Little Rock Rosebuds (1895)
The Little Rock Rosebuds were a professional baseball club in the 1895 Southern Association.Nickname
It's not clear whether Little Rock had an official nickname in 1895, but if so, it was likely the "Rosebuds". Traditionally, the team's nickname has been recorded as the Little Rock "Travelers", a nickname of a future Little Rock baseball franchise. However, the Arkansas Gazette, a newspaper that reported on the club routinely in 1895, never referred to Little Rock in 1895 as the Travelers, instead calling the team the "Rosebuds". The nickname likely originated from the city of Little Rock's motto, "The City of Roses."
History
The team played at West End Park.
Little Rock dropped out of the league in midseason with a losing record.
Record
Year | League | Wins | Losses | % | Manager | President | Ballpark |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1895 | Southern | 25 | 47 | .347 | Frank Thyne / Richard Gorman | Williams Kavanaugh / H.C. Bateman | West End Park |
Schedule/Results
Exhibitions:
Date | Location | Opponent | Result |
West End Park | Cleveland Spiders | L, 0-3 | |
3/21/1895 | West End Park | Cleveland Spiders | L, 2-6 |
3/22/1895 | West End Park | Cleveland Spiders | L, 0-15 |
3/23/1895 | West End Park | Cleveland Spiders | L, 6-7 |
3/23/1895 | West End Park | Cleveland Spiders | T, 6-6 |
Date | Location | Opponent | W-L | R | RA | Record |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4/26 | Little Rock | Memphis | W | 6 | 5 | 1-0 |
4/27 | Little Rock | Memphis | L | 6 | 8 | 1-1 |
4/29 | @Memphis | Memphis | L | 9 | 22 | 1-2 |
4/30 | @Memphis | Memphis | W | 5 | 4 | 2-2 |
5/1 | @Memphis | Memphis | L | 2 | 7 | 2-3 |
5/3 | @Montgomery | Montgomery | W | 7 | 4 | 3-3 |
5/4 | @Montgomery | Montgomery | L | 7 | 12 | 3-4 |
5/6 | @Montgomery | Montgomery | W | 14 | 5 | 4-4 |
5/8 | @New Orleans | New Orleans | W | 4 | 3 | 5-4 |
5/9 | @New Orleans | New Orleans | L | 5 | 8 | 5-5 |
5/11 | Little Rock | New Orleans | W | 9 | 1 | 6-5 |
Players
Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Shorty Berthold | |||
Buttons Briggs | 7/8/1875 in Poughkeepsie, NY | ||
Jack Corcoran | 5/15/1958 in Lowell, MA | ||
Thomas Joseph "Pike" Crinnion | 3/6/18681 in St. Louis, MO2 | 7/19/1943 in St. Louis, MO2 | |
Edward J. Cull | Lowell, MA | 4/11/19093 | |
George Dolan | Lowell, MA4 | 9/29/18994 | |
Jack Fifield | 10/5/1871 in Enfield, NH | ||
Gates | Appears he filled in for Little Rock at 1st after Wiley was injured and before Knoll was signed. Maybe from Evansville. | ||
Richard Leslie Gorman | 7/6/1866 in Foxboro, MA5 | ||
Michael Hobright | From the Steubenville, OH / Wheeling, WV area. | ||
Julius Knoll | 9/10/1875 in Evansville, IN | ||
Alex McFarlan | 10/11/1869 in St. Louis, MO | ||
Moran | |||
Charles Morse | Auburn, ME | ||
John J. Nichols/Nicholas6 | |||
George Nie | |||
Biff Sheehan | 2/13/1868 in Hartford, CT | ||
Sulze | |||
Earl A. M. Sumner | 1/22/19827 in Boston, MA8 | 7/8/19187 | |
John B. Wiley9 | 12/10/187210 or 12/15/1872 in Cambridge, Mass11 | 5/10/1938 in Laconia, NH12 | Also a well-known professional roller polo players |
Stats
Compiled from the 1896 Victor Baseball Guide:
Player | G | AB | R | H | Avg. | SH | SB | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sheehan | 59 | 242 | 54 | 82 | .338 | 6 | 1 | Also with New Orleans |
Wiley | 52 | 214 | 42 | 71 | .331 | 2 | 15 | |
Nie | 46 | 173 | 30 | 55 | .317 | 2 | 10 | |
Summer | 26 | 105 | 14 | 33 | .314 | 1 | 21 | |
Gorman | 66 | 290 | 51 | 90 | .310 | 8 | 8 | Also with Nashville |
Cull | 46 | 184 | 36 | 55 | .298 | 7 | 7 | |
Sulze | 28 | 104 | 10 | 31 | .298 | 3 | 4 | |
Hobright | 56 | 232 | 33 | 66 | .284 | 6 | 22 | |
Corcoran | 25 | 101 | 17 | 28 | .277 | 3 | 5 | |
Dolan | 56 | 236 | 33 | 60 | .254 | 4 | 7 | |
Knoll | 49 | 198 | 38 | 48 | .242 | 3 | 10 | |
Fifield | 43 | 156 | 17 | 37 | .237 | 3 | 3 | |
Briggs | 31 | 94 | 14 | 22 | .234 | 0 | 2 | |
Morse | 20 | 78 | 7 | 18 | .230 | 2 | 0 | |
Crinnion | 13 | 44 | 3 | 10 | .227 | 2 | 1 | |
McFarland | 32 | 127 | 10 | 24 | .187 | 3 | 6 | Also with Memphis |
Player | G | W | R | ER | BF | H | Avg. | BB | WP | HBP | K | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Morse | 7 | 8 | 118 | 38 | 611 | 178 | .291 | 63 | 7 | 5 | 53 | G should probably be 17 |
Briggs | 21 | 8 | 176 | 64 | 711 | 215 | .302 | 101 | 19 | 15 | 90 | |
McFarland | 31 | 22 | 195 | 90 | 1060 | 328 | .309 | 87 | 4 | 13 | 74 | Also with Memphis |
Fifield | 22 | 7 | 164 | 81 | 686 | 238 | .346 | 74 | 12 | 11 | 62 |
2. The Sporting News, 7/29/1943
4. Sporting Life, 10/14/1899
5. Massachusetts Birth Records, Ancestry.com
10. Wiley's 1938 New Hampshire Death and Disinterment Record at Ancestry.com
11. Massachusetts Birth Records on Ancestry.com
12. Fitchburg Sentinel, 11/5/1938