (and two other Grays players) from the league. The Grays and Brown Stockings both filed for bankruptcy in the aftermath of the scandal. However, the Brown Stockings continued to play as an independent barnstorming team on a semi-professional basis from 1878-1881. Prior to the 1882 season, Chris Von der Ahe purchased the troubled team and placed them in the new American Association . The new Brown Stockings, whose name Von der Ahe soon shortened to Browns, survive today as the National League St. Louis Cardinals.

[edit] Notable alumni

Lip Pike
  • Lip Pike, major league baseball 4x home run champion

[edit] See also

[edit] References and external links

  • Team index page at Baseball Reference
  • Cash, Jon David. Before They Were Cardinals: Major-League Baseball in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis. 2002, U. of Missouri Press, 320 p.
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Relocated Teams
Milwaukee Brewers (I) (1902) • Baltimore Orioles (II) (1903) • Boston Braves (1953) • St. Louis Browns (1954) • Philadelphia Athletics (1955) • New York Giants (1958) • Brooklyn Dodgers (1958) • Washington Senators (II) (1961) • Milwaukee Braves (1966) • Kansas City Athletics (1968) • Seattle Pilots (1970) • Washington Senators (III) (1972) • Montreal Expos (2005)
Disestablished Teams
New York Mutuals (1876) • Athletic of Philadelphia (1876) • Hartford Dark Blues (1875–1876) • St. Louis Brown Stockings (1876–1877) • Louisville Grays (1876–1877) • Indianapolis Blues (1878) • Milwaukee Grays (1878) • Syracuse Stars (1878) • Cincinnati Red Stockings (1876–1880) • Worcester Worcesters (1880–1882) • Providence Grays (1878–1885) • Buffalo Bisons (1879–1885) • Cleveland Blues (1879–1884) • Troy Trojans (1879–1885) • St. Louis Maroons (1885–1886) • Kansas City Cowboys (1886) • Detroit Wolverines (1881–1888) • Indianapolis Hoosiers (1887–1889) • Washington Nationals (I) (1886–1889) • Cleveland Spiders (1887–1899) • Baltimore Orioles (I) (1892–1899) • Louisville Colonels (1892–1899) • Washington Senators (I) (1891–1899)


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