1888 Cleveland Blues season

The 1888 Cleveland Blues baseball team finished with a 50–82 record, sixth place in the American Association.

1888 Cleveland Blues
League	American Association
Ballpark	National League Park
City	Cleveland, Ohio
Owner	Frank Robison
Managers	Jimmy Williams, Tom Loftus

Regular season

1888 Cleveland Blues

Season standings

American Association

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
St. Louis Browns	92	43	.681	—	60‍–‍21	32‍–‍22
Brooklyn Bridegrooms	88	52	.629	6½	53‍–‍20	35‍–‍32
Philadelphia Athletics	81	52	.609	10	55‍–‍20	26‍–‍32
Cincinnati Red Stockings	80	54	.597	11½	56‍–‍25	24‍–‍29
Baltimore Orioles	57	80	.416	36	30‍–‍26	27‍–‍54
Cleveland Blues	50	82	.379	40½	33‍–‍27	17‍–‍55
Louisville Colonels	48	87	.356	44	27‍–‍29	21‍–‍58
Kansas City Cowboys	43	89	.326	47½	23‍–‍34	20‍–‍55

Record vs. opponents

1888 American Association record Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team	BAL	BR	CIN	CLE	KC	LOU	PHI	STL
Baltimore	—	8–12	6–14	10–9	11–8	11–9	5–14	6–14
Brooklyn	12–8	—	14–6–1	16–4	11–9	13–7	12–8–1	10–10–1
Cincinnati	14–6	6–14–1	—	10–7–1	15–4	17–3–1	10–10	8–10
Cleveland	9–10	4–16	7–10–1	—	10–9	9–8–2	7–13	4–16
Kansas City	8–11	9–11	4–15	9–10	—	6–12	3–14	4–16
Louisville	9–11	7–13	3–17–1	8–9–2	12–6	—	5–15–1	4–16
Philadelphia	14–5	8–12–1	10–10	13–7	14–3	15–5–1	—	7–10–1
St. Louis	14–6	10–10–1	10–8	16–4	16–4	16–4	10–7–1	—

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	Pop Snyder	64	237	51	.215	0	14
1B	Jay Faatz	120	470	124	.264	0	51
2B	Cub Stricker	127	493	115	.233	1	33
SS	Ed McKean	131	548	164	.299	6	68
3B	John McGlone	55	203	37	.182	1	22
OF	Pete Hotaling	98	403	101	.251	0	55
OF	Bob Gilks	119	484	111	.229	1	63
OF	Mortimer Hogan	78	269	61	.227	0	24

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
Gus Alberts	102	364	75	.206	1	48
Mike Goodfellow	68	269	66	.245	0	29
Chief Zimmer	65	212	51	.241	0	22
Deacon McGuire	26	94	24	.255	1	13
Bill McClellan	22	72	16	.222	0	5
Dick Van Zant	10	31	8	.258	0	1

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
Jersey Bakley	61	532.2	25	33	2.97	212
Cinders O'Brien	30	259.0	11	19	3.30	135
Billy Crowell	18	150.2	5	13	5.79	61
George Proeser	7	59.0	3	4	3.81	20
Ed Keas	6	51.0	3	3	2.29	18
Mike Morrison	4	35.0	1	3	5.40	14
Doc Oberlander	3	25.2	1	2	5.26	23
Bill Stemmyer	2	16.0	0	2	9.00	7
Ed Knouff	2	9.0	0	1	1.00	2

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
Bob Gilks	4	21.0	0	2	8.14	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
Cub Stricker	2	1	0	0	4.50	5

References

• "1888 Cleveland Blues Statistics". Baseball Reference. Sports Reference LLC. 2018. Retrieved March 16, 2018.