1888 Brooklyn Bridegrooms season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969‎
name = Brooklyn Bridegrooms
season = 1888
misc =

current league = American Association (19th century)!American Association
y1 = 1884
Uniform
ballpark = Washington Park
y4 = 1883
city = Brooklyn, New York
y5 = 1883
owners = Charles Byrne, Ferdinand Abell
managers = Bill McGunnigle
television = none
radio = none|

With the 1888 season, the team underwent a name change to the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, a nickname that resulted from several team members getting married around the same time. Also, owner Charles Byrne decided to withdraw from managing the team's on field activities and turned the reigns over to more experienced baseball manager Bill McGunnigle. That, along with the Dodgers purchase of several top players from the defunct New York Metropolitans, led to a dramatic on field improvement as the team finished in second place in the American Association.

eason standings

1888 Roster

1888 Transactions

*October 20: Purchased Jim Donahue, Bill Fagan, Frank Hankinson, Bill Holbert, Al Mays, Darby O'Brien and Paul Radford from the New York Metropolitans
*November 21: Purchased Doc Bushong from the St. Louis Browns
*November 26: Purchased Bob Caruthers from the St. Louis Browns
*November 29: Purchased Dave Foutz from the St. Louis Browns
*January 15: Sold Jim Donahue, Bill Fagan, Frank Hankinson, Bill Phillips, Henry Porter and Steve Toole to the Kansas City Cowboys
*February: Sold Bert Cunningham and John Harkins to the Baltimore Orioles
*February 15: Sold Jim McTamany to the Kansas City Cowboys
*August 10: Purchased Oyster Burns from the Baltimore Orioles
*September 15: Sold Bill McClellan to the Cleveland Spiders
*September 23: Purchased Pop Corkhill from the Cincinnati Reds
*September 30: Purchased Hub Collins from the Louisville Colonels

External links

* [http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/bdodgers/brooklyn.html Brooklyn Dodgers reference site]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1888.shtml Baseball-Reference season page]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1888&t=BR3 Baseball Almanac season page]
* [http://pressbox.mlb.com/pressbox/downloads/y2007/la/history_records.pdf Dodgers Media Guide History]
* [http://www.acmewebpages.com/dodgers/ Acme Dodgers page]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/ Retrosheet]