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Anthony McQuide

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  • Series: Pioneer Portraits I: 1850-1874
  • City: Lansingburgh
  • Team: Union of Lansingburgh
  • League: National Association (NABBP)

Anthony McQuide is another Unions of Lansingburgh (Troy Haymakers) mystery man. With James McCune (McKeon), this is a player who appears in a team photo of the Hudson Valley team in 1866. Team records show a Peter McCune on an early roster and, similarly, there is an Andrew McQuade on the Haymakers/Unions. Whether these are James and Anthony is unknown.

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James McCune

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  • Series: Pioneer Portraits I: 1850-1874
  • City: Lansingburgh
  • Team: Union of Lansingburgh
  • League: National Association (NABBP)

James McCune (McKeon?) information unknown. McCune is a mystery man to Ars Longa. His sole surviving portrait shows a Unions of Lansingburgh uniform. Ars Longa finds a reference to a Peter McCune on Troy Haymakers in 1870. A photo of him appears in the book Players and Teams of the National Association, 1871-1875.

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Bub McAtee

First Base
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  • Series: Pioneer Portraits I: 1850-1874
  • City: Lansingburgh
  • Team: Union of Lansingburgh
  • League: National Association (NABBP)

Michael James McAtee (1845-1876) played 2 yrs in the Nat’l Assoc for the Chicago White Stockings (1871) and his home town Troy Haymakers (1872). He was a good fielding first baseman with an overall batting average of .249. Played SS for the amateur Haymakers when they surprised the mighty Mutuals in 1866.

  • The Great Fire in 1871 destroyed the White Stockings stadium, ending play for 2 years
  • McAtee died at age 31, attended by 4 surviving teammates of the 1866 triumph
  • His Tribune obituary said: “As a ball-tosser he was reliable, always striving his best to win; as a boy he was generous to a fault, respected by all who knew him”

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Steve King

Outfield
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  • Series: Pioneer Portraits I: 1850-1874
  • City: Lansingburgh
  • Team: Union of Lansingburgh
  • League: National Association (NABBP)

Stephen F. King (1842-1895) was a lifelong resident of Lansingburgh NY and played for the Troy Haymakers (aka Unions of Lansingburgh) as an amateur and two years (1871-72) as a professional when his team became part of the new National Association. He was an outfielder who played 54 MLB games, driving in 54 runs and batting .353. Why this outstanding player left the game so quickly isn’t known.

  • As part of the upstart 1866 team, embarrassed the powerful NY Mutuals in an exhibition game, foreshadowing the competitiveness that was emerging in baseball following the Civil War

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Bill Craver

Second Base
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  • Series: Pioneer Portraits I: 1850-1874
  • City: Lansingburgh
  • Team: Union of Lansingburgh
  • League: National Association (NABBP)

William Craver (1844-1901): disabled Civil War vet, policeman, and manager of his teams while still in his early 20s. Hardly the resume for a crook, yet in ’77 Craver was ousted from the NL in perhaps the biggest gambling scandal to rock the game in an already freebooting era.

  • His case was hurt by an earlier expulsion for gambling in ‘71
  • Always a strong hitter, had a .291 career batting average for 7 teams
  • Craver’s Louisville Grays tanked in his fateful season including an 8 game losing streak

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