Scott Fennessy has been playing with the 1883 Baseball for Windows season and sent me this screenshot of Dan Brouthers card. He’s a DYW. Whatta bum!
All kidding aside, 6’2” Brouthers (pronounced “BROO-thurz”, I just learned) gets a heck of a card for the first place Buffalo Bisons. In just 98 games, he led baseball’s “National League” with 159 hits, 17 triples and 97 rbis. He paced the league with a .374 batting average, .397 OBP AND .572 slugging percentage too.
| Year | Tm | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883 | BUF | 98 | 441 | 425 | 85 | 159 | 41 | 17 | 3 | 97 | 16 | 17 | .374 | .397 | .572 |
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 8/24/2015.
Some of you might be thinking… “A .374 average is great and all but does that warrant a 31-7 or a 13-9. I initially thought the same thing till I noticed that Big Dan only has one 14. That will boost the hit numbers.
In all Brouthers’ hit numbers are pretty impressive:
0-0-0-0-0-7-7-7-8-8-8-9-9-10-11
While he just has the one 36-14, he has three 31s. He also has two error numbers (53-20 and 21-18 as well as the two unusual play numbers that firstbaseman are typically assigned (23-41 and 45-37).
Fun numbers: 44-0, 13-9, 64-8
If you’re wondering, Big Dan deserves that pitching grade of 1. He gave up seven earned runs in two innings for a hefty ERA of 31.50.
Dan Brouthers career spanned a transitional period in baseball history. His rookie year was 1879 when organized baseball was in its infancy. By the time he was almost done playing, it was 1896. Brouthers actually had one more year left in him when he came back for a cup of coffee in 1904 with the New York Giants.
Shoot, that was almost yesterday, wasn’t it?
thanks, Scott!
