1891 Washington Statesmen season

The 1891 Washington Statesmen baseball team finished the season with a 44–91 record in the American Association in their first season. After the season, the AA disbanded and the Washington club, renamed the "Senators," joined the National League.

1891 Washington Statesmen
League	American Association
Ballpark	Boundary Field
City	Washington D.C.
Managers	Sam Trott, Pop Snyder, Dan Shannon, Sandy Griffin

Regular season

Season standings

American Association

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Boston Reds	93	42	.689	—	51‍–‍17	42‍–‍25
St. Louis Browns	85	51	.625	8½	52‍–‍21	33‍–‍30
Baltimore Orioles	71	64	.526	22	44‍–‍24	27‍–‍40
Philadelphia Athletics	73	66	.525	22	43‍–‍26	30‍–‍40
Milwaukee Brewers	21	15	.583	22½	16‍–‍5	5‍–‍10
Cincinnati Kelly's Killers	43	57	.430	32½	24‍–‍21	19‍–‍36
Columbus Solons	61	76	.445	33	33‍–‍29	28‍–‍47
Louisville Colonels	54	83	.394	40	39‍–‍32	15‍–‍51
Washington Statesmen	44	91	.326	49	28‍–‍40	16‍–‍51

Record vs. opponents

1891 American Association record Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Team	BAL	BOS	CIN	COL	LOU	MIL	PHI	STL	WSH
Baltimore	—	8–12–1	7–5	12–7	14–6	3–3	9–10–2	7–12–1	11–9
Boston	12–8–1	—	8–5	15–5	14–3–2	5–2	13–7–1	8–10	18–2
Cincinnati	5–7	5–8	—	8–7	7–9	0–0	4–8	5–14–1	9–4–1
Columbus	7–12	5–15	7–8	—	12–8	0–5	9–11	9–11	12–6–1
Louisville	6–14	3–14–2	9–7	8–12	—	1–3	8–12	9–11	10–10
Milwaukee	3–3	2–5	0–0	5–0	3–1	—	3–5	1–0	4–1
Philadelphia	10–9–2	7–13–1	8–4	11–9	12–8	5–3	—	10–10	10–10–1
St. Louis	12–7–1	10–8	14–5–1	11–9	11–9	0–1	10–10	—	17–2–1
Washington	9–11	2–18	4–9–1	6–12–1	10–10	1–4	10–10–1	2–17–1	—

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	Deacon McGuire	114	413	125	.303	3	66
1B	Mox McQuery	68	261	63	.241	2	37
2B	Tommy Dowd	112	464	120	.259	1	44
SS	Gil Hatfield	134	500	128	.256	1	48
3B	Billy Alvord	81	312	73	.234	0	30
OF	Paul Hines	54	206	58	.282	0	31
OF	Ed Beecher	58	235	57	.243	2	28
OF	Larry Murphy	101	400	106	.265	1	35

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
Al McCauley	59	206	58	.282	1	31
Sy Sutcliffe	53	201	71	.353	2	33
Pete Lohman	32	109	21	.193	1	11
Jim Curtiss	29	103	26	.252	0	12
Pop Smith	27	90	16	.178	0	13
Jim Burns	20	82	26	.317	0	10
Ed Daily	21	79	18	.228	0	6
Patsy Donovan	17	70	14	.200	0	3
Sandy Griffin	20	69	19	.275	0	10
Joe Visner	18	68	19	.279	1	7
Dan Shannon	19	67	9	.134	0	3
Mike Slattery	15	60	17	.283	0	5
Jumbo Davis	12	44	14	.318	0	9
Tom McLaughlin	14	41	11	.268	0	3
Will Smalley	11	38	6	.158	0	3
Pop Snyder	8	27	5	.185	0	2
Fred Dunlap	8	25	5	.200	0	4
Tom Hart	8	24	3	.125	0	2
Miah Murray	2	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
Kid Carsey	54	413.0	14	37	4.99	174
Frank Foreman	43	345.1	18	20	3.73	170
Jersey Bakely	13	104.1	2	10	5.35	32
Ed Eiteljorge	8	61.1	1	5	6.16	23
Ed Cassian	7	53.0	2	4	5.60	14
Buck Freeman	5	44.0	3	2	3.89	28
Bob Miller	7	42.0	2	5	4.29	13
George Keefe	5	37.0	0	3	2.68	11
Martin Duke	4	23.0	0	3	7.43	5

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
Bill Quarles	3	22.0	1	1	8.18	10
Harry Mace	3	16.0	0	1	7.31	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
Gil Hatfield	4	0	0	0	11.00	3

References

• 1891 Washington Statesmen team page at Baseball Reference