Sorry to bother you with this, but in 1891 Mickey Welch pitched 14 CGs, of which he won 5 and lost 9. The MLB.com, baseball-reference.com, and retrosheet.org...
Dan: The 1892 Spalding Guide showed Welch with 5-11 for the 1891 season. He was 1-4 vs Boston, 2-1 vs Brooklyn, 0-2 vs Cincinnati, 0-1 vs Cleveland, 0-3 vs...
I apologize for asking about yet another W-L decision from long, long ago, but, well, I want to try to understand the rationale behind awarding these Ws and...
Per ICI, Mullane got the win in this game (toward a season record of 23-26). Radbourn's sheet shows a 10-13 record, but there is another win pencilled in for...
... Radbourn 1891 is 11-13 in the first edition Baseball Encyclopedia, so the handwritten note is incorporated. Is that generally true of the handnotes that...
I checked the ICI sheets on this issue. Unfortunately, it only clouded things more than they were. It would have been helpful if JP had mentioned the date of...