Hot Springs Blues (1887)
The Hot Springs Blues were a professional baseball team based in Hot Springs, AR in the 1887 Southwestern League.History
Record
Players
Player | Birth | Death | Notes |
Shell Black | "of Memphis." Brother of Bob Black1 | ||
Burke | Hot Springs resident. | ||
Charles Bradley2 | "of New Orleans" | ||
Conway | 3 | ||
E.S. "Steve" Conway | "Late of St. Joe." "a Cincinnati boy"4 | ||
Gus Creely | 6/6/1870 in St. Louis, MO | 4/22/1934 in St. Louis, MO | |
Frank Hoffman | Houston, TX | "Secured from the Southern League," "Of New Orleans" | |
Kelly | Hot Springs resident. Maybe Mat.5 | ||
Lang | "late of the defunct Mobiles" | ||
David Mitchell | "Of St. Louis"6 | ||
Payne | Hot Springs resident | ||
Emmett Rogers | |||
Frank Weikart | 1865 in St. Louis, MO7 | 7/17/1933 in Montgomery, AL | |
Welch | "of Memphis"6 |
1. The Sporting News, 6/25/1887 p.6
2. The Sporting News, 6/25/1887, p.5
3. There were two Conways in the league, one appearing for both Pine Bluff and Hot Springs in a box score in The Sporting News, 6/25/1887, p.5. One of the two was Steve Conway, but it is unclear which.
4. The Sporting News, 5/21/1887, p.5
5. The Sporting News, 3/26/1887, p.1
6. The Sporting News, 6/4/1887, p.2
7. Alabama, Deaths and Burials Index at Ancestry.com
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