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Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 by Unknown
page 39 of 385 (10%)
defeats 1 5 2 3 1 12 2 1 2 2 1 1 9 21
Home victories 5 1 4 5 5 20 6 4 7 8 6 6 37 57
Home defeats 1 4 2 2 1 10 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 13
Victories abroad 1 2 3 3 6 15 3 2 2 2 4 4 17 32
Defeats abroad 5 4 2 2 0 13 2 3 3 1 2 2 13 26
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It will be seen that the Baltimores "shut out" but one Eastern team and
not a single Western opponent, while they themselves were "Chicagoed"
once by each, viz., by New York and Louisville, the tail ender's "shut
out" being annoying. Only two of their contests with the Eastern teams
were won by a single run, but they won three games against the Eastern
teams by one run. They lost seven games by a single run, three of them
in the East and four against Western adversaries. No less than forty of
their games were won by single figure scores, viz., 12 against Eastern
teams and 28 against Western opponents. They lost a total of but 18
single figure games. Their double figure victories were no less than 49,
against but 21 double figure defeats. They won 57 home victories against
32 abroad, the defeats being 18 at home to 26 abroad. Take it all in
all, the Baltimores did splendid work in the box, the field and at the
bat, the only drawback to their creditable season's campaign being too
much kicking and rowdy ball playing, in the latter of which McGraw was
the principal offender.

#The Records of the New York and Boston Clubs of 1894.#

The New York club's team entered the campaign of 1894 decidedly
handicapped. The club had excellent material at command wherewith to
make up a strong team; but the manager had great difficulty at first in
getting it into team work condition, he being hampered by the
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