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 Rh they having the best of the record through winning a majority of their series of games with the Brooklyn club.

A conspicuous fault of the Cincinnati management in 1893 was too much experimenting with players, especially in regard to the batteries of the team. Nine pitchers alone were tried during the season, and the result was lack of team work in the battery force, while the changes made in the fielding teams of the club also had a demoralizing effect. If a club enters the arena new to League experience, of course it becomes a necessity that its first campaign should be an experimental one; but this was not the case with the Cincinnati club in 1893, and, therefore, most of the experimental work in making up the team should have been confined to the opening month of the season. To continue it up to the last month of the campaign was a costly blunder.

Here is the Cincinnati's record in full: