1875 New Haven Elm Citys season

1875 New Haven Elm Citys
League	National Association of Professional Base Ball Players
Ballpark	Hamilton Park
City	New Haven, Connecticut
Managers	Charlie Gould, Juice Latham, Charlie Pabor

The New Haven Elm Citys played in their first and only season in 1875 as a member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. They finished eighth in the league with a record of 7-40. The team and league folded at the conclusion of the season.

Regular season

Season standings

National Association	W	L	T	GB	Pct.
Boston Red Stockings	71	8	3	–	.884
Philadelphia Athletics	53	20	4	15.0	.714
Hartford Dark Blues	54	28	3	18.5	.659
St. Louis Brown Stockings	39	29	2	26.5	.571
Philadelphia White Stockings	37	31	2	28.5	.542
Chicago White Stockings	30	37	2	35.0	.449
New York Mutuals	30	38	3	35.5	.443
New Haven Elm Citys	7	40	–	48.0	.149
Washington Nationals	5	23	–	40.5	.179
St. Louis Red Stockings	4	15	–	37.0	.211
Philadelphia Centennials	2	12	–	36.5	.143
Brooklyn Atlantics	2	42	–	51.5	.045
Keokuk Westerns	1	12	–	37.0	.077

Record vs. opponents

1875 National Association Records v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
Team	BOS	BR	CHI	HAR	KEO	NH	NY	PHA	PHC	PWS	SLB	SLR	WSH
Boston	—	6–0	8–2	9–1	1–0	5–1	10–0	8–2–2	4–0	6–0–1	7–2	1–0	6–0
Brooklyn	0–6	—	0–2	0–10	0–0	2–1	0–7	0–7	0–0	0–7	0–2	0–0	0–0
Chicago	2–8	2–0	—	4–6–1	4–0	2–1	3–3	1–7–1	0–0	3–7	5–5	4–0	0–0
Hartford	1–9	10–0	6–4–1	—	0–0	8–1	8–2–2	4–3–1	1–0	4–4	5–5	3–0	4–0
Keokuk	0–1	0–0	0–4	0–0	—	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	1–2	0–0
New Haven	1–5	1–2	1–2	1–8	0–0	—	1–5	0–7	0–1	0–4	1–2	0–0	1–4
New York	0–10	7–0	3–3	2–8–2	1–0	5–1	—	3–6	2–0	5–2	0–8–1	2–0	0–0
Philadelphia Athletics	2–8–2	7–0	7–1–1	3–4–1	0–0	7–0	6–3	—	2–1	8–2	6–1	0–0	5–0
Philadelphia Centennials	0–4	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	—	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Philadelphia White Stockings	0–6–1	7–0	7–3	4–4	0–0	4–0	2–5	2–8	3–0	—	5–5–1	1–0	2–0
St. Louis Brown Stockings	2–7	2–0	5–5	5–5	4–0	2–1	8–0–1	1–6	0–0	5–5–1	—	2–0	3–0
St. Louis Red Stockings	0–1	0–0	0–4	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	—	2–1
Washington	0–6	0–0	0–0	0–4	0–0	4–1	0–0	0–5	0–0	0–2	0–3	1–2	—

Roster

1875 New Haven Elm Citys
Roster
Pitchers George Knight Tricky Nichols Catchers Studs Bancker Rit Harrison Jim Keenan Tim McGinley		Infielders Tom Barlow Booth John Cassidy Billy Geer Fred Goldsmith Charlie Gould Juice Latham Henry Luff John Smith Ed Somerville George Trenwith Sam Wright		Outfielders Lester Dole Evans John McKelvey Charlie Pabor Johnny Ryan Sullivan Jim Tipper		Managers Charlie Gould Juice Latham Charlie Pabor

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Tim McGinley	32	131	36	.275	0	10
Charlie Gould	27	109	29	.266	0	8
Ed Somerville	33	136	29	.213	0	7
Sam Wright	33	127	24	.189	0	5
Harry Luff	38	166	45	.271	2	18
Johnny Ryan	37	146	23	.158	0	8
John McKelvey	43	188	43	.229	0	10
Jim Tipper	41	159	25	.157	0	4
Billy Geer	37	164	40	.244	0	9
Jumbo Latham	20	76	15	.197	0	5
Studs Bancker	19	72	11	.153	0	2
George Trenwith	6	25	6	.240	0	3
Charlie Pabor	6	23	8	.348	0	2
John Cassidy	6	22	3	.136	0	1
Jim Keenan	5	13	1	.077	0	0
Sullivan	2	8	3	.375	0	2
Tom Barlow	1	5	1	.200	0	0
Lester Dole	1	4	2	.500	0	0
John Smith	1	3	0	.000	0	0
Fred Goldsmith	1	4	2	.500	0	1
Rit Harrison	1	4	2	.500	0	1
Evans	1	4	2	.500	0	1
Booth	1	2	0	.000	0	0

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched, IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Tricky Nichols	34	288.0	4	29	2.38	48
Harry Luff	10	68.2	1	6	3.28	5
Johnny Ryan	10	59.1	1	5	3.19	1
George Knight	1	9.0	1	0	3.00	0

References

• 1875 New Haven Elm Citys season at Baseball Reference