1888 Kansas City Cowboys season

The 1888 Kansas City Cowboys baseball team finished with a 43–89 record, winding up in last place in the American Association during their debut season.

1888 Kansas City Cowboys
League	American Association
Ballpark	Exposition Park
City	Kansas City, Missouri
Managers	Dave Rowe, Sam Barkley, Bill Watkins

Regular season

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	—

Roster

1888 Kansas City Cowboys team photograph

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	Jim Donahue	88	337	79	.234	1	28
1B	Bill Phillips	129	509	120	.236	1	56
2B	Sam Barkley	116	482	104	.216	4	51
3B	Jumbo Davis	121	491	131	.267	3	61
SS	Henry Easterday	115	401	76	.190	3	37
OF	Myron Allen	37	136	29	.213	0	10
OF	Jim McTamany	130	516	127	.246	4	41
OF	Monk Cline	73	293	69	.235	0	19

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
Law Daniels	61	218	45	.206	2	28
Frank Hankinson	37	155	27	.174	1	20
Billy Hamilton	35	129	34	.264	0	11
Dave Rowe	32	122	21	.172	0	13
Jack Brennan	34	118	20	.169	0	6
Jim Burns	16	66	20	.303	0	4
Red Ehret	17	63	12	.190	0	4
Fatty Briody	13	48	10	.208	0	8
Charley Jones	6	25	4	.160	0	5
Charlie Hoover	3	10	3	.300	0	1
Ed Glenn	3	8	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 Porter	55	474.0	18	37	4.16	145
Tom Sullivan	24	214.2	8	16	3.40	84
Bill Fagan	17	142.1	5	11	5.69	49
Frank Hoffman	12	104.0	3	9	5.69	49
Steve Toole	12	91.2	5	6	6.68	35
Red Ehret	7	52.0	3	2	3.98	12
John Kirby	5	43.0	1	4	4.19	11
Myron Allen	2	18.0	0	2	2.50	2
Frank Hafner	2	18.0	0	2	7.00	5

References

• 1888 Kansas City Cowboys team page at Baseball Reference