The St. Louis Maroons were a professional baseball club based in St. Louis, Missouri from 1884-1886. The club, established by Henry Lucas, were the one near-major league quality entry in the Union Association, a league that lasted only one season, due in large part to the dominance of the Maroons.
The St. Louis Maroons debuted on April 20, 1884 at the Union Base Ball Park, defeating the UA Chicago club, 7-2. The Maroons went 94-19 in that season,...
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The St. Louis Maroons were a professional baseball club based in St. Louis, Missouri from 1884-1886. The club, established by Henry Lucas, were the one near-major league quality entry in the Union Association, a league that lasted only one season, due in large part to the dominance of the Maroons.
The St. Louis Maroons debuted on April 20, 1884 at the Union Base Ball Park, defeating the UA Chicago club, 7-2. The Maroons went 94-19 in that season, which would translate to 134 wins in a modern 162 game schedule, although such an extrapolation is of questionable merit. Their closest rivals, the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds ball club, finished 21 games behind, which would translate to 106 wins. Those figures indicate something of the quality of the remainder of the organization, which many derided as the "Onion League".
One of the Maroons' major stars was pitcher Charlie Sweeney, best known today as the pitcher who left Old Hoss Radbourn to shoulder the pitching burden alone with the Providence...
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