Providence Grays History (1878 - ) - The Baseball Gauge @ Seamheads.com

Providence Grays

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Record	438 - 278 (.612)
Home +/-	+42.1
Away +/-	+38.6

	#	Last	Since
World Series	1	1884	0 yrs
League	2	1884	1 yrs
Division	0		0 yrs
Wild Card	0		0 yrs

Baseball-Reference Links		Links
Team Encyclopedia	Batting Stats	Retrosheet
Starters Positional	Pitching Stats	Baseball-Almanac
Starters Pitching	Batting Leaders	Baseball America Execs
Opening Day Starters	Pitching Leaders	Wikipedia / BR Bullpen
Managers	Team Batting	SportsLogos.net
Amateur Drafts	Team Pitching	Official Site

Providence Grays All-Time Team

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com

Left Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Tom York	5	1878	1882	8.8
Cliff Carroll	4	1882	1885	3.4

Center Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Paul Hines	8	1878	1885	26.3

Right Field	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Jim O'Rourke	1	1879	1879	3.3
Dick Higham	1	1878	1878	2.0
Mike Dorgan	1	1880	1880	1.2
John Cassidy	1	1883	1883	-0.1
Paul Radford	2	1884	1885	-0.1

Shortstop	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Arthur Irwin	3	1883	1885	5.9
George Wright	2	1879	1882	3.5
John Peters	1	1880	1880	1.5
Tom Carey	1	1878	1878	0.8

Second Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Jack Farrell	7	1879	1885	15.2
Mike McGeary	2	1879	1880	1.7
Charlie Sweasy	1	1878	1878	-1.2

Third Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Jerry Denny	5	1881	1885	8.1
Bill Hague	2	1878	1879	1.3

First Base	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Joe Start	7	1879	1885	20.1

Manager	Yrs	First	Last	mPts
Frank Bancroft	2	1884	1885	12.0
George Wright	1	1879	1879	7.4
Harry Wright	2	1882	1883	3.5
Tom York	2	1878	1881	1.8
Mike Dorgan	1	1880	1880	1.0
John Ward	1	1880	1880	0.5

Catcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Barney Gilligan	5	1881	1885	7.3
Emil Gross	3	1879	1881	5.7
Lew Brown	3	1878	1881	2.6
Sandy Nava	3	1882	1884	-1.4

Starting Pitcher	Yrs	First	Last	WAR
Charley Radbourn	5	1881	1885	54.6
John Ward	5	1878	1882	28.7
Charlie Sweeney	3	1882	1884	7.2
George Bradley	1	1880	1880	4.9
Dupee Shaw	1	1885	1885	3.1
Bobby Mathews	2	1879	1881	0.7

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The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".

Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James