- 1900 Brooklyn Superbas season
MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Brooklyn Superbas
season = 1900
misc = 1900 National League Champions
Chronicle-Telegraph Cup Champions
current league = National League
y1 = 1890
Uniform
ballpark = Washington Park
y4 = 1898
city =Brooklyn, New York
y5 = 1883
owners =Charles Ebbets ,Ferdinand Abell ,Harry Von der Horst , Ned Hanlon
managers = Ned Hanlon
television = none
radio = none|The 1900 Brooklyn Superbas captured their second consecutiveNational League championship by four and a half games.eason standings
1900 Roster
1900
Chronicle-Telegraph Cup Game 1
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October 15 , by|1900"Two future Hall of Famers faced off as NL ERA leader
Rube Waddell of the Pirates threw againstJoe McGinnity , who led the league with 28 wins. McGinnity shut out the Pirates for eight innings before twounearned run s in the top of the ninth denied him the shutout. Waddell gave up 13 hits but only five runs, despite four errors by his fielders.Game 4
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October 18 , by|1900"Joe McGinnity was shaky in the final game, allowing nine hits, but the Brooklyn defense returned to form (they had the second-fewest errors in the league) as it allowed only one run to score. McGinnity did not allow an earned run in his two
complete game wins during the series. Three Brooklyn singles coupled with a fielding error by Pittsburgh hurlerSam Leever in the fourth inning gave the Superbas a comfortable 4-0 cushion which they would not relinquish.1900 Transactions
*January: Purchased
Farmer Steelman from theLouisville Colonels
*March: SoldKit McKenna ,Pat Crisham andCandy LaChance to the Cleveland Blues
*March 10 : SoldBill Keister , John McGraw andWilbert Robinson to theSt. Louis Cardinals
*April: Sold Steve Brodie to theChicago White Sox
*May 15 : PurchasedLave Cross from theSt. Louis Cardinals External links
* [http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=nl_1900_brooklyn.gif&Entryid=1 1900 Brooklyn Superbas uniform]
* [http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/bdodgers/brooklyn.html Brooklyn Dodgers reference site]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1900.shtml Baseball-Reference season page]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1900&t=BR6 Baseball Almanac season page]
* [http://pressbox.mlb.com/pressbox/downloads/y2007/la/history_records.pdf Dodgers Media Guide History]
* [http://www.acmewebpages.com/dodgers/ Acme Dodgers page]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/ Retrosheet]
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