1875 St. Louis Red Stockings season

1875 St. Louis Red Stockings
League	National Association of Professional Base Ball Players
Ballpark	Red Stocking Baseball Park
City	St. Louis, Missouri
Manager	Charlie Sweasy

The St. Louis Red Stockings played their first and only season of professional baseball in 1875 as a member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. They finished tenth in the league with a record of 4–15.

Regular season

Season standings

National Association	W	L	T	GB	Pct.
Boston Red Stockings	71	8	3	–	.884
Philadelphia Athletics	53	20	4	15.0	.714
Hartford Dark Blues	54	28	3	18.5	.659
St. Louis Brown Stockings	39	29	2	26.5	.571
Philadelphia White Stockings	37	31	2	28.5	.542
Chicago White Stockings	30	37	2	35.0	.449
New York Mutuals	30	38	3	35.5	.443
New Haven Elm Citys	7	40	–	48.0	.149
Washington Nationals	5	23	–	40.5	.179
St. Louis Red Stockings	4	15	–	37.0	.211
Philadelphia Centennials	2	12	–	36.5	.143
Brooklyn Atlantics	2	42	–	51.5	.045
Keokuk Westerns	1	12	–	37.0	.077

Record vs. opponents

1875 National Association Records Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
Team	BOS	BR	CHI	HAR	KEO	NH	NY	PHA	PHC	PWS	SLB	SLR	WSH
Boston	—	6–0	8–2	9–1	1–0	5–1	10–0	8–2–2	4–0	6–0–1	7–2	1–0	6–0
Brooklyn	0–6	—	0–2	0–10	0–0	2–1	0–7	0–7	0–0	0–7	0–2	0–0	0–0
Chicago	2–8	2–0	—	4–6–1	4–0	2–1	3–3	1–7–1	0–0	3–7	5–5	4–0	0–0
Hartford	1–9	10–0	6–4–1	—	0–0	8–1	8–2–2	4–3–1	1–0	4–4	5–5	3–0	4–0
Keokuk	0–1	0–0	0–4	0–0	—	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	1–2	0–0
New Haven	1–5	1–2	1–2	1–8	0–0	—	1–5	0–7	0–1	0–4	1–2	0–0	1–4
New York	0–10	7–0	3–3	2–8–2	1–0	5–1	—	3–6	2–0	5–2	0–8–1	2–0	0–0
Philadelphia Athletics	2–8–2	7–0	7–1–1	3–4–1	0–0	7–0	6–3	—	2–1	8–2	6–1	0–0	5–0
Philadelphia Centennials	0–4	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	—	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Philadelphia White Stockings	0–6–1	7–0	7–3	4–4	0–0	4–0	2–5	2–8	3–0	—	5–5–1	1–0	2–0
St. Louis Brown Stockings	2–7	2–0	5–5	5–5	4–0	2–1	8–0–1	1–6	0–0	5–5–1	—	2–0	3–0
St. Louis Red Stockings	0–1	0–0	0–4	0–3	2–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–2	—	2–1
Washington	0–6	0–0	0–0	0–4	0–0	4–1	0–0	0–5	0–0	0–2	0–3	1–2	—

Roster

1875 St. Louis Red Stockings
Roster
Pitchers Joe Blong Catchers Packy Dillon Silver Flint		Infielders John Dillon Joe Ellick Charlie Hautz Trick McSorley Billy Redmond Charlie Sweasy		Outfielders Art Croft Pidgey Morgan Tom Oran		Managers Charlie Sweasy

Player stats

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Silver Flint	17	61	5	.082	0	1
Charlie Hautz	19	83	25	.301	0	4
Charlie Sweasy	19	76	13	.171	0	4
Billy Redmond	19	82	16	.195	0	1
Trick McSorley	15	52	11	.212	0	2
Tom Oran	18	81	15	.185	0	10
Pidgey Morgan	19	69	18	.261	0	1
Art Croft	19	75	15	.200	0	2
Joe Ellick	7	27	6	.222	0	1
Packy Dillon	3	13	3	.231	0	1
John Dillon	1	1	0	.000	0	0

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins, L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Joe Blong	15	129.0	3	12	3.07	14
Pidgey Morgan	7	42.0	1	3	1.29	7

References

• 1875 St. Louis Red Stockings season at Baseball Reference