The Pittsburgh Burghers were a baseball team in the Players League, a short-lived Major League that existed only for the 1890 season. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each The Players' National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, popularly known as the Players' League (sometimes rendered as Players League) was a short-lived but The team included a number of players who had jumped from the National League's Pittsburgh Alleghenys (now the Pittsburgh Pirates), including Hall of Famers Pud Galvin, Ned Hanlon, and Jake Beckley. The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League ( NL) is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. James Francis "Pud" Galvin ( December 25, 1856 &ndash March 7, 1902) an American professional Baseball Edward Hugh "Ned" Hanlon ( August 22, 1857 - April 14, 1937) was a 19th century Major League Baseball player and Jacob Peter Beckley ( August 4, 1867 &ndash June 25, 1918) nicknamed "Eagle Eye" was a Major League Baseball player Hanlon served as the team's Manager. In Baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager (or more formally the field manager) this individual controls matters The team played at the Alleghenies' former home, Exposition Park. Exposition Park was a Baseball park that formerly stood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
In its only season, the Burghers finished in 6th place with a 60-68 record.
In an indirect way, it can be argued that the Burghers, alone among the old Players' League franchises, still exist today. Nearly all of the Alleghenys' stars had jumped to the upstart league, and the resulting drain on attendance led Alleghenys owner Dennis McKnight to return his franchise to the National League. He then joined the Burghers' ownership group as a minority owner, and this group repurchased the Pittsburgh National League franchise under a different corporate name. It is this franchise that forms the current ownership lineage of today's Pirates. [1]
- ^ Purdy, Dennis (2006). The Team-by-Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball. New York City: Workman. The City of New York Workman Publishing Company is a publisher of primarily non-fiction print and audio books along with calendars with annual sales of over $25 million ISBN 0761139435.
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