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curtailed that; after playing 21 matches in 1860, the
Excelsiors played none in 1861 and only a few in 1862. Following Creighton's premature death, Brainard succeeded him as the regular pitcher and remained in that role for four seasons. The Excelsiors played a heavy schedule again in 1866, the first
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When the NABBP permitted professionalism, the Red
Stockings hired five incumbents including Brainard and five new men to complete its famous Nine, the first team on salary for a season. In their 1869 campaign, Asa Brainard pitched more than 70% of the innings, Harry Wright more than 25%, as the team
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at age 47, only a few months after John Bass at age 40, the first major league ballplayer to die in that city. Owing to its dry climate and relative convenience, Denver had become a destination for people suffering from tuberculosis. He is buried in
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Stockings toured again in 1870, with Brainard pitching almost 70% of the innings in 74 games. Occasionally beaten this year, the team may have been the strongest again, but the club dropped professional baseball in the fall.
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National club of Washington completed the first western tour, playing ten games from Ohio to Missouri during three weeks in July. Brainard probably joined the team in the fall, in time for a shorter tour from
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Harry Wright was hired to organize a new team in Boston, where he signed three teammates for 1871, also bringing along the "Red
Stockings" designation. The other five regulars including Asa Brainard and catcher
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Brainard. (Wright (2000) distinguishes them simply as "P,2B" and "2B,P".) Maybe Asa's reputation and bargaining power were at low ebb.
373:(NA). The five former Red Stockings led the Olympics to a respectable finish in the inaugural NA season. Brainard's published "career statistics" begin with this year.
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301:Civil War
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100:MLB debut
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