Ottawa Wanderers

• Location: Ottawa, ON
• League: Eastern League 1898
• Affiliation: N/A
• Ballparks: Lansdowne Park (July 15-16), Metropolitan Grounds (Monday to Saturday starting July 19), Hull Ball Grounds (Sundays)

With the Rochester Patriots having trouble in the 1898 Eastern League, the club disbanded July 12th and the franchise was moved to Ottawa on July 13 where they became the Ottawa Wanderers.

The team hovered near the .500 mark until late August, when the bottom fell out of its season. Ottawa lost 14 of its last 15 games to finish in the cellar with a 53-70 mark, 18½ games out of first place.

Many players came and went. The top hitters on the team included "Quiet" Joe Knight, who finished second in the EL batting race with a .338 average, and 3B Bill Keister (.322 BA). The team did not return to the EL in 1899 though 53 years later IL baseball would return to Ottawa with the Ottawa Giants.

Source: "The International League: Year-by-Year Statistics" by Marshall Wright

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs
1898	53-70	8th	Mickey Finn (6/6 - 7/24) / Bill Clymer (7/25 - eos)

Further Reading

• Gary Belleville: "July 19, 1898: Jimmy ‘Gussie’ Gannon leads Ottawa to its first home victory in professional baseball," SABR Baseball Games Project.
• Craig Brown: "1898 Ottawa (Ottawas)," Threads of Our Game: 19th-Century Baseball Uniform Database.
• Tom Shieber: "Bagpipes and Baseball, or Clash of the Tartans," Baseball Researcher blog.