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Cincinnati Red Stockings, New York Metropolitans, and Pittsburgh Alleghenys move from Bank Street Grounds, Polo Grounds, and Exposition Park to American Park, Metropolitan Park, and Recreation Park. New York Metropolitans would move back to Polo Grounds later in second half of season.
The 1884 New York Metropolitans finished with a 75–32 record, first place in the American Association. After the season, they played the National League champion Providence Grays in the 1884 World Series and lost three games to zero.
The fourth team eliminated from the AA, the Richmond Virginians, returned to the minor leagues. New York Metropolitans, having previous played a majority of 1884 in Metropolitan Park, had moved back to the to the Polo Grounds in August 1884, and remain there for the 1885 season.
The 1882 New York Metropolitans. The Metropolitan Club [1] (New York Metropolitans or the Mets) was a 19th-century professional baseball team that played in New York City from 1880 to 1887. (The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club was the name chosen in 1961 for the New York Mets, who began play in 1962.) [2]
1883 AA season changes: Columbus Buckeyes are enfranchised. New York Metropolitans join the AA from the minor league. St. Louis Brown Stockings rename as the St. Louis Browns. Baltimore Orioles and Philadelphia Athletics move from Newington Park and Oakdale Park to Oriole Park and Jefferson Street Grounds, respectively.
At the end of the season, Providence officials accepted New York Metropolitans (AA) manager Jim Mutrie's challenge to a three-game postseason match, which became known as the first World Series. All of the games took place at the Polo Grounds in New York and were played under American Association rules, which forbade overhand pitching. [8]
In baseball, the 1884 World Series was a post-season championship series between the Providence Grays of the National League and the New York Metropolitans of the American Association at the Polo Grounds in New York City. While the 1884 post-season championship series was the first such to be referred to as the "World's Championship Series," or ...
The ground was the part-time home to the New York Metropolitans of the American Association in 1884. The wooden ballpark was built a few blocks east and south from their first home, the original Polo Grounds , on a piece of land bounded by 109th Street (north), the Harlem River (east), 107th Street (south), and First Avenue (west).