Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies

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The Chicago Browns/Pittsburgh Stogies (also known as Chicago/Pittsburgh) were a short-lived professional baseball team in the Union Association of 1884. The Chicago Browns disbanded after their game of August 22 and then moved to Pittsburgh and became the Stogies, which disbanded after their game of September 18, with many of the players joining the Baltimore Monumentals. Altogether, they won 41 games, lost 50 (including one forfeit), and tied 2, finishing sixth in the twelve-team league.

While in Chicago, they played their home games at the first South Side Park. After they moved to Pittsburgh, their home games were played at Exposition Park.

The entire league officially folded on January 15, 1885 after only one year of existence.

[edit] External links

• Baseball Reference
• Retrosheet
• Baseball Almanac
• Project Ballpark
• Pittsburgh Stogies partial roster at CNNSI

[edit] References

• Pietrusza, David (1991). The Formation, Sometimes Absorption and Mostly Inevitable Demise of 18 Professional Baseball Organizations, 1871 to Present. Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-89950-590-2. 
• Dewey, Donald & Acocella, Nicholas (1996). Ball Clubs. HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-7881-9981-1.