• Card series: Pioneer Portraits II: 1875-1899
• City: Buffalo
• Team: Bisons
• League: National League

Charles Joseph Foley (1856-1898) was a versatile Irishman with the Boston Redcaps & Buffalo Bisons over six seasons, playing OF, 1B & pitching. Foley was an early & tragic victim of the reserve clause. Already impaired by rheumatism, he was run out of the game by management who saw a faker & would neither play nor release him.

• First batter to hit for the cycle (in 1882)
• Participated in the first duel of left-handers, versus Bobby Mitchell of Cleveland, July 19, 1879
• Cited by John Montgomery Ward as a prime example of the abuses of the reserve clause