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four strongest teams and ten wins in ten matches with the others. By playing strength they ranked about the same among fifteen professional teams in 1870, at 11–13–1. During the former season, a forfeit win over the
Haymakers on August 26 in Cincinnati was the only blemish on the record of the first professional team, the undefeated
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557:Now defunct
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346:Bill Craver
185:Bill Craver
142:(1871–1872)
125:(1860–1870)
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780:Categories
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393:References
350:Jimmy Wood
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171:Managers
132:Ballpark
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376:See also
342:Lip Pike
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249:baseball
245:American
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604:Defunct
284:Trojans
255:History
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