Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
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Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889
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Earl also acted as change catcher. The All America team included players
from the League clubs of New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Pittsburg and
Indianapolis, and from the American Association clubs of Cincinnati and
Kansas City. Mr. Spalding stood at the head of the tourist party, with Mr.
Leigh S. Lynch as his business manager, and H. H. Simpson as assistant,
Mr. J. K. Tener being the treasurer and cashier.
The record of the games played by the two teams with outside clubs en
route to San Francisco and in California is as follows:
DATE. |CLUBS. |CITIES. |PITCHERS. |SCORE.
-------+--------------------+-------------+---------------+-------
Oct. 21|St. Paul vs. Chicago|St. Paul |Duryea, Tener | 8-5
Nov. 6|Haverly vs. America |San Francisco|Anderson, Crane| 12-5
" 8|Chicago vs. Stockton|Stockton |Tener, Harper | 2-2
" 8|Pioneer vs. America |San Francisco|Purcell, Healy | 9-4
" 9|America vs. Stockton|Stockton |Crane, Baker | 16-1
" 10|Chicago vs. Haverly |San Francisco|Baldwin Inal | 6-1
While en route to Australia the tourists stopped at Honolulu, where they
were given a public reception, by King Kalakaua, but their first game
played after they had left California was at Auckland, where they first
realized what a cordial reception the Australians had prepared for them.
On their arrival at Sydney, and afterward at Melbourne, the hearty welcome
accorded them, not only as ball players but as representatives of the
great Western Republic, was such as to surpass all their anticipations,
the heartiness of the greeting, the boundless hospitality and the crowded
attendance at their games imparting to their visit a brilliancy of success
which fully remunerated Mr. Spalding for all the pecuniary risks he had
incurred by the trip. It was originally intended to have made the tour of
the colonies a more extended one than was afterward found possible, and so
the sojourn of the players on the Australian continent ended sooner than
anticipated, only four cities being visited, instead of eight or ten, as
laid out. The record of the games played in Australia is as follows:
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