Sunday, October 23, 2022

BEFORE the BUMS 10/23/1890: Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Louisville Colonels Rained Out at Washington Park

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 the New York Giants second straight championship victory over the Association, it would be Brooklyn's last campaign as an AA member club.  The following season, the Bridegrooms would make their National League debut where they remain to this day.  Welcome to "BEFORE the BUMS" my game-by-game rewind of (the city) Brooklyn's historic 1890 season.

1890
WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP
GAME SIX
Thursday, October 23, 1890
vs.
FROM
Washington Park








GAME CALLED: RAIN


On Thursday, at 1:00 pm, along the Brooklyn waterfront, the Bridegrooms were to receive the visiting Louisville Colonels ferrying in from Manhattan.  Charles Byrne planned a procession of carriages to be led by a music band that would depart via Washington Street towards Clinton Street, then turn onto Joralemon Street, through Court Street, and on to Fulton Street.  Upon reaching Flatbush Avenue, the procession would have turned right onto Fourth Avenue and straight to Washington Park.  Louisville manager Jack Chapman, a Brooklyn native and former player of the amateur-era Brooklyn Atlantics, was due to be greeted by local fans, old friends, and former teammates.  Before the scheduled 3:00 pm game, the Bridegrooms were also going to hoist their 1890 National League championship pennant up the main flagpole.  But Jupiter Pluvius was having none of it.  Gusts of 40-mph winds, heavy rain, and high tide conspired against Brooklyn's southern shores.  From the beachfront hotels in Manhattan Beach and Brighton, damage and flooding extended through Coney Island, Gravesend, and the Bath Beach waterfront.  "The scene is indeed a wild one everywhere.   Nature seems to have broken loose on the flimsy works of man and is disposed to make very light of them before the storm is done." - Brooklyn Daily Eagle.



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