1877 National League

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The 1877 season of the National League was the second season of the league.

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Standings

Bold indicates league champion

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB	RS (RS/G)	RA (RA/G)	AVG	OBP	SLG	ERA	FPCT
1	Boston Red Stockings	61	42	18	1	.689	-.-	419 (6.87)	263 (4.31)	0.296	0.314	0.370	2.15	0.889
2	Louisville Grays	61	35	25	1	.574	7.0	339 (5.56)	288 (4.72)	0.280	0.297	0.354	2.25	0.904
3	Hartford Dark Blues	60	31	27	2	.517	10.0	341 (5.68)	311 (5.18)	0.270	0.279	0.328	2.32	0.885
4	St. Louis Brown Stockings	60	28	32	0	.467	14.0	284 (4.73)	318 (5.30)	0.244	0.263	0.302	2.66	0.892
5	Chicago White Stockings	60	26	33	1	.433	15.5	366 (6.10)	375 (6.25)	0.278	0.296	0.340	3.37	0.883
6	Cincinnati Reds	58	15	42	1	.259	25.5	291 (5.02)	485 (8.36)	0.255	0.282	0.329	4.19	0.852

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	9 players tied		61
At Bats	George Wright	Boston Red Stockings	290
Runs Scored	Jim O'Rourke	Boston Red Stockings	68
Hits	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	103
Doubles	Cap Anson	Chicago White Stockings	19
Triples	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	11
Home Runs	Lip Pike	Cincinnati Reds	4
Total Bases	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	145
Runs Batted In	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	49
Walks	Jim O'Rourke	Boston Red Stockings	20
Strikeouts	Lew Brown	Boston Red Stockings	33
Batting Average	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	0.387
On-Base Percentage	Jim O'Rourke	Boston Red Stockings	0.407
Slugging Percentage	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	0.545
On-Base plus Slugging	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	0.950
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Deacon White	Boston Red Stockings	191

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Tommy Bond	Boston Red Stockings	40
Losses	Jim Devlin Terry Larkin	Louisville Grays Hartford Dark Blues	25
Win-Loss Percentage	Tommy Bond	Boston Red Stockings	0.702
Appearances	Jim Devlin	Louisville Grays	61
Games Started	Jim Devlin	Louisville Grays	61
Complete Games	Jim Devlin	Louisville Grays	61
Shutouts	Tommy Bond	Boston Red Stockings	6
Games Finished	George Bradley	Chicago White Stockings	7
Saves	Cal McVey	Chicago White Stockings	2
Innings Pitched	Jim Devlin	Louisville Grays	559.0
Batters Faced	Jim Devlin	Louisville Grays	2328
Hits Allowed	Jim Devlin	Louisville Grays	617
Home Runs Allowed	Tommy Bond	Boston Red Stockings	5
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Terry Larkin Tricky Nichols	Hartford Dark Blues St. Louis Brown Stockings	53
Strikeouts	Tommy Bond	Boston Red Stockings	170
Wild Pitches	George Bradley	Chicago White Stockings	39
Balks	19 players tied		0
Runs Allowed	Jim Devlin	Louisville Grays	288
Earned Runs Allowed	George Bradley	Chicago White Stockings	145
Earned Run Average	Tommy Bond	Boston Red Stockings	2.11
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Tommy Bond	Boston Red Stockings	1.086

Umpires

• W.J. Bigelow*
• Charles Boles
• Brady*
• A.C. Bredberg
• John Brockway*
• Josh Bunce
• Warren Burtis
• Moses Chandler*
• Fred Cone
• Robert Crandall
• Dan Devinney
• Doc Draper*
• Ed Ducharme
• Bill Furlong
• Bill Gleason*
• Jack Gleason*
• Scott Hastings*
• Amory Hodges
• W.W. Kelley*
• John Kenney
• Maguire*
• Harvey McElwee
• James Meagher*
• William Medart*
• A.G. Mills*
• Paddy Quinn*
• George Seward
• Carey Snoddy*
• Calvin Stambaugh
• James Sumner
• William Walker
• Frank Wash*
• Gideon White*
• Harry Wright*

* Denotes a fill-in umpire

Further Reading

• Woody Eckard: "The 1877 National League's Two Cincinnati Clubs: Where They In or Out, and Why the Confusion?", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 52 Number 1 (Spring 2023), pp. 80-85.
• Wendell Lloyd Jones: The Louisville Grays and the Myth of Baseball’s First Great Scandal, Mcfarland, Jefferson, NC, 2024. ISBN 978-1-4766-9438-2