1890 St. Louis Browns season

1890 St. Louis Browns
Ballpark	Sportsman's Park
City	St. Louis, Missouri
Record	78–58 (.574)
Owners	Chris von der Ahe
Managers	Tommy McCarthy (15–12) John Kerins (9–8) Chief Roseman (7–8) Count Campau (27–14) Joe Gerhardt (20–16)
Stats	ESPN.com BB-reference
Seasons

The 1890 St. Louis Browns season was the team's ninth season in St. Louis, Missouri and its ninth season in the American Association. The Browns went 78–58 during the season and finished third in the American Association.

Regular season

Season standings

American Association	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Louisville Colonels	88	44	0.667	—	57–13	31–31
Columbus Solons	79	55	0.590	10	47–22	32–33
St. Louis Browns	78	58	0.574	12	45–25	33–33
Toledo Maumees	68	64	0.515	20	40–27	28–37
Rochester Broncos	63	63	0.500	22	40–22	23–41
Baltimore Orioles	15	19	0.441	24	8–11	7–8
Syracuse Stars	55	72	0.433	30½	30–30	25–42
Philadelphia Athletics	54	78	0.409	34	36–36	18–42
Brooklyn Gladiators	26	73	0.263	45½	15–22	11–51

Record vs. opponents

1890 American Association record Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Team	BAL	BR	COL	LOU	PHI	ROC	STL	SYR	TOL
Baltimore	—	0–0	2–4–2	1–2–1	2–2	5–1	2–5	1–2	2–3–1
Brooklyn	0–0	—	5–9	2–13	2–10	3–10–1	4–10	5–12	5–9
Columbus	4–2–2	9–5	—	10–8–1	11–9	10–9–1	12–8–2	10–7	13–7
Louisville	2–1–1	13–2	8–10–1	—	17–3	11–6–2	9–11	14–5	14–6
Philadelphia	2–2	10–2	9–11	3–17	—	7–12	7–13	10–7	6–14
Rochester	1–5	10–3–1	9–10–1	6–11–2	12–7	—	8–12–1	11–4–1	6–11–1
St. Louis	5–2	10–4	8–12–2	11–9	13–7	12–8–1	—	10–9	9–7
Syracuse	2–1	12–5	7–10	5–14	7–10	4–11–1	9–10	—	9–11
Toledo	3–2–1	9–5	7–13	6–14	14–6	11–6–1	7–9	11–9	—

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	John Munyan	96	342	91	.266	4	42
OF	Count Campau	75	314	101	.322	9	75
OF	Tommy McCarthy	133	548	192	.350	6	69

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
Chief Roseman	80	302	103	.341	2	58
Joe Gerhardt	37	125	32	.256	1	11
Dusty Miller	26	96	21	.219	1	10
John Kerins	18	63	8	.127	0	3
Pat Hartnett	14	53	10	.189	0	4
Jim Donnelly	11	42	14	.333	0	13
Jerry Kane	8	25	5	.200	0	2
Joe Burke	2	6	4	.667	0	2
Jim Adams	1	4	1	.250	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
Toad Ramsey	44	348.2	23	17	3.69	257
Billy Hart	26	201.1	12	8	3.67	95
Joe Neale	10	69	5	3	3.39	23
Ice Box Chamberlain	5	35	3	1	5.91	14
George Nicol	3	17	2	1	4.76	16

References

• 1890 St. Louis Browns
• 1890 St. Louis Browns team page at www.baseball-almanac.com