From the desk: FINGERPRINTS OF DEM BUMS
In baseball's sixth ever World Series clash of 1889, the National League New York Giants defeated the American Association champion Brooklyn Bridegrooms six games to three, and an inter-city rivalry was born. While this marked New York's second straight championship victory over the Association, it would be Brooklyn's last as an AA member club. The following season, the Bridegrooms would make their National League debut. Welcome to "BEFORE the BUMS" my game-by-game rewind of (the city) Brooklyn's historic 1890 season.
Bridegrooms Hit Amos Rusie's Offerings to All Parts of the Field
Ladies were admitted free to Washington Park, where a crowd of 1,323 witnessed the Bridegrooms take their second straight contest from the visiting New York Giants. Jim Mutrie's young acquisition from Indianapolis, the highly touted Amos Rusie, climbed the hill versus Mickey Hughes hurling for the hosts. After trading pairs of runs in the first, Hughes kept the Giants scoreless through the eighth. Not until the ninth did the Giants manage one last run. Triples by Oyster Burns and Dave Foutz highlighted Brooklyn's early game outbursts. With three runs in the second, two in the third, and one more in the fourth, the busy Bridegrooms slugged to an 8-3 margin of victory.
- FINAL: NYG 3; BKN 8
- RECORD: 6-4 (.600); 4th place, 1 GB of Philadelphia Phillies
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