It took ten years, but Baltimore finally became the first team outside the New York area to win the American Cup!
A word about Dooley McDoolan: the real McDoolan (first name unknown) pitched exactly one game in his MLB career. On April 14, 1873, McDoolan took the mound for the Maryland club of Baltimore against Washington, allowing only three earned runs...and 21
unearned runs, on 18 hits (and God knows how many errors). The Marylands club played only five more games, losing them all (often by ugly scores as 20-0 and 35-1), and then folded.
I gave McDoolan the whimsical first name of "Dooley", assuming he would fade away as quickly as he did in real life...instead he's become one of the AA's most reliable hurlers, twice leading the league in ERA and forging a 92-90 mark with mostly mediocre New Haven teams. (Ya never know, do ya...?)