[1] During two of those seasons, he acted as a player-manager, once for the 1880 Buffalo Bisons of the National League and the 1884 Cincinnati Outlaw Reds of the short-lived Union Association.

Freedman, upon learning of existence of the article, barred Sam from entering the Polo Grounds.

When Crane showed up for the August 16 game, he learned that his season pass was taken and his efforts to purchase a ticket were foiled.

Cooperstown was, at the time, the place that many people believed where Abner Doubleday had invented the game of baseball.

It was this idea of a memorial that eventually led to the creation of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1939.