- Baltimore Monumentals
The Baltimore Monumentals were an American baseball team in the short-lived
Union Association . In their lone season of1884 , they finished fourth in the UA with a 58-47 record.History
The team was managed by Bill Henderson. Their top-hitting regular was
left fielder Emmett Seery , who batted .311 with aslugging percentage of .408, and their acepitcher was Bill Sweeney, who was 40-21 with anearned run average of 2.59, and pitched 538 of the team's 946 innings. The Monumentals were disbanded after theUnion Association folded at the end of the1884 season.Ballpark
The Monumentals' home ground was the
Belair Lot , which was sometimes known as the Union Association Grounds. On July 4, 1884, Baltimore played a split double header against theCincinnati Outlaw Reds and the run-away league leaders, theSt. Louis Maroons , which saw a sellout crowd in attendance. The field also hosted a home game for the traveling Chicago Browns team.The team did play one game on
August 25 ,1884 at the larger Madison Avenue Ground, in a win against the Washington Nationals. However, the playing field was deemed unfit to use and they returned to the Belair Lot.Team Nickname
Baltimore was the first city to erect a monument to George Washington. It is suspected that the team's name is recognition of that fact.
External links
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BLU/1884.shtml Baseball Reference Team Index]
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