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Baltimore Monumentals
The Baltimore Monumentals were an American baseball team in the short-lived Union Association. In their lone season of 1884, they finished fourth in the UA with a 58-47 record.
History.
The team was managed by Bill Henderson. Their top-hitting regular was left fielder Emmett Seery, who batted .311 with a slugging percentage of .408, and their ace pitcher was Bill Sweeney, who was 40-21 with an earned run average of 2.59, and pitched 538 of the team's
Name confusion.
Retrosheet and Baseball Reference call the UA team the Monumentals. However, the "Baltimore Sun" for 1884 consistently called the UA team simply the "Unions", while "Monumentals" referred to a short-lived Baltimore entry in the minor Eastern League.
See also.
- 1884 Baltimore Monumentals season
External links.
- Baseball Reference Team Index