| Henry Wright | ||
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| Center fielder | ||
| Born: January 10, 1835 Sheffield, England | ||
| Died: October 3, 1895 (aged 60) Atlantic City, New Jersey | ||
| Batted: Right | Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | ||
| May 5, 1871 for the Boston Red Stockings | ||
| Final game | ||
| N/A, N/A for the Philadelphia Phillies | ||
| Career statistics | ||
| AVG | . A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the Outfielder in Baseball who plays defense in center field - the baseball fielding position Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 1835 ( MDCCCXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Events 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins 1215 - Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John Champions National Association (professional Philadelphia Athletics National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players Star of Brooklyn The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 272 | |
| Hits | 222 | |
| RBI | 111 | |
| Teams | ||
As Player As Manager | ||
| Career highlights and awards | ||
| Member of the National | ||
 Baseball Hall of Fame | ||
| Elected | 1953 | |
| Vote | Veteran's Committee | |
William Henry Wright (January 10, 1835 – October 3, 1895) was an English-born American professional baseball player, manager, and developer. In Baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H) sometimes called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches Champions National Association (professional Philadelphia Athletics National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players Star of Brooklyn Champions National Association: Boston Red Stockings National Association final standings Statistical leaders Champions National League: Chicago White Stockings Major League Baseball final standings Statistical Champions National League: Boston Red Caps International Association London‚ Ontario‚ Canada Tecumsehs League Champions National Association (professional Philadelphia Athletics National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players Star of Brooklyn Champions National Association: Boston Red Stockings National Association final standings Statistical leaders Champions National League: Chicago White Stockings Major League Baseball final standings Statistical Champions National League: Chicago White Stockings National League final standings Statistical leaders Providence Grays was a team name used by several major and minor league baseball teams based in Providence Rhode Island. Champions NOTE Chicago White Stockings played the Cincinnati Red Stockings in a 2-game post-season series Champions National League: Boston Beaneaters American Association: Philadelphia Athletics Inter-State The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Champions First World's Championship Series: Providence Grays over New York Metropolitans (3-0 National League Champions National League: Boston Beaneaters National League final standings Events Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-2 All-Star Game Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 1835 ( MDCCCXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each In Baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager (or more formally the field manager) this individual controls matters He assembled, managed, and played center field for baseball's first fully professional team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the Outfielder in Baseball who plays defense in center field - the baseball fielding position Baseball The original Cincinnati Red Stockings field baseball's first fully professional team ten men including player-manager Harry Wright The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were Baseball 's first openly all-professional team There he is credited with introduction of backing up plays in the outfield and shifting defensive alignments based on hitters' tendencies. He is in the Baseball Hall of Fame classified as a manager, a role that he virtually defined.
Born in Sheffield, England, the first son of professional cricketer Samuel Wright, "Harry" was not yet three when the family emigrated to the U. Sheffield ( is a city and Metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries S. for a job as bowler, coach, and groundskeeper at the St. George Cricket Club in New York. Both Harry and George, twelve years younger, assisted their father, effectively apprenticing as cricket "club pros". George Wright ( January 28 1847 &ndash August 21 1937) was an American pioneer in the sport of Baseball. Both played baseball, too, for some of the leading clubs during the amateur era of the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP). The National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP was the first organization governing American Baseball. George grew up with the "national game" and he was barely in his teens when the American Civil War curtailed its boom; Harry was already twenty-two when the baseball fraternity convened for the first time and thirty when the war ended. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South
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Cincinnati
When baseball boomed in 1866, the first full peacetime season, Harry Wright was 31, probably past his athletic prime. He moved to Cincinnati on salary at the Union Cricket Club. Less than a year later he became, in effect, club pro at the Cincinnati Base Ball Club, although he is commonly called simply a baseball "manager" from that time.
Cincinnati fielded a strong regional club in 1867. With Wright working as the regular pitcher, and still a superior player at that level, the team won 16 matches and lost only to the Nationals of Washington DC on their historic tour. For 1868 he added four players from the East and one from the crosstown Buckeye club, a vanquished rival. The easterners, at least, must have been compensated by club members if not by the club.
When the NABBP permitted professionalism for 1869, Harry augmented his 1868 imports (retaining four of five) with five new men, including three more originally from the East. No one but Harry Wright himself remained from 1867; one local man and one other westerner joined seven easterners on the famous First Nine. The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were Baseball 's first openly all-professional team The most important of the new men was brother George, probably the best player in the game for a few years, the highest paid man in Cincinnati at $1400 for nine months. George at shortstop remained a cornerstone of Harry's teams for ten seasons.
The Red Stockings toured the continent undefeated in 1869 and may have been the strongest team in 1870, but the club dropped professional base ball after the second season, its fourth in the game. As it turned out, the Association also passed from the scene.
Manager
During this early era, the rules of the sport for many years prohibited substitution during games except by mutual agreement with opponents, and the role of a team manager was not as specifically geared toward game strategy as is true in the modern era; instead, managers of the period combined the role of a field manager with that of a modern general manager in that they were primarily responsible for signing talented players and forming a versatile roster, as well as establishing a team approach through practice and game fundamentals. In Major League Baseball, the General Manager or GM of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the ballclub
1871
From an invitation in 1871 by Ivers Whitney Adams, the founder and President of the Boston Red Stockings, Wright moved from managing the "Cincinnati Red Stockings" to work professionally with the first-ever base ball team in Boston, the "Boston Red Stockings" He managed the Boston Red Stockings (1871 - 1875), Boston Red Caps (1876 - 1881), Providence Grays (1882 - 1883) and Philadelphia Quakers/Phillies (1884 - 1893). Ivers Whitney Adams (born in Ashburnham Massachusetts in 1838 was an American baseball executive and businessperson Baseball March - Ten NABBP clubs found the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, the first professional sports league Baseball The Boston Red Stockings win a fourth consecutive pennant Baseball February 2 - The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (NL is founded at the Grand Central Hotel in New York City the first pro sports Baseball Detroit replaces Cincinnati leaving Cleveland and Providence the southerly cities on the National League circuit Providence Grays was a team name used by several major and minor league baseball teams based in Providence Rhode Island. Baseball The American Association opens in six southerly cities from St Baseball The NL AA and Northwestern League limit competition in the Tripartite Agreement, the first National Agreement and the birth of so-called The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Baseball World Series the First - Providence NL defeats New York AA, 3 games to none Basketball April 8 - First college basketball game took place in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania when Geneva College defeated the New Brighton His teams won six league championships (1872 - 1875, 1877, 1878) and he finished his managerial career with 1225 wins and 885 losses for a . Baseball The National Association (NA permits Pitching with a wrist snap practically legalizing the Mutual of New York (NA. Baseball Star Pitcher Jim Devlin and three other Louisville Grays are permanently expelled from the National League for Baseball Harry Wright leads Boston to another pennant once again with brother George Wright at shortstop and Andy Leonard in the 581 winning percentage.
Wright died on October 3, 1895 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, just short of 61 years old. Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a Cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd Pennsylvania, United States. Bala Cynwyd is a Village in Lower Merion Township which is located in the Main Line in southeastern Pennsylvania, bordering the western
Wright was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953. Athletics Marathon September 12 &mdash Enschede Marathon, Netherlands Men's Winner He was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2005. The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame was instituted in 1958 to recognize the career of former Cincinnati Reds players managers and front-office executives His brother George Wright is also a member of both Halls; a third brother, Sam, also played professionally. George Wright ( January 28 1847 &ndash August 21 1937) was an American pioneer in the sport of Baseball.
See also
References
- Alvarez, Mark (1996). Major League Baseball recognizes saves champions in the American League and National League each season "William Henry Wright (Harry)". Baseball's First Stars. Edited by Frederick Ivor-Campbell, et al. Cleveland, OH: SABR. ISBN 0-910137-58-7
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (major league manager)
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (major league player)
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Harry Wright (Hall of Fame biography)
- Retrosheet. "Harry Wright". Retrieved 2006-08-29.
- Wright, Marshall (2000). The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0779-4
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