Major League Baseball Final Standings
National League | |||||
Rank | Club | Wins | Losses | Win % | GB |
1st | Chicago White Stockings | 52 | 14 | .788 | – |
2nd | Hartford Dark Blues | 47 | 21 | .691 | 6.0 |
3rd | St. Louis Brown Stockings | 45 | 19 | .703 | 6.0 |
4th | Boston Red Caps | 39 | 31 | .557 | 15.0 |
5th | Louisville Grays | 30 | 36 | .455 | 22.0 |
6th | New York Mutuals | 21 | 35 | .375 | 26.0 |
7th | Philadelphia Athletics | 14 | 45 | .237 | 34.5 |
8th | Cincinnati Reds | 9 | 56 | .138 | 42.5 |
Read more about this topic: 1876 Major League Baseball Season
Famous quotes containing the words major, league, baseball and/or final:
“Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.”
—Leo V. Gordon, U.S. screenwriter, and Arthur Hiller. Major Craig (Rock Hudson)
“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles that the mention of womens baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?”
—Darlene Mehrer, As quoted in Women in Baseball. Ch. 6, by Gai Ingham Berlage (1994)
“The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)