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1897 display newspaper BOSTON Team WINS NATIONAL LEAGUE ML BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP For Sale

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1897 display newspaper BOSTON Team WINS NATIONAL LEAGUE ML BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP:
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1897 display newspaper BOSTON BEANEATERS baseball Team wins THE NATIONAL LEAGUE professional BASEBALL championship

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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theSan Jose Mercury (CA) dated Oct 3, 1897.This newspaper contains prominent front page \"stacked\" headlines and a 1/2 column report of the BOSTON BEANEATERS (later to be named the Boston Braves and even later to become theAtlanta Braves) winning the 1897 NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL CHAMPIONS.

Great display newspaper on the Boston baseball team winning the 1897 Major League baseball season championship

The 1897 Boston Beaneaters season was the 27th season of the franchise. The Beaneaters won the National League pennant, their fourth of the decade and their seventh overall. After the season, the Beaneaters played in the Temple Cup for the first time. They lost the series to the second-place Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 1. This team has been cited (along with the 1880s St. Louis Browns and the 1890s Baltimore Orioles) as one of the greatest of the 19th century. It featured five Hall of Famers: manager Frank Selee, pitcher Kid Nichols, third baseman Jimmy Collins, and outfielders Billy Hamilton and Hugh Duffy.

In just 132 games, the Beaneaters scored 1025 runs to lead the league (Hamilton had 152 of them to win individual honors). They also allowed the fewest, on the way to a .705 winning percentage. Nichols was one of the premier pitchers in the league, leading the NL with 31 wins. His 2.64 ERA ranked second.

The Cincinnati Red Stockings, established in 1869 as the first openly all-professional baseball team, voted to dissolve after the 1870 season. Player-manager Harry Wright then went to Boston, Massachusetts—at the invitation of Boston Red Stockings founder Ivers Whitney Adams—with brother George and two other Cincinnati players, to form the nucleus of the Boston Red Stockings, a charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The original Boston Red Stockings team and its successors can lay claim to being the oldest continuously playing team in American professional sports. (The only other team that has been organized as long, the Chicago Cubs, did not play for the two years following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.) Two young players hired away from the Forest City club of Rockford, Illinois, turned out to be the biggest stars during the NAPBBP years: pitcher Al Spalding (founder of Spalding sporting goods) and second baseman Ross Barnes.

The 1888 Boston Beaneaters team

Led by the Wright brothers, Barnes, and Spalding, the Red Stockings dominated the National Association, winning four of that league\'s five championships. The team became one of the National League\'s charter franchises in 1876, sometimes called the \"Red Caps\" (as a new Cincinnati Red Stockings club was another charter member). Boston came to be called the Beaneaters by sportswriters in 1883, while retaining red as the team color.

Although somewhat stripped of talent in the National League\'s inaugural year, Boston bounced back to win the 1877 and 1878 pennants. The Red Caps/Beaneaters were one of the league\'s dominant teams during the 19th century, winning a total of eight pennants. For most of that time, their manager was Frank Selee, the first manager not to double as a player as well. The 1898 team finished 102-47, a club record for wins that would stand for almost a century.

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