The 1888 World Series was an end-of-the-year professional baseball season championship playoff series between the National League champion New York Giants and the old American Association champion St. Louis Browns.

The Giants won, 6 games to 4. Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe went 4–0.

This was the Browns' last appearance in a championship tournament and pre-modern-era World Series, the last of their four consecutive AA pennants. The club would later join the NL in 1892 and be renamed as the St. Louis Cardinals by 1900. It would be 1926 before they would win their next league pennant.

Game summary [ edit ]

Game 1 [ edit ]

October 16, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 New York Giants 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 x 2 2 4 Win: Tim Keefe (1–0) Loss: Silver King (0–1) Home Runs: none

Game 2 [ edit ]

October 17, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 4 New York Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 Win: Elton Chamberlain (1–0) Loss: Mickey Welch (0–1) Home Runs: none

Game 3 [ edit ]

October 18, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 5 New York Giants 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 x 4 5 2 Win: Tim Keefe (2–0) Loss: Silver King (0–2) Home Runs: none

Game 4 [ edit ]

October 19, 1888, at Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E New York Giants 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 8 2 St. Louis Browns 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 7 4 Win: Ed Crane (1–0) Loss: Elton Chamberlain (1–1) Home Runs: none

Game 5 [ edit ]

October 20, 1888, at Polo Grounds in New York City; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E St. Louis Browns 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 5 5 New York Giants 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 9 2 Win: Tim Keefe (3–0) Loss: Silver King (0–3) Home Runs: none

Game 6 [ edit ]

October 22, 1888, at Philadelphia Baseball Grounds in Philadelphia; day game (last World Series game to be played at a neutral site) Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E New York Giants 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 5 12 13 5 St. Louis Browns 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 3 7 Win: Mickey Welch (1–1) Loss: Elton Chamberlain (1–2) Home Runs: none

Game 7 [ edit ]

October 24, 1888, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E New York Giants 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 11 3 St. Louis Browns 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 7 8 3 Win: Silver King (1–3) Loss: Ed Crane (1–1) Home Runs: none

Game 8 [ edit ]

October 25, 1888, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E New York Giants 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 6 11 12 2 St. Louis Browns 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 5 6 Win: Tim Keefe (4–0) Loss: Elton Chamberlain (1–3) Home Runs: Buck Ewing, Mike Tiernan

Game 9 [ edit ]

October 26, 1888, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Missouri; day game Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E New York Giants 0 3 5 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 11 14 5 St. Louis Browns 1 4 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 3 14 15 4 Win: Jim Devlin (1–0) Loss: Bill George (0–1) Home Runs: Tip O'Neill

Game 10 [ edit ]

Series stats [ edit ]

New York Giants [ edit ]

Batting [ edit ]

Pitching [ edit ]

Player G W – L SV GS CG SHO IP H HR BB SO R ER ERA Ed Crane 2 1–1 0 2 2 0 17.0 15 0 6 12 10 4 2.12 Bill George 1 0–1 0 1 1 0 10.0 15 1 3 4 14 8 7.20 Gil Hatfield 1 0–0 0 0 0 0 5.0 12 1 3 2 12 7 12.60 Tim Keefe 4 4–0 0 4 4 0 35.0 18 0 9 30 12 2 0.51 Cannonball Titcomb 1 0–1 0 1 0 0 4.0 5 1 2 2 6 3 6.75 Mickey Welch 2 1–1 0 2 2 0 17.0 10 0 9 2 8 5 2.65 Team Totals 10 6–4 0 10 9 0 88.0 75 3 32 52 62 29 2.97

St. Louis Browns [ edit ]

Batting [ edit ]

Player G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG OBP SLG Jack Boyle 4 18 16 4 7 0 1 0 4 3 2 2 0.438 0.500 0.563 Elton Chamberlain 5 17 13 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 0.000 0.235 0.000 Charlie Comiskey 10 42 41 6 11 1 1 0 3 4 1 1 0.268 0.286 0.341 Jim Devlin 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 Ed Herr 3 11 11 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 0.091 0.091 0.091 Silver King 5 16 15 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0.067 0.125 0.067 Arlie Latham 10 45 40 10 10 0 0 0 3 11 5 6 0.250 0.333 0.250 Harry Lyons 5 18 17 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 0.118 0.167 0.118 Tommy McCarthy 10 41 41 10 10 1 0 1 9 6 0 0 0.244 0.244 0.341 Jocko Milligan 8 28 25 5 10 2 1 0 4 0 3 3 0.400 0.464 0.560 Tip O'Neill 10 43 37 8 9 1 0 2 11 0 6 3 0.243 0.349 0.432 Yank Robinson 10 42 36 7 9 2 1 0 7 2 6 12 0.250 0.357 0.361 Bill White 10 38 35 4 5 1 0 0 4 1 3 6 0.143 0.211 0.171 Team Totals 10 362 330 60 75 8 4 3 46 29 32 52 0.227 0.296 0

Pitching [ edit ]

Player G W – L SV GS CG SHO IP H HR BB SO R ER ERA Elton Chamberlain 5 2–3 0 5 5 1 44.0 52 3 16 13 36 26 5.32 Jim Devlin 1 1–0 0 0 0 0 7.0 5 0 2 5 3 2 2.57 Silver King 5 1–3 0 5 4 0 35.0 37 0 9 12 23 9 2.31 Team Totals 10 4–6 0 10 9 1 86.0 94 3 27 30 62 37 3.87