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The 1899 Cleveland Spiders season was the team's 13th and final season in Major League Baseball (MLB), and their 11th season in the National League (NL). The Spiders' team owners, the Robison family, also owned the St. Louis Perfectos. To strengthen the Perfectos, they transferred the Spiders' best players to St. Louis before the season ...
The Cleveland Spiders were an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. The team competed at the major league level from 1887 to 1899, first for two seasons as a member of the now-defunct American Association (AA), followed by eleven seasons in the National League (NL).
Edward William "Eddie" Kolb (July 20, 1880 – October 1, 1949) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher from Cincinnati, Ohio, who pitched one game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. [1] The Spiders that season were a horrible team, compiling a historically low win–loss record of 20–134. [2]
The 1899 was the final season of a stable 12-team, eight-season run which saw no expansion or contraction of teams. Following the end of the season, the National League contracted from 12 to 8 teams, eliminating the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Spiders, Louisville Colonels, and Washington Senators.
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders (remember them?) hold the overall record for losses when the then National League team finished with an abysmal 20-134 record. The Spiders won just one of the team’s ...
The one team the White Sox will not surpass is the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who posted a record of 20-134, for a "winning" percentage of .130.
The Cleveland Spiders hold the overall record, going 20-134 in 1899. The White Sox broke the mark of 120 set by the New York Mets in 1962 in their first season. White Sox lose post-1900s, majors ...
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean expectation based on the Spiders' results and the current 162-game schedule ...