1892 Brooklyn Grooms season

1892 Brooklyn Grooms
LeagueNational League
BallparkEastern Park
CityBrooklyn, New York
Record
  • 1st half: 51–26 (.662)
  • 2nd half: 44–33 (.571)
  • Overall: 95–59 (.617)[1]
League place
  • 1st half: 2nd (2+1⁄2 GB)
  • 2nd half: 3rd (9+1⁄2 GB)
OwnersCharles Byrne, Ferdinand Abell, George Chauncey
PresidentCharles Byrne
ManagersJohn Montgomery Ward
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The 1892 Brooklyn Grooms season was a season in American baseball. The team finished the first half of the split season in second place, just 2.5 games behind the Boston Beaneaters. However, they faded in the second half, finishing 9.5 games behind the second-half champion Cleveland Spiders and missing out on the postseason playoff. Their combined record was 95–59, third best overall in the league.

The season was a tragic one, as outfielder Hub Collins left a game on May 14 because he was feeling ill. A week later he was dead, the victim of typhoid fever. The team put on a benefit game to raise money for his widow on May 29.[2] One bright spot, however, was first baseman Dan Brouthers, who won the batting title with a .335 batting average.[2]

  1. ^ "The 1892 Season". Retrosheet. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Dodgers timeline from MLB.com". Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2007.