This season disaster continue today (10/08) with a fourth team ceasing its operation since may.

This time the victim is Middletown who was a too small market to compete with bigger one like Boston, Philadelphia or New York. Except for John Clapp and Jim O'Rourke none of the players were more than average and the team got 10 wins in 24 games.

Eddie Booth (Brooklyn, Atlantics) is the only team member who will continue the season with a new club.

It's the only question coming to the mind today when we see a third team closing its book this season. Another founding member of the league (Troy, Haymakers) struggling with financial difficulties disapear today (07/24).

The Haymakers in two seasons were unable to reach a winning record (23 wins - 31 losses - .426) wich didn't help to bring in the crowd to the stand.

Most of the team members were able to secure a new jobs.

Doug Allison (Brooklyn, Eckfords)...

A little bit more than a month later it's the end of the professional baseball in Washington. This is now an evidence that awarding the city a second franchise was a bad idea... First a winning team wasn't able to survive and now the new franchise is disband.

The Nationals were unable to reach any success as shown by their record (2 wins in 11 games).

Not a single player was able to secure a spot with one of the remainning nine teams to end the season.

Even if the league confidence in the Washington market was high enough last winter to gave a second franchise to the city it was too much for this market.

Today (05/23) was the end of the Washington Olympics. The team did survive two years and got a winning record (22 wins - 19 losses).

Some of the team players were able to sign with a new team following the disbandment of the franchise.

Asa Brainard (Middletown)
John W. Glenn (Washington, Nationals)...

After a first season it is now evident that a professional league of baseball is a viable option. But sadly it was not viable for all the markets as three teams didn't survive after this season...

Fort Wayne had a lot of financial difficulty as the attendance was low wich brought a biggest problem as the players were poorly paid and many of them leaved the team. The team wasn't able to recover and played its last game the august 29 (a 7 to 6 win against Troy).

Rockford...