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1865’S STAR PLAYERS NAMED
KNICKERBOCKER LEADS WITH SIX SELECTIONS; GAME TO BE HELD OUTSIDE OF N.Y.C. FOR 1ST TIME

NEW YORK CITY (July 17, 1865) - Final votes have been tabulated, and with that the rosters for the 1865 All-Star game were named at N.B.B.O. headquarters this afternoon. Once again, there are thirty men per league who will suit up for the contest that will take place in two weeks’ time:

Rosters for the upcoming All-Star Game will be thirty men per side again this season:

• Places 1-6 in each team’s roster will go to the best pitchers in each league.
• The remaining 24 roster sports will consist of three players for every other position.

This year’s All-Star Game will take place outside of the Elysian Fields for the first time. It was not originally part of the plan for this year’s game, but the N.B.B.O. Executive Committee decided while sending voting forms out that St. John’s should be honored in some way for having won half of the first eight Tucker-Wheaton Cups. So, the contest will be held at Providence’s Olneyville Field on July 31st.

The 1865 All-Star Game will feature 26 first-timers and three N.B.B.O. newcomers. For the New York League, the big-name debut is probably that of James Goodman, as “The Little Professor” has finally come good after eight years of struggling to master his unusual pitching repertoire. Royal Altman & Fred Richards are the two marquee debuts for the Northeastern League, as the two five-star Alleghany newcomers have been every bit as good as promised.

Given that their record is 45-10, it should come as no surprise that Knickerbocker has set an All-Star Game record with six players nominated. They and Kings County are the two teams with two starters: P John McGowan & 3B Hugh Harris for Knickerbocker; 1B Cormack Alexander & CF Declan Brice for Kings Co.

Rosters for the 1865 All-Star Game, with starters highlighted in red, are as follows:


NEW YORK LEAGUE ROSTERS

P: Jim Creighton (EXC/4th) – 19-10, 2.36 ERA, 95 K, 6.9 WAR
P: Peadar Daly (KNI/New) – 22-6, 2.61 ERA, 22 K, 4.2 WAR
P: James Goodman (MIN/1st) – 20-9, 2.69 ERA, 86 K, 6.5 WAR
P: Giorgio Imperiale (ORA/1st) – 16-8, 3.05 ERA, 38 K, 4.1 WAR
P: John McGowan (KNI/6th) – 21-4, 2.21 ERA, 27 K, 3.9 WAR
P: Grover Wright (CON/5th) – 15-8, 2.81 ERA, 28 K, 3.2 WAR

C: Marshall Hickson (VIC/1st) – .360, 16 XBH, 38 RBI, 1.6 WAR
C: Wilbert Schrader (KNI/2nd) – .315, 8 XBH, 33 RBI, 1.2 WAR
C: Ruby Watson (EXC/3rd) – .382, 15 XBH, 30 RBI, 2.2 WAR

1B: Cormack Alexander (K.C./2nd) – .379, 17 XBH, 53 RBI, 2.1 WAR
1B: Hawk Peterson (ORA/2nd) – .351, 24 XBH, 49 RBI, 2.0 WAR
1B: Leroy Weld (UNI/4th) – .346, 24 XBH, 49 RBI, 1.8 WAR
2B: Anderson MacGyver (MUT/4th) – .333, 26 XBH, 56 RBI, 31 SB, 1.9 WAR
2B: Art Mauser (F.C/2nd) – .365, 24 XBH, 40 RBI, 2.2 WAR
2B: Mathius Wirtz (MIN/1st) – .319, 15 XBH, 30 RBI, 51 SB, 2.1 WAR
3B: Hugh Harris (KNI/1st) – .320, 30 XBH, 47 RBI, 25 SB, 2.0 WAR
3B: Dennis Hunt (EMP/1st) – .356, 18 XBH, 57 RBI, 1.7 WAR
3B: Doire MacDonald (BING/1st) – .350, 18 XBH, 48 RBI, 1.7 WAR
SS: Per-Olaf Bakken (ORA/4th) – .305, 25 XBH, 27 RBI, 21 SB, 1.5 WAR
SS: Edward Huntley (KNI/7th) – .289, 17 XBH, 42 RBI, 27 SB, 2.5 WAR
SS: Will Strausbaugh (EMP/2nd) – .366, 24 XBH, 44 RBI, 2.2 WAR

OF: Luc Billon (GOT/2nd) – .375, 24 XBH, 40 RBI, 2.3 WAR
OF: Ilkka Kivivuori (EMP/3rd) – .360, 12 XBH, 45 RBI, 1.7 WAR
OF: Zarek Polakowski (N.C./3rd) – .350, 19 XBH, 37 RBI, 1.6 WAR
CF: Declan Brice (K.C./5th) – .343, 19 XBH, 56 RBI, 25 SB, 1.7 WAR
CF: Taliesin Buckley (GOT/3rd) – .321, 24 XBH, 50 RBI, 27 SB, 1.6 WAR
CF: Hiram Majors (ATL/2nd) – .335, 19 XBH, 24 RBI, 34 SB, 2.4 WAR
OF: Jasper Carrell (UTI/1st) – .301, 15 XBH, 22 RBI, 48 SB, 2.0 WAR
OF: James Hoyt (KNI/2nd) – .339, 27 XBH, 39 RBI, 1.9 WAR
OF: Uwe Schneider (EXC/1st) – .363, 24 XBH, 41 RBI, 29 SB, 2.1 WAR


NORTHEASTERN LEAGUE ROSTERS

P: Robert Dozier (T.U/1st) – 19-6, 2.47 ERA, 33 K, 3.5 WAR
P: Harold Foutch (PORT/1st) – 17-9, 3.32 ERA, 32 K, 2.6 WAR
P: Robert Hulcy (G.M/1st) – 16-8, 2.58 ERA, 27 K, 3.0 WAR
P: Charlie Mitchell (S.o.t.O/1st) – 18-8, 3.02 ERA, 43 K, 2.8 WAR
P: Fred Richards (ALL/New) – 16-11, 2.45 ERA, 20 K, 3.7 WAR
P: Rainer v.d. Hout (SHA/1st) – 17-8, 3.47 ERA, 25 K, 3.0 WAR

C: Lorenzo Bradford (M.B/1st) – .321, 8 XBH, 35 RBI, 1.1 WAR
C: James Ellis (OLY/1st) – .310, 9 XBH, 29 RBI, 0.9 WAR
C: Joe Feuerstein (PORT/5th) – .298, 18 XBH, 36 RBI, 1.4 WAR

1B: Jesse Johnson (QUI/1st) – .372, 16 XBH, 33 RBI, 1.9 WAR
1B: William Robbins (M.B/1st) – .362, 16 XBH, 42 RBI, 1.4 WAR
1B: Roscoe Turner (M.M/1st) – .375, 19 XBH, 46 RBI, 1.8 WAR
2B: Albert Gore (S.o.t.O/4th) – .355, 21 XBH, 56 RBI, 22 SB, 2.2 WAR
2B: Willard Krone (P.J/2nd) – .313, 15 XBH, 53 RBI, 1.5 WAR
2B: Ernest Lewis (QUI/2nd) – .323, 22 XBH, 34 RBI, 1.7 WAR
3B: Walter Dudley (P.J./2nd) – .365, 16 XBH, 45 RBI, 1.9 WAR
3B: Samuel Kessler (ALL/7th) – .360, 24 XBH, 51 RBI, 2.3 WAR
3B: Enda Reed (M.M/2nd) – .382, 21 XBH, 46 RBI, 2.2 WAR
SS: Albert Brock (S.o.t.O/1st) – .290, 15 XBH, 24 RBI, 30 SB, 2.6 WAR
SS: William Gillette (SHA/1st) – .336, 7 XBH, 35 RBI, 1.7 WAR
SS: Anthony Mascherino (G.M./7th) – .291, 16 XBH, 36 RBI, 24 SB, 2.6 WAR

OF: Royal Altman (ALL/New) – .318, 25 XBH, 59 RBI, 24 SB, 1.7 WAR
OF: Thomas Maloney (SHA/5th) – .407, 19 XBH, 46 RBI, 27 SB, 3.4 WAR
OF: Nelson Townsend (STJ/3rd) – .367, 22 XBH, 46 RBI, 40 SB, 2.6 WAR
CF: Willie Davis (AME/7th) – .378, 29 XBH, 47 RBI, 23 SB, 3.4 WAR
CF: Gregersen Rorhmann (Q.S/1st) – .374, 18 XBH, 41 RBI, 2.7 WAR
CF: Arthur Waltrip (ALL/5th) – .379, 27 XBH, 31 RBI, 25 SB, 3.1 WAR
OF: Konrad Jensen (STJ/5th) – .336, 13 XBH, 44 RBI, 60 SB, 2.8 WAR
OF: Tibor Racz (M.B/1st) – .369, 18 XBH, 40 RBI, 2.0 WAR
OF: Luther Tatum (SHA/2nd) – .333, 29 XBH, 52 RBI, 1.6 WAR

The following players will be making their first All-Star Game appearances:

NEW YORK LEAGUE ALL-STAR DEBUTS

• P: Peadar Daly, James Goodman, Giorgio Imperiale
• C: Marshall Hickson
• IF: Hugh Harris, Dennis Hunt, Doire MacDonald, Mathius Wirtz
• OF: Jasper Carrell, Uwe Schneider
• TOTAL: 10 All-Star Debuts

NORTHEASTERN LEAGUE ALL-STAR DEBUTS

• P: All six pitchers are making their All-Star Game debuts
• C: Lorenzo Bradford, James Ellis
• IF: Albert Brock, William Gillette, Jesse Johnson, William Robbins, Roscoe Turner
• OF: Royal Altman, Tibor Racz, Gregersen Rohrmann
• TOTAL: 16 All-Star Debuts

Every one of the six pitchers representing the Northeastern League will be going to the All-Star Game for the first time, and that is why the N.E.L. has a record sixteen debutantes. Not that the pitchers do not deserve selection. It has been a banner year for new and unheralded pitchers in the league, and if selection were to be expanded further then 21-year-old Elmer Seabold might have been included as he leads the N.E.L. in strikeouts & W.A.R. but has a slightly high E.R.A. and a middling record.

There are three newcomers in this year’s All-Star Game: Royal Altman, Peadar Daly, & Fred Richards. The three first-year players are representing the two best teams in the N.B.B.O: Knickerbocker (Daly) & Alleghany (Altman, Richards).

It will be an exciting afternoon two Mondays from now as the base ball world comes to Providence to celebrate the city’s status as the new center of baseball after more than eight and half years of the N.B.B.O, the fans will be able to see the best players in the sport, and as always it will be a wonderful night for charity.