{"id":104894,"date":"2026-01-21T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/?page_id=104894"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:28:47","slug":"union-association-1884","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/union-association-1884\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Association (1884)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tombstone<\/h2>\n
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Formed:\u00a0<\/strong>September 12, 18831<\/a><\/sup>World of Sports: A New Baseball Association Formed at Pittsburg, via telegraph to\u00a0The Ottawa Daily Citizen<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Sep. 13, 1883<\/span>
\nDisbanded:\u00a0<\/strong>January 1885<\/p>\n

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First<\/strong> Games:\u00a0<\/strong>April 17, 1884
\n<\/strong>Last Games:\u00a0<\/strong>October 19, 1884<\/p>\n

Seasons: <\/strong>1
\nStates: <\/strong>10(DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, MN, MO, OH, PA, WI)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>

Leadership<\/h2>\n
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Trophy Case<\/h2>\n
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Union Association Franchise List<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Franchise<\/strong><\/th>Years Active<\/strong><\/th>Championsships<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Altoona Mountain Citys<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baltimore Monumentals<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston Reds<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chicago Browns\/Pittsburgh Stogies<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cincinnati Outlaw Reds<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kansas City Cowboys<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milwaukee Brewers<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Philadelphia Keystones<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St. Louis Maroons<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
St. Paul Saints<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Washington Nationals (UA)<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wilmington Quicksteps<\/td>1884<\/span><\/td>NONE<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Formed:\u00a0September 12, 1883 Disbanded:\u00a0January 1885   First Games:\u00a0April 17, 1884 Last Games:\u00a0October 19, 1884 Seasons: 1 States: 10(DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, MN, MO, OH, PA, WI)   Union Association Franchise List<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":104897,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"sport":[25326],"class_list":["post-104894","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sport-baseball"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110205,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104894\/revisions\/110205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwhileitlasted.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=104894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}