• Card series: 1880s: Diamond Duos
• City: Boston
• Team: Beaneaters
• League: National League
• Hall: National Baseball Hall of Fame

Old Hoss Radbourn:

Charles Gardner Radbourn (1854-1897). An elite pitcher for 5 teams over 12 seasons, Radbourn owns the single-season Wins record with either 59 or 60 (sources vary) in 1884 – the year in which he became baseball’s 2nd triple Crown winner with 441 Ks & a 1.38 ERA. In 1884, Radbourn started 40 of his team’s last 43 games and won 36 of them. In the 1884 World Series, Radbourn started and won all three games, giving up only 3 runs. Including the postseason, Old Hoss won 62-63 games in 1884 and threw over 700 innings.

• NL Triple Crown: 1884
• NL Wins champ: 1883, 1884
• 309 career Wins
• Pitched no-hitter: 1883
• Elected to Hall of Fame: 1939

Billy Nash:

William Mitchell Nash (1865-1929) made one invaluable contribution to baseball: he scouted & recruited Napoleon Lajoie, bringing him to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1896. By that time, Nash had mostly played out his ML career as a steady-hitting 3rd baseman for the Boston Beaneaters. He compiled a respectable .275 lifetime average and, in 1895, was declared by Sporting Life magazine “the best fielding third baseman in the League.” Traded for future Hall of Famer Billy Hamilton to the Phillies, Nash was player-manager when he found Lajoie who was pounding the ball for the Fall River Indians in the New England League.

• Nash broke into the majors with his hometown Richmond Virginians of the old AA in 1884 before finding a home wih the NL Beaneaters
• Best year was 1887: .295 AVG with 84 RBI
• Bill James ranks Nash 49th amongst third basemen all-time
• Sporting Life touted his $7500 compensation in ’91 as money well-spent