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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 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 ]
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 American Association of Base Ball Clubs (AA) was a professional baseball league that existed for 10 seasons from 1882 to 1891.Together with the National League (NL), founded in 1876, the AA participated in an early version of the World Series [a] seven times versus the champion of the NL in an interleague championship playoff tournament.
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]
1886 AA season changes: New York Metropolitans move from the Polo Grounds to St. George Cricket Grounds This page was last ...