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The Boston club was initially known as the "Red Stockings," because four of its key players had come from the famous 1869–1870 barnstorming team known as the Cincinnati Red Stockings and took the nickname with them to Boston. Over time the team acquired other informal nicknames, such as "Beaneaters," "Red Caps," "Rustlers" and "Doves."
The 1897 Boston Beaneaters season was the 27th season of the franchise. The Beaneaters won the National League pennant, their fourth of the decade and their seventh overall. After the season, the Beaneaters played in the Temple Cup for the first time. They lost the series to the second-place Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1.
Newspaper sketch of interior, 1890. Congress Street Grounds is a former baseball ground located in Boston, Massachusetts.The ballpark, as the name implies, was along Congress Street, near the intersection of Thompson Place, and not far from the Fort Point Channel on South Boston Flats, a newly filled in piece of land on Boston Harbor. [2]
Boston Beaneaters Cleveland Spiders. The 1892 World Series followed the first split season in National League history, with the first-half champion Boston Beaneaters (102–48) playing the second-half champion Cleveland Spiders (93–56) in a best-of-nine postseason series to determine the overall champion of the 1892 baseball season.
The Beaneaters won their second straight National League pennant and their eighth overall. It was also their fifth, and last, of the decade. It was also their fifth, and last, of the decade. This team has been cited (along with the 1880s St. Louis Browns and the 1890s Baltimore Orioles ) as one of the greatest of the 19th century.
1884 Boston Beaneaters season; ... American Peace Society; ... Boston Society of Natural History; Boston Street Scene (Boston Common)
The 1893 Boston Beaneaters season was the 23rd season of the franchise. They won their third straight and sixth overall National League pennant. Regular season
Boston Beaneaters: 76: 57 .571 12 43–23 33–34 New York Giants: 63: 68 .481 24 37–27 26–41 Cleveland Spiders: 44: 88 .333 43½ 30–37 14–51 Pittsburgh Alleghenys: 23: 113 .169 66½ 14–25 9–88