Providence Grays [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Providence Grays
The Providence Grays were a Major League Baseball team based in Providence, Rhode Island who played in the National League from until . The Grays played at the Messer Street Grounds in the Olneyville neighborhood. The team won the National League title twice, in and . Following the 1884 season, they won the first World Series over the New York Metropolitans of the American Association. The team folded after the season.
Origins and formation.
Rhode Island was a hotbed of baseball in the 1870s with several notable amateur
, but practiced so hard he developed a sore shoulder and was released. When he recovered, he pitched for a pick-up Bloomington team in an exhibition game against the Providence Grays. He impressed everyone so much that Providence signed him on the spot for a salary variously reported as $1,100 or $1,400.
Providence Grays.
Providence Grays 1881–1883 seasons.
During Radbourn's first season with the Grays in 1881, he split pitching duties with John Montgomery Ward. Radbourn pitched 325.1 innings and compiled a win-loss