1899 Cincinnati Reds season

March 2026 November 2013 Cincinnati Reds 1899 National League League Park Cincinnati, Ohio 83 67 y 6th John T. Brushhttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/59315136/reds-owners/ Reds owners The Cincinnati Enquirer 20 November 3, 2005 September 14, 2020 newspapers.com Buck Ewing The 1899 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The team finished in sixth place in the National League with a record of 83–67, 16 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas. Regular season The Reds were coming off a successful season in 1898, earning a third-place finish with a 92–60 record. However, they once again faded down the stretch, as the team was in first place in the first week of September before slumping for the remainder of the season. Buck Ewing returned to manage Cincinnati for a fifth season. The Reds also purchased Kip Selbach from the Washington Senators during the off-season for $5,000. Selbach batted .303 with three home runs and 60 RBI with the Senators in 1898. The club also acquired Bill Phillips, who spent the 1898 season with the Indianapolis Hoosiers of the Western League, where he had a 29–8 record. Phillips last played in the National League in 1895 with the Reds, going 6–7 with a 6.03 ERA. Twenty-year-old Noodles Hahn was also signed by Cincinnati, as he split the 1898 season with the Detroit Tigers and St. Paul Saints, going 12–20 between those two clubs. Jake Beckley had another strong offensive season, batting .333 with three home runs and 99 RBI, all team highs. Kip Selbach batted .297 with three home runs and 87 RBI, and also scored a team-high 105 runs. On the mound, Hahn was the ace, earning a 23–8 record with a 2.68 ERA in his rookie season. Hahn pitched a team high 309 innings, and struck out 145 batters. Phillips was also very solid, going 17–9 with a 3.32 ERA in 33 games. Season summary Cincinnati started the season off on the right foot, going 14–7 in their opening twenty-one games, only 1.5 games out of first. However, a 7–15 mark over their next twenty-two games saw the team fall under the .500 level with a 24–25 record, sitting in seventh place, 14.5 games behind the Brooklyn Superbas. The team would remain around the .500 mark, as they were 40–41, before going on a franchise record fourteen-game winning streak. Cincinnati's record improved to 54–41, however, they still remained in fifth place, eight games behind Brooklyn. The Reds then lost six of their next seven games to fall into sixth place, 12.5 games out. At the end of the season, Cincinnati was a sixth place team with an 83–67 record, 19 games behind Brooklyn. Season standings Cincinnati Reds Record vs. opponents CIN Roster 1899 Cincinnati Reds Roster Pitchers Ted Breitenstein Jack Cronin Bill Dammann Frank Dwyer Emil Frisk Noodles Hahn Pink Hawley Bill Phillips Jack Taylor Catchers Mike Kahoe Heinie Peitz Bob Wood Infielders Jake Beckley Tommy Corcoran Kid Elberfeld Charlie Irwin Bid McPhee Harry Steinfeldt Farmer Vaughn Outfielders Jimmy Barrett Sam Crawford Lefty Houtz Algie McBride Dusty Miller Kip Selbach Socks Seybold Mike Smith Jake Stenzel Manager Buck Ewing Player stats Batting Starters by position Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI C Heinie Peitz 94 293 79 .270 1 43 1B Jake Beckley 135 517 172 .333 3 99 2B Bid McPhee 112 377 105 .279 1 65 SS Tommy Corcoran 138 540 150 .278 0 81 3B Charlie Irwin 90 314 73 .232 1 52 OF Kip Selbach 141 525 156 .297 3 87 OF Dusty Miller Dusty Miller (1890s outfielder) 81 327 83 .254 0 37 OF Mike Smith Mike Smith (1890s outfielder) 88 343 101 .294 1 24 Other batters Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI Harry Steinfeldt 108 390 96 .246 0 43 Algie McBride 64 251 87 .347 1 23 Bob Wood Bob Wood (baseball) 63 195 61 .313 0 24 Kid Elberfeld 41 138 36 .261 0 22 Sam Crawford 31 127 39 .307 1 20 Farmer Vaughn 31 108 19 .176 0 2 Jimmy Barrett Jimmy Barrett (baseball) 26 92 34 .370 0 10 Socks Seybold 22 85 19 .224 0 8 Mike Kahoe 14 42 7 .167 0 4 Jake Stenzel 9 29 9 .310 0 3 Lefty Houtz 5 17 4 .235 0 0 Pitching Starting pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO Noodles Hahn 38 309.0 23 8 2.68 145 Pink Hawley 34 250.1 14 17 4.24 46 Bill Phillips Bill Phillips (pitcher) 33 227.2 17 9 3.32 43 Ted Breitenstein 26 210.2 13 9 3.59 59 Jack Taylor Jack Taylor (1890s pitcher) 25 180.1 9 10 4.09 35 Emil Frisk 9 68.1 3 6 3.95 17 Jack Cronin 5 41.0 2 2 5.49 9 Frank Dwyer 5 32.2 0 5 5.51 2 Other pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO Bill Dammann 9 48.0 2 1 4.88 2 Relief pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G W L SV ERA SO Heinie Peitz 1 0 0 0 5.40 3 References External links 1899 Cincinnati Reds season at Baseball Reference Category:Cincinnati Reds seasons Cincinnati Reds season Cincinnati Reds Category:1890s in Cincinnati