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Britt is supposed to have pitched a little for the Atlantics as early as 1870. I have a note from the Brooklyn Eagle showing that by the beginning of September, 1873 it was known he would be at liberty the next season, and he was included in a number of players available for a newly forming professional club to be based in New York (it fell through). In 1874 he pitched for the Nameless, a semipro Brooklyn club of the first rank that, depending on your perspective, either had one of the best team names ever or didn't have a name at all. Henry Chadwick of the Eagle commented in December, 1874 that he had not pitched as well for the Nameless as he had previously for Atlantic.
In February, 1875 Britt was reported before the season as having signed with the NA club New Haven Elm City as second pitcher and general substitute. Serving as a substitute for Elm City would have been about as unimpressive a job as you could get by professional baseball standards. For some reason, he doesn't seem to have played for Elm City, though. By 1878 at the latest he was living in San Francisco.
Those Atlantic teams he played for had very bad records, but looking at them more closely I now realize that in general terms their rosters were really pretty respectable, and the infield defense was very strong for the most part. A pitcher couldn't ask for much more than Ferguson, Dehlman and Burdock could give him. With due consideration to his age, I ahve to say the likeliest explanation for the Atlantics' propensity to give up runs was Britt's pitching.
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