1887 American Association

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The 1887 season of the American Association was the sixth season of the league.

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Standings

Bold indicates league champion, Italics indicates World Series champion

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB	RS (RS/G)	RA (RA/G)	AVG	OBP	SLG	ERA	FPCT
1	St. Louis Browns	138	95	40	3	.688	-.-	1131 (8.20)	761 (5.51)	0.307	0.363	0.413	3.77	0.916
2	Cincinnati Red Stockings	136	81	54	1	.596	14.0	892 (6.56)	745 (5.48)	0.268	0.322	0.371	3.58	0.915
3	Baltimore Orioles	141	77	58	6	.546	18.0	975 (6.91)	861 (6.11)	0.277	0.341	0.380	3.87	0.907
4	Louisville Colonels	139	76	60	3	.547	19.5	956 (6.88)	854 (6.14)	0.289	0.347	0.385	3.82	0.903
5	Philadelphia Athletics	137	64	69	4	.467	30.0	893 (6.52)	890 (6.50)	0.277	0.321	0.375	4.59	0.907
6	Brooklyn Grays	138	60	74	4	.435	34.5	904 (6.55)	918 (6.65)	0.261	0.324	0.350	4.47	0.905
7	New York Metropolitans	138	44	89	5	.319	50.0	754 (5.46)	1093 (7.92)	0.248	0.311	0.329	5.28	0.894
8	Cleveland Blues	133	39	92	2	.293	54.0	729 (5.48)	1112 (8.36)	0.252	0.308	0.332	4.99	0.898

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Oyster Burns Blondie Purcell	Baltimore Orioles Baltimore Orioles	140
At Bats	Arlie Latham	St. Louis Browns	627
Runs Scored	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	167
Hits	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	225
Doubles	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	52
Triples	Oyster Burns Jumbo Davis John Kerins Bid McPhee Tip O'Neill Tom Poorman	Baltimore Orioles Baltimore Orioles Louisville Colonels Cincinnati Red Stockings St. Louis Browns Philadelphia Athletics	19
Home Runs	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	14
Total Bases	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	357
Runs Batted In	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	123
Stolen Bases	Hugh Nicol	Cincinnati Red Stockings	138
Walks	Paul Radford	New York Metropolitans	106
Hit by Pitch	Tommy Tucker	Baltimore Orioles	29
Batting Average	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	'0.435
On-Base Percentage	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	'0.490
Slugging Percentage	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	'0.691
On-Base plus Slugging	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	'1.181
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Tip O'Neill	St. Louis Browns	211

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Matt Kilroy	Baltimore Orioles	46
Losses	Al Mays	New York Metropolitans	34
Win-Loss Percentage	Bob Caruthers	St. Louis Browns	0.763
Appearances	Matt Kilroy	Baltimore Orioles	69
Games Started	Matt Kilroy	Baltimore Orioles	69
Complete Games	Matt Kilroy	Baltimore Orioles	66
Shutouts	Matt Kilroy Tony Mullane	Baltimore Orioles Cincinnati Red Stockings	6
Games Finished	Adonis Terry	Brooklyn Grays	5
Saves	Adonis Terry	Brooklyn Grays	3
Innings Pitched	Matt Kilroy	Baltimore Orioles	589.1
Batters Faced	Matt Kilroy	Baltimore Orioles	2492
Hits Allowed	Matt Kilroy	Baltimore Orioles	585
Home Runs Allowed	Mike Morrison	Cleveland Blues	13
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Mike Morrison	Cleveland Blues	205
Hit Batsmen	Gus Weyhing	Philadelphia Athletics	37
Strikeouts	Toad Ramsey	Louisville Colonels	355
Wild Pitches	John Shaffer	New York Metropolitans	13
Balks	71 players tied		0
Runs Allowed	Phenomenal Smith	Baltimore Orioles	369
Earned Runs Allowed	Al Mays	New York Metropolitans	232
Earned Run Average	Elmer Smith	Cincinnati Red Stockings	2.94
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Bob Caruthers	St. Louis Browns	1.167

Postseason

In the World's Series, the American Association champion St. Louis Browns were defeated by the National League's Detroit Wolverines, 10 games to 5.

Umpires

• Kid Baldwin*
• Billy Barnie*
• Al Bauer
• Ed Bloom*
• J. Brown*
• Jack Burdock*
• Elton Chamberlain*
• John Connell
• Wes Curry
• Ned Cuthbert
• Law Daniels*
• Dan Devinney
• Herm Doscher*
• Ed Dugan*
• Hugh Dunlevy*
• Bob Ferguson
• Chris Fulmer*
• Billy Geer*
• Hugo Helburn*
• Michael Hurley
• Al Jennings
• Jim Keenan*
• Kick Kelly
• Matt Kilroy*
• Lon Knight
• John Magner*
• Frank Marshall*
• Al Mays*
• Jack McQuaid
• William Medart*
• Mitchell*
• Joe Murphy*
• Darby O'Brien*
• Bill Paasch*
• Harry Parker*
• Lip Pike*
• Dick Ramsey*
• George Smith*
• Phenomenal Smith*
• Jerry Sullivan
• Ted Sullivan
• Charlie Sweeney*
• John Talbot*
• John Valentine
• Mike Walsh
• Edward West*
• Ben Young

* Denotes a fill-in umpire

Further Reading

• Woody Eckard: "The Impact of the One-off 1887 Four-strike Strikeout", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 51, Number 2 (Fall 2022), pp. 70-73.