1872 Brooklyn Eckfords season

The Brooklyn Eckfords played their first and only season of professional baseball in 1872 as a member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. They finished ninth in the league with a record of 3-26.

1872 Brooklyn Eckfords
League	National Association of Professional Base Ball Players
Ballpark	Union Grounds
City	Brooklyn, New York
Managers	Jim Clinton, Jimmy Wood

Regular season

Season standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	RF	RA	RD	GB
1	Boston Red Stockings (C)	48	39	8	1	521	236	+285	—
2	Baltimore Canaries	58	35	19	4	617	434	+183	7.5
3	New York Mutuals	56	34	20	2	523	362	+161	8.5
4	Philadelphia Athletics	47	30	14	3	539	349	+190	7.5
5	Troy Haymakers	25	15	10	0	273	191	+82	13
6	Brooklyn Atlantics	37	9	28	0	237	473	−236	25
7	Cleveland Forest Citys	22	6	16	0	174	254	−80	20.5
8	Middletown Mansfields	24	5	19	0	220	348	−128	22.5
9	Brooklyn Eckfords	29	3	26	0	152	413	−261	27
10	Washington Olympics	9	2	7	0	54	140	−86	18
11	Washington Nationals	11	0	11	0	80	190	−110	21

Source: Baseball Reference
(C) Champions

Record vs. opponents

1872 National Association Records v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Team	BAL	BOS	BRA	BRE	CLE	MID	NY	PHI	TRO	WSN	WSO
Baltimore	—	0–7	5–1	5–1	4–1	4–0	5–4–2	4–5–2	3–0	3–0	2–0
Boston	7–0	—	7–1	3–0	4–0	3–0	7–2	4–4–1	2–1	1–0	1–0
Brooklyn Atlantics	1–5	1–7	—	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–6	0–4	0–2	0–0	0–0
Brooklyn Eckfords	1–5	0–3	2–2	—	0–1	0–2	0–5	0–5	0–3	0–0	0–0
Cleveland	1–4	0–4	1–1	1–0	—	0–1	1–2	0–3	0–1	1–0	1–0
Middletown	0–4	0–3	1–2	2–0	1–0	—	0–4	0–2	0–4	1–0	0–0
New York	4–5–2	2–7	6–2	5–0	2–1	4–0	—	6–3	3–2	1–0	1–0
Philadelphia	5–4–2	4–4–1	4–0	5–0	3–0	2–0	3–6	—	2–0	1–0	1–0
Troy	0–3	1–2	2–0	3–0	1–0	4–0	2–3	0–2	—	1–0	1–0
Washington Nationals	0–3	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	—	0–2
Washington Olympics	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	2–0	—

Roster

1872 Brooklyn Eckfords
Roster
Pitchers Martin Malone Phonney Martin Joe McDermott O'Rourke George Zettlein Catchers Doug Allison William Bestick Nat Jewett David Lenz		Infielders Andy Allison Doug Allison James Cavanagh Frank Fleet Jim Holdsworth Al Martin Jack McDonald Candy Nelson Jim Snyder Marty Swandell Jimmy Wood		Outfielders Jim Clinton George Fletcher Count Gedney Dick Hunt Tom Patterson Josh Snyder		Managers Jim Clinton Jimmy Wood

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
Doug Allison	18	83	28	.337	0	4
Andy Allison	22	92	15	.163	0	10
Jimmy Wood	7	31	6	.194	0	0
Jim Snyder	25	103	30	.291	0	11
Frank Fleet	13	53	12	.226	0	6
Tom Patterson	12	47	10	.213	0	3
Josh Snyder	9	37	6	.162	0	1
Count Gedney	18	71	13	.183	0	6
Jim Clinton	25	98	24	.245	0	6
Candy Nelson	18	76	19	.250	0	9
Marty Swandell	14	52	12	.231	0	4
Dick Hunt	11	46	15	.326	0	4
James Cavanagh	5	23	6	.261	0	4
Bill Allison	6	21	3	.143	0	1
Al Martin	4	18	5	.278	0	1
Martin Malone	5	16	6	.375	0	3
William Bestick	4	14	4	.286	0	0
David Lenz	4	12	1	.083	0	0
Jim Holdsworth	3	11	3	.273	0	0
Nat Jewett	2	8	1	.125	0	0
George Fletcher	2	8	2	.250	0	1
Jack McDonald	1	4	0	.000	0	0

Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Phonney Martin	10	85.0	2	7	3.92	3
George Zettlein	9	75.1	1	8	3.58	8
James McDermott	7	63.0	0	7	8.14	1
Martin Malone	2	18.0	0	2	10.50	0
O'Rourke	1	9.0	0	1	8.00	0
Jim Clinton	1	9.0	0	1	7.00	1

References

• 1872 Brooklyn Eckfords season at Baseball Reference